AI Agent for E-Commerce Order Support (Shopify & Beyond)
An AI agent that looks up a real order, checks tracking, and handles refunds/exchanges within set limits — instead of a customer waiting on a generic support queue.
How it works
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The problem this solves
Online order support is one of the highest-volume, most repetitive support categories that exists — “where’s my order,” “I want to return this,” “can I change my shipping address.” Every one of those questions has a real, specific answer sitting in the store’s order data already; the friction is entirely in a customer having to wait for a person to go look it up.
Why this category specifically, right now
This isn’t a hypothetical growth story — AI-driven order volume on Shopify grew roughly 15x between January 2025 and January 2026, and AI-referred shoppers are converting meaningfully better than average. That’s not a claim about Tunovix’s own results; it’s the market context for why this specific pattern is worth building now rather than a generic “we could add a chatbot someday” — customers are already routing through AI-mediated shopping, and the stores without a real agent behind their support are the ones left explaining themselves manually.
What actually happens, step by step
- Customer message arrives — website chat, email, or WhatsApp, whichever channel the store already uses.
- AI agent identifies the order in question (by order number, email, or a couple of clarifying questions) rather than asking the customer to dig up information they may not have handy.
- Order lookup — a real query against Shopify/WooCommerce order data: status, tracking number, line items, payment state.
- Resolve — the agent answers directly (tracking info, policy questions), or takes a scoped action within a set limit: issuing a refund under a dollar threshold, starting an exchange, updating an address before an order ships.
- Human escalation — anything outside the set limits (a refund above the threshold, a damaged-item dispute, anything that needs judgment) hands off with full order context attached.
What it doesn’t do
It doesn’t replace a support team for genuinely hard cases — a damaged item, a fraud dispute, a policy exception — and it shouldn’t be given unlimited refund authority. The scoped-limit design in step 4 is the actual safety mechanism here, not an afterthought: a refund agent with no ceiling is a real financial risk, not a convenience feature.
What this connects to
Shopify or WooCommerce as the order system of record, a helpdesk (Gorgias, Zendesk) for ticket/conversation history, Stripe for payment-state lookups, and often Klaviyo or similar for post-resolution follow-up emails. If the store runs something else, the pattern doesn’t change — same shape, different API.
Try it
Run a live walkthrough — pick an issue type and connected systems, then choose what happens next.
What it costs
A single-channel order-support agent connected to Shopify/WooCommerce and a payment processor typically falls in the WhatsApp-agent-to-multi-tool-agent range — see the full cost breakdown or run the calculator against your actual order volume and channel count. Get in touch to scope it against your real store.
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