Mascardi DMS

Mascardi Cars sells premium pre-owned cars from showrooms in Spring Valley and Lavington, Nairobi. Every sale touches leads, test drives, trade-ins, financing, paperwork and the workshop, and all of it was spread across spreadsheets, phones and WhatsApp. I built the system that ties it together.

What I built

• CRM. Leads, a 360° customer view, test drives, tasks and follow-ups.
• Vehicle inventory. Stock numbers, pricing and photos, publishing to the public website, and transfers between branches.
• Deal desk. Deals with trade-ins, logbook status, F&I products and finance applications tracked to approval.
• Workshop and parts. Service bookings, job cards, parts, suppliers and purchase orders.
• Money and documents. A payments ledger for cash, card, M-Pesa and bank transfers, with PDF invoices and statements.
• Data protection. Consent, export and erasure workflows for Kenya's Data Protection Act, plus a full audit log.

Under the hood

A pnpm monorepo with a SvelteKit admin app (Svelte 5, Tailwind 4, shadcn-svelte, LayerChart) and a Cloud Functions backend on Node 24: 120 transactional operations and 12 scheduled jobs, all validated with Zod. Thirteen roles are scoped to branches through custom claims, and Firestore security rules are generated from a shared registry, so the UI, API and rules can't drift apart. Public read models feed the website, Algolia powers search, and emulator-based tests cover the backend.

Where it stands

The system covers sales, finance and the workshop end to end and is running in staging. Payment gateway, e-signature and messaging integrations are planned for go-live.