Learn how Touchless uses Meilisearch to deliver fast, faceted inventory search across multi-rooftop dealer marketplaces — with real-time filtering, infinite scroll, and 20-minute dealer onboarding.

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Touchless, a Toronto-based automotive tech company, uses Meilisearch to power vehicle inventory search for large dealer groups. Their marketplace platform serves dealer groups with 3,000–9,000 vehicles per group across ~100 locations. Key reasons for choosing Meilisearch over Algolia include API flexibility, seamless integration with their custom Cloudflare edge-based EXO rendering system, and cost efficiency. Each dealer group gets a dedicated index that spins up in ~100ms, enabling a full live preview in 20 minutes. The result is instant faceted filtering, infinite scroll, and a modern car-shopping experience that drives higher conversion rates.

How Touchless powers instant, scalable vehicle search for large dealer groups

The challenge: large dealer groups need a different kind of search

The solution: Meilisearch via the EXO platform

Implementation: from raw dealer data to live search in 20 minutes

The results: a search experience that sells

Conclusion: the API-first search engine for specialist platforms