A live Astro/static website for Alaska ATV Rentals that acts as the clean decision layer for an ATV/UTV rental fleet — routing every rental choice to the right Xola checkout, and the complicated cases to a human.
Part of Alaska Backcountry AccessThe business
Alaska ATV Rentals lets customers choose between self-guided pickup rentals (one to five days, or longer custom trips) and delivered trailhead packages. Xola handles scheduling, checkout, and payments. The problem was everything before checkout: helping a visitor pick the right vehicle, duration, and option without confusion.
The real problem
Rental choices multiply fast — vehicle × duration × pickup-versus-delivered — and a generic website turns that into a maze. Long custom rentals involve trailers, deposits, and custom pricing that genuinely need a conversation. And fleet reality changes: when a vehicle is out of service, it must disappear from the customer's view entirely without anyone editing page layouts.
My responsibility
Design and build of the entire decision layer: the site architecture, the booking-data model that drives it, the routing logic into Xola checkout, the rules for what customers never see — and ongoing maintenance now that it is live.
What was built
01
The website is a decision layer, not a booking engine. Customers make two or three clear choices and land on exactly the right Xola checkout — the site never handles money, availability calendars, or payments.
02
Pickup vehicles across one-to-five-day durations map to direct Xola checkout links — each choice goes straight to the correct pre-configured checkout instead of a generic catalog.
03
Rentals of six days or more involve custom pricing, trailer configurations, and deposits — so that path deliberately opens a text-message conversation with the operator instead of pretending automation can scope it.
04
Every bookable option — price, duration, vehicle, checkout URL — lives in a single data file. Operational notes for the owner live alongside, in a field the site is designed never to render publicly.
05
An unavailable vehicle is flagged once in the data file and disappears from the fleet grid, selectors, and pricing everywhere — while remaining documented internally for when it returns.
06
Delivered trailhead packages filter by location, date, and vehicle so only genuinely available combinations are offered.
System view
Self-guided pickup rental, or a delivered trailhead package.
Only available vehicles are shown; one to five days for direct booking.
1–5 days → direct Xola checkout link (pre-mapped routes)
Six or more days needs trailers, deposits, and custom pricing.
6+ days → opens a text-message conversation with the operator
Scheduling, payment, and confirmation stay in the proven booking backend.
Inspectable proof
Sanitized artifacts show the underlying work without exposing client identities, credentials, private dashboards, or customer data.
Alaska ATV Rentals is live in production: a static Astro booking router that sends each rental choice to the correct Xola checkout. Named with the client's written permission (June 2026).
Visit AlaskaATVRentals.comThe routing model is shown without checkout URLs, prices, phone numbers, or equipment identifiers.
Evidence
AlaskaATVRentals.com is publicly reachable, serving the static Astro build with the fleet grid, duration selectors, and direct Xola checkout routing.
Astro codebase with the bookingData source-of-truth file: per-option pricing, durations, checkout URLs, and the hidden-equipment flag — version-controlled.
Documented decision model: direct 1–5-day checkout routes, the 6+ day SMS gate, and customer-facing hiding of unavailable equipment.
Fleet availability, pricing, and checkout links are kept current in the single data file as the operator's season changes.
Results & current state
The booking decision layer is live, built around one editable data file.
AlaskaATVRentals.com serves the static Astro site in production; routing logic, fleet data, and checkout mapping are live and version-controlled.
Complex bookings route to a human by design.
The 6+ day path intentionally opens SMS — scope decisions stay with the operator instead of a form pretending to price custom trips.
The fleet stays accurate without layout edits.
Availability and pricing live in a single data file; an out-of-service vehicle is flagged once and disappears from every customer-facing choice.
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