Citadine Auto: website for a car consignment dealer in Troyes

How consignment works

The owner leaves the car. Citadine Auto lists it, takes the calls, runs the viewings and test drives, and handles the paperwork. The car stays in the owner’s name until the buyer signs. The dealer earns a share of the sale under a written contract.

The brief

People worry about leaving a car for months with no news, or signing something they don’t understand. So the site answers those questions first. It also says when consignment is the wrong choice. You rarely see that on a sales site, and it makes everything else easier to believe.

The build

• Two doors on the home page: I’m selling, I’m buying.
• A plain comparison of three ways to sell, with time and money for each.
• Live stock: a page per car and a view you spin with a finger.
• Seven steps from first call to bank transfer, and what the contract actually says.
• Paperwork and special cases.
• An admin panel where the dealer adds cars, photos and prices.

For sellers and buyers

A retiree selling a small hatchback reads the steps, sees he won’t get calls from strangers, and phones. A new driver checks today’s stock from home. Both know what to expect before walking in.

Stack and SEO

Plain PHP, installable as a PWA, hosted at O2Switch. Around forty pages written for real searches about selling a car in Troyes, each with its own angle, no copy-paste city pages. Same approach for a garage in Meknes: SEO.