WEBSITE DIRECTORY APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FOR CAR AUTOMOTIVE WORKSHOP

Oleh : Vicky Rheza, Evawaty Tanuar, Yohan Limerta

In this modern era, technological development is rapid, not only of the development of gadgets and computers, but developments in the automotive world was also growing rapidly. The owner of the car is greatly increased along with economic growth of our country. The development of automotive is growing rapidly. In 2013, Indonesia had a total of more than 104 million vehicles and its increasing ± 12 percent per year

While the number of vehicles increases, the need of spare parts and accessories of each type of vehicles also increase. This creates an opportunity for people to open a business, not only an offline shop but also an online shop thus otoVista were form.

The need to seek a repair shop is also increased significantly but there are still many automotive workshops that are not visible to the surrounding residents. Many people still prefer an authorized automotive workshop that located far from their location compared to the ordinary automotive workshop. Because of this problem, the customers rarely come to the workshop otoVista except for regular customer.

Issues that will be discussed are how people easily search for the nearest service station and trusted by others as well. There are still many people in Indonesia who do not believe the unofficial automotive workshop or some repair shop that are not seen by people because the location of the repair shop is in a place that is difficult to be reached or visible by people and also when customer come to the repair shop, sometimes some of the repair shop does not provide the services needed by the customer so the customers have to look somewhere else.

If the customer is the first time to place the automotive workshop, certainly they would be having trouble in finding the repair shop location. The time the customer needs will also take longer than it should have. Even more, when the customer finally found the automotive workshop he was looking for is not providing the services that customers wanted.

In general, things like the above will often occur by people in Indonesia. Looking for an automotive workshop that provides services that the customer desired and whether the repair shop can delivered the service and how the services provided by the automotive workshop. It cannot be achieved by simply asking one or two people. Desired location was also very difficult if it is only told by others without clear instructions. That can cause us to ask many times and spent time just for the road trip. Customers surely will feel disappointed and not satisfied with the information given by others that are not accurate.

With the problems as above, surely people would need a more practical solution and accurate compared to asking other people. The main purpose of this application is to make it easy for customers to find the exact location of the automotive workshop as well as the service that are provided by the repair shop. Customers also can easily perform searches based on their location and services needed by the customer. The search will be made as easy and precise as possible so that customers can find the right automotive workshop and there will be user’s review for each repair shop so that other customers can also find out how the review and services of the automotive workshop.