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Online & D2C brands

A full basket
and one unanswered question.

The question asked before checkout is worth more than the one asked after it, and both arrive in the same queue.

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4 specialists lead this workflowOne connected journeyScope confirmed in discovery

Less chasing.
More clarity.

One workspace for enquiries, resolved and follow-ups, with every number reconciling across every view. Open a record to see what was actually decided.

Workspace Overview

Saturday

Before they buy, and after it ships.

Enquiries155Across configured channels
Resolved100Confirmed and in the calendar
Follow-ups21Scheduled and waiting to send
Open handoffs27 resolved · 9 total
Enquiries & resolvedToday, by hour
10:00: 22 enquiries, 14 resolved. 13:00: 31 enquiries, 20 resolved. 16:00: 28 enquiries, 18 resolved. 19:00: 40 enquiries, 26 resolved. 21:00: 34 enquiries, 22 resolved
65%to resolution
Enquiry → resolution100 of 155 enquiries reached a resolution.
A few journeys in motionMost recent first

Where the capacity actually goes.

Online retailers and direct-to-consumer brands handling pre-purchase and post-purchase questions across several channels.

The pre-purchase question waits.

Somebody with a full basket asks whether it will fit. An hour later the basket has gone and nobody knows it was a sale.

Where is my order, all day.

The same question on five channels, each answered separately by a person reading the same screen.

Every channel is somebody else’s job.

Instagram, WhatsApp, site chat and email each receive it, and there is no shared view of what has already been answered.

One request.
Four moves.

One online and D2C brands journey, end to end. Your configuration decides the sequence, the rules and the point a person takes over.

Receive the question on any channel

The question is answered on the channel it arrived on, with the same information and the same tone on all of them.

Answer from approved product information

Sizing, materials, delivery windows and returns policy come from content your team maintains. Nothing about a product is invented.

Check the order status

Where your systems are connected, an order status question is answered from the order record rather than escalated to a person.

Escalate refunds and complaints

Anything touching money or a genuine complaint stops and goes to your team with the order and the full conversation attached.

In focus · UAE e-commerce

More orders. And a question attached to each one.

The UAE e-commerce market was worth AED 27.5 billion in 2023 and is forecast to pass AED 48.8 billion by 2028. Mobile commerce alone reached about AED 14.3 billion, close to four times what it was in 2018. Every order carries a question before it and often another one after it.

Market valueAED 27.5bn

UAE e-commerce in 2023

Forecast for 2028AED 48.8bn

A projection, not a measured figure

Mobile commerceAED 14.3bn

In 2023, near four times the 2018 level

Where your people take over

Refunds, goodwill gestures, complaints and anything touching a payment go to your team. The workforce never issues money.

The human boundary

Questions online and D2C brands ask.

Can it issue a refund?

No. It can explain your published returns policy and start the request, but issuing money, approving a goodwill gesture or making an exception is a decision for your team and transfers to them every time.

Will it invent product details?

It answers from the product information your team supplies and maintains. Where an answer is not in that content it says so and offers to put the customer in front of a person rather than guessing a measurement or a material.

See it working for an online brand like yours.

Bring the enquiries you are missing today. We will map the workflow around them with you, before anything is configured.

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