Leasetown
Car leasing and subscription marketplace — live inventory, lease-term pricing, KYC-backed checkout and a protected customer dashboard for managing a subscription end to end. Live at leasetown.hu.
Overview
Financing a car the traditional way is slow and opaque. A subscription model fixes the experience, but it only works if the inventory, pricing, and compliance behind it are actually real-time — not a PDF price list from three weeks ago.
Leasetown is a full marketplace built on Payload CMS. Each car carries its own lease-term × down-payment × mileage-cap pricing matrix rather than a single flat monthly price, and onboarding runs through a KYC document flow gating checkout, ahead of a protected customer dashboard for managing an active subscription end to end.
Features
- Live vehicle catalog with real inventory, manufacturer photography and availability dates
- Per-vehicle pricing resolved from a lease-term × down-payment × mileage-cap matrix
- KYC document upload as part of onboarding, ahead of checkout
- Protected customer dashboard: active subscriptions, billing history, handover scheduling
- Coupon codes and promotional pricing flags
- Proposal workflow for larger fleet/business deals
- Full account system: registration, login, session management
Technologies
- Next.js 15.4 (App Router), React 19
- Payload CMS 3 on Postgres — vehicle catalog, leasing proposals, subscriptions, coupon codes, FAQ/legal/KYC content globals
- better-auth bridged into Payload via payload-auth — session/auth handling
- Radix UI + react-hook-form + zod — accessible forms with schema validation
- DigitalOcean Spaces (S3-compatible) — vehicle photography storage at production scale
- Playwright — end-to-end test suite
- Vitest — integration test suite
- Docker — local/dev environment parity
Technical highlights
- Per-vehicle pricing matrix (term × down payment × mileage) resolved live in the UI as the customer adjusts any variable — a genuine small pricing-engine problem across dozens of cars and multiple term structures
- KYC document flow gating checkout, not bolted on after the fact
- better-auth bridged into Payload via payload-auth for auth ergonomics better-auth provides while staying inside Payload's data layer
- Real end-to-end (Playwright) and integration (Vitest) test coverage — meaningful given real money and real KYC documents are involved
Status
Live at leasetown.hu with real inventory and real customers. 59 commits, actively developed.