FastTrack Room Configurator
Case study
From a spreadsheet and a sales quote to a guided checkout in a few clicks.
AVI-SPL designs and installs audio-visual and collaboration technology for businesses, and sells equipment through its Shopify store. As the in-house web designer on the Internet Marketing team, I designed and built FastTrack: a guided configurator that lets customers choose a pre-configured meeting room and buy it online.
Company
AVI-SPL (in-house)
Tools
Shopify, Liquid, metafields, AI-assisted development
Role
Sole designer and builder
Status
Live on production, public launch pending
The problem
Buying a pre-configured room meant contacting sales, waiting on a manual quote, and going back and forth before anyone could place an order. The only version of the room configurator was an Excel tool owned by another department, with no connection to the store and no path from configuration to purchase.
Turning that spreadsheet into an online tool took months of cross-department meetings to pin down the requirements, the matching logic, and the edge cases, with direct input from the VP of Marketing.
What I built
My manager defined the transactional and back-end requirements. I designed the experience and built the whole Shopify implementation in Liquid and Shopify's data model, using AI to write and debug the code, with no outside developer or agency.
- A multi-step custom Shopify section that guides customers through configuration and ends in a real Shopify checkout and payment
- The spreadsheet's business logic translated into 15+ product metafields: manufacturer, platform, room type, capacity, display specs, pricing tiers, and more
- An upsell that offers installation to any customer who skips it during configuration
- Order routing that sends completed purchases straight to the installation team for fulfillment
A purchase that used to start with a sales call and a manual quote now takes a few clicks.