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Production Tracker

Domino's-style status tracker for custom 8–14 week production. Stage emails + portal + workshop photos.

For custom stone orders with 8–14 week lead times, the Production Tracker shows exactly where the order is in production: quarry extraction, block selection, fabrication, quality check, container packing, shipping, customs clearance, delivery. Each stage triggers an email and adds a workshop photo.

METRIC60–70%fewer CS inquiries
FLOW07stages · soup to nuts
STACK03technologies on the bench
STATELIVErunning in production
N°01Anatomy

The flow.

7 stages from first touch to closed loop. The system runs this path autonomously; the operator only sees the result at the end.

  1. quarry
  2. fabrication
  3. QC
  4. container
  5. shipping
  6. customs
  7. door
ENTRYquarryEXITdoorMODEAUTONOMOUS

What the theme would not hold.

ustom stone orders with 10-week lead times generate enormous customer service overhead — weekly emails asking where the order is. The Production Tracker eliminates that overhead by making production status visible. Brands using this see CS inquiry volume drop 60–70% for custom orders.

N°03Technical surface

How it is actually built.

The stack is on the bench, the wiring is documented, and the instance you ship with is yours to extend after handover.

ON THE BENCH
  • 01Shopify Flow
  • 02n8n
  • 03Custom App
3 layers · all yours after handover

Production stages stored as order metafields. Stage transitions triggered by n8n workflows that receive webhooks from the workshop management system. Each transition fires a transactional email via Shopify Email (or Klaviyo). Customer portal page reads order metafields via Storefront API.

DELIVERED WITH

Full source · architecture diagram · workflow exports · runbooks · the keys to every credential the system uses.

N°04The compound

What this system compounds.

N°06Next step

Want this — or one shaped to your case?

Every engagement starts with a paid discovery. We map your case against the rack and tell you which systems fit, which get adapted, and what is genuinely new.