Products

Geckobyte provides the automotive aftermarket with the tools necesary to be successful online. Below are only some of the tools that Geckobyte offers, which will enable you to be more competitive in the online marketplace. We also provide custom solutions tailored to fit the needs of your company.

Web Sites

Custom

For dealers looking for a custom designed site and tools set, Geckobyte has the most extensive industry experience and the broadest toolset base available in the industry. If you can dream it, Geckobyte can build it, host it and maintain it.

Templated

Geckobyte offers a wide variety of web site packages to fit any budget. The web sites are predesigned and offer a defined set of features and tools. The sites come with easy to use administrative tools for customizing your site – from adding images and updating coupons to launching new pages and services. The sites are cost effective and very powerful.

Locators

Whether there are 5 locations or 20,000, Geckobyte's dealer locator products easily integrate into existing web sites, or into new designs. Maps, driving directions, custom map icons, and Client specific logic when returning results make Geckobyte's locator products superior.

Tire & Wheel Fitment Tools

GeckFit, the industry's most comprehensive tire and wheel data set power Geckobyte's Tire and Wheel Selectors. Geckobyte's Tire and Wheel fitment tools offer clients powerful and customizable lookup functionality and filtering. Selling aftermarket tire and wheel applications has been difficult in the past because of a lack of fitment resources and the complexity of training staff. With GeckFit and Geckobyte's fitment tools, it makes everyone an expert. Geckobyte's tool offer users a variety of search options – by Vehicle, tire or wheel size, OE, OE Optional and Plus Sizing – and creates packages based on the clients inventory. To further focus the search, advanced filtering tools allow users to limit the results by size, brand, finish, and price. Everything needed to sell tire and wheels.

To make getting the started even easier, Geckobyte maintains an extensive library of Tires and Wheels that includes product codes, spec information and images. Saving clients the time of having to generate it.

E-Commerce

40% of all tire and wheel purchases are first researched online and if your web site does not offer the tools consumers are looking for, they will go to a competitors site to find their tires and wheels – most likely making the purchase there as well. By not having these tools, you are loosing sales. Geckobyte's Tire and Wheel e-commerce programs are powered by the industries most comprehensive and accurate tire and wheel fitment data set – GeckFit. Geckobyte's B2C, B2B, eBay and Amazon e-commerce systems include the tools needed for a successful online sales program.

B2C

For most clients, deploying an online store is a way to enhance their retail locations, and not with an eye on becoming the next, large online seller.  By providing customers with the needed tools, product information, pricing, and the option to buy online, the customer is more likely to purchase from you and at your retail location.  The vast majority of tire and wheel buyers purchase in store, but do their research online.  Hundred's of Millions of dollars are of are spent each year buying tires and wheels online – through retailer web sites, eBay Motors and Amazon, and Geckobyte has the tools to help drive some of those sales to you.  Whether you have one location or 500, Geckobyte's technology and tools level the playing field online.

Some of the tools available:

• Search by Vehicle, Brand, and Size
• Filter Results by Brand, Size, and Finish
• OE, OE Optional and Plus Sizing
• Integrated with Geck Product Library
• Shopping Cart or Create a Quote
• Shipping or Dealer Pickup
• Integrated FedEx and UPS Shipping Calculator
• Credit Card Capture or Real-Time Processing

B2B

Geckobyte's Business to Business e-commerce tools allows distributors to easily begin receiving orders online. The secure login that recognizes a dealer and only displays their specific pricing, the search tools (Search by Product Code, Brand, Model, Size, and Vehicle), and the order manager make for an easy to manage and maintain system.

Distributor/Dealer E-Commerce

Distributors are entering the consumer e-commerce world aggressively, and they are doing so by launching sites that push sales to their dealers. In doing so, they do not miss out on the migration to buy online and at the same time, do not alienate their retailers. During the checkout process, the consumer will be asked to choose a retailer to have their order fulfilled. The consumer chooses from a list of dealers based the dealers' proximity to the consumer. If the products are not in the dealer's inventory, the distributor delivers them on their next run. This saves the consumer on shipping charges and makes the purchase more competitive than the mail order sites. The option to ship the product is also available if the buyer is outside of a reasonable proximity to a dealer.

eBay and Amazon

eBay Motors and Amazon collectively are the largest sellers of automotive parts and accessories on the web. For clients looking to begin selling on these marketplaces or increase their current sales, Geckobyte has the tools to make a seller successful. With tools like eBay store template design, embedded eBay store vehicle and size lookup widgets for any type of accessory or part, and the mandatory conversion of tire and wheel data to AAIA ACES and PIES for Amazon. Geckobyte's tools can also be integrated with other seller platforms, so there is no need to abandon your current relationships.

Tire & Wheel Product Library

Geckobyte maintains a library of Tire and Wheel spec information and images. For clients, collecting the tire and wheel spec data and images, is often time consuming and difficult. Geckobyte is continually updating the library and if we do not have a product a client carries, we will work with them to add it to the library. For clients, that means launching and maintaining web sites and tools is faster, easier and less expensive.

GeckFit™ - Tire & Wheel Fitment Data

GeckFit is the most comprehensive tire and wheel fitment data set available in the market today. GeckFit offers OE, OE Optional and Plus Sizing fitments for all vehicles from 2009/2010 – 1992, and a large collection of vehicles dating back to 1967. The data also includes hub ring and nut/bolt specs for creating accurate accessory kits, along with Tire Pressures. For our international clients, GeckFit is available by country and specific regions throughout the World.

GeckFit's Plus Sizing is based on vehicle measurement and is not math based, which assures accuracy. To download a sample of the data, please click here.

Personalized technical support for manufacturers in the design and production of wheels.

GeckFit's database of accurate global vehicle data contains standard OEM wheel and tire references, the brake caliper profiles and the best-fit aftermarket wheel and tire combinations. Over 35 years of wheel design experience enables us to offer Wheel manufacturers an analysis of existing styles and for future projects, the option to outsource technical support or augment internal resources, reducing costs.

All wheel designs are compared against back of spoke section drawings so we can be confident that an accurate fitment guide can be deployed. When coupled with the accessory kit information, GeckFit will maximize sales, reduce costs, and decrease returns and misfitments.

Data Updates

GeckFit is continually updated, and because data is delivered via a web service or within a hosted application, your data is always up to date. New Vehicles are normally added within 60 days of their introduction in dealer showrooms. The exception being rare and exotic vehicles with low production numbers, which are added as they become available for measuring.

3D Vehicle Visualization

Geckobyte has developed a library of 3d models ranging from 1992 – Present Year, which encompasses 20,000 year, makes and models. G3D utilizes the full 3d model within a web based application that allows the user to add tires and wheels, zoom, pan, and rotate the vehicle, change colors, change suspension heights, capture the customized vehicle as an image or screen saver, and much more.

G2D is a 2d, image based application based on renders of 3d models. Clients may choose which angle or angles the vehicles are rendered, paint finishes, lighting, wheel angles, and camera position. Geckobyte offers hosted applications, or the renders are available for client hosting along with fitment web services for those clients looking to provide their own development.

AAIA Powered Web Applications

For clients needing Tire and Wheel fitment information in ACES and PIES, Geckobyte produces not only OE and OE Optional fitments, but Plus Sizing as well. Geckobyte also powers its applications from AAIA vehicle data, and can use your ACES and PIES files to generate ecommerce applications.

Custom Data Sets

For the Clients who wish to offer specialized fitments – tuner, lifted, and custom applications, Geckobyte offers web-based tools to customize GeckFit. Using a web based application; the GeckFit data set can be altered to suit customizations. Those will then be available in Client applications – e-commerce, in store sales tools, etc. Client customized fitments are proprietary and not shared or incorporated into the wider data set.

• Engineering Consulting
• Backside Spacing/X-Factor analysis
• Brake Caliper Drawings