Flynn's Tire & Auto Service has launched a new
website that allows patrons to select any of the
chain’s 18 retail locations throughout Western
Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio and view the
available inventory and pricing; customers are
shown detailed specifications and high-resolution
360-degree images of the tires.
The system is driven by the ezytire application
from E-Solution Professionals (ESP).
“Our biggest challenge when developing our new
website was keeping inventory and pricing up to
date,” says Joe Flynn III, Flynn’s president,
noting that “ezytire is simple to set up and shows
all our available inventory and pricing right on
our website.”
The program “is used by individual tire stores
through to large retail chains with multiple
locations,” explains Rob Rupert, president of ESP’s
North American division.
“We intentionally developed ezytire to be simple to
set up and maintain,” he continues, adding that it
“can be used as a standalone website or integrated
into an existing website.”
Founded in 2001, ESP focuses exclusively on the
tire industry, according to Rupert, with
applications such as Tireweb, Tirelibrary, ezytire,
Wheelweb and Tirewire. “More than 20 million tires
pass through Tireweb every year, making it the most
widely used B2B e-commerce application for tires,”
he says.
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Flynn’s, which is still family owned and operated,
grew from a single location in Mercer County, Pa.
to multiple locations throughout the Keystone
State, Ohio and New York. It has four warehouses to
cover distribution to other tire retailers, service
stations, car dealers and farm/tractor suppliers in
addition to the company’s own locations.
Goodyear, Dunlop, Kelly, Michelin, BFGoodrich,
Uniroyal, General, Continental, Yokohama, Vogue,
Toyo and Pirelli are among the manufacturers
represented. The company also has a truck tire
retreading division.
“The Flynn family members all participate in the
organization at different levels,” Flynn reports.
“However, Flynn’s Tire considers all of its
associates a part of an extended family and views
them as valued members of the team. In fact, we
believe we have the most knowledgeable, service-
oriented staff anywhere in the tire
business.”
For more information, visit w3ww.flynnstire.com, www.ezytire.com and www.esprofessionals.com.
