Peak week doesn't care how many people you hired in October.
Where is my order, can I return this, did my code apply — most of an e-commerce queue is the same few questions, and they all spike at once. WireDesk answers them on chat, email and the phone from your published policies, and hands your team the ones with money on the line.
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The three messages every peak week is made of
And what the agent does with each — from your own content, never invented.
"Where is my order?"
Answers from your shipping policy and cut-off times, and with a custom action pointed at your order API it quotes the real tracking status instead of a policy paragraph.
"Can I still return this?"
Reads your returns policy back exactly — the window, the exceptions, who pays the shipping — and starts the return by whatever route you define. It never invents a goodwill exception it wasn't given.
"My discount code didn't apply."
Explains the terms you published and why the code didn't stack, and escalates to a person when a refund or an override is the only honest answer.
Money decisions stay with your team.
Refunds, goodwill credits, chargebacks, anything above the threshold you set — those go to a person with the transcript and the customer's details attached. The repeat questions that make up most of a peak week never reach the queue at all, which is the difference between hiring for December and not.
- 30,000 chat replies sent
- $600
- 9,000 emails answered
- $180
- 2,000 voice minutes
- $400
- A month
- ≈ $1,180 / month
At published rates, with no seats to buy for a four-week spike and nothing to pay for the eleven quieter months. Raise the cap for November, drop it in January.
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Work out what answering customer conversations costs you in hours and dollars, how much an AI agent would resolve, and what it would bill at usage rates — net savings included.
Today you spend about 80 hours ($2,240) a month answering. Agent cost uses $0.20 per started voice minute and $0.02 per answered chat or email. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.
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Questions e-commerce teams ask
With a custom action pointed at your order or fulfilment API, yes — the agent calls it during the conversation and answers with the real status, under limits you define per action. Without one it answers from your published shipping policy and takes the order number for your team.