Maton Guitars

Maton Owner App

A direct-to-owner app built on the same record that registers the guitar.

A bare plaster wall in raking daylight, a slim vertical recess lit warm gold

Every Maton now has an owner attached to it. The app turns that record into the owner's own view of their instrument.

Client
Maton Guitars · Melbourne, est. 1946
Discipline
Mobile · DTC · Lifecycle
My role
Product definition · Architecture · Delivery
Status
Shipped
01

The challenge

The relationship ended at the factory door

Maton knew its dealers. It did not know its owners. Once an instrument shipped, there was no record connecting it to the person playing it, and no channel to reach them that did not run through a retailer.

02

What we built

The instrument, in the owner's pocket

Registry

My guitars

Every instrument the owner has registered, with model detail and warranty status in one place.

Identity

One account, two surfaces

The same owner record signs in to the app and to the shop, so a guitar registered in one appears in the other.

Service

Direct routes to support

Authorised service partners and warranty claims reached from the instrument itself, not a contact form.

Shop

My Guitars in the storefront

A customer-account extension putting the same registry inside the Shopify account area.

03

How it works

No integration, because there is nothing to integrate

The app does not hold its own copy of anything. It reads the same master data the warranty pipeline writes, and so does the storefront. A guitar registered in the app appears in the shop account area with no code connecting those two systems.

Adding the storefront later required no change to the app at all.

The test of an architecture is what it makes free.