Sanaf, the AI employee

AI order management

The sale is the easy part. Then there is the order that stalled at the warehouse, the customer asking where it is, the return that arrived without a note, and the daily job of keeping the order records and the accounting software telling the same story.

What it does

Concretely

  • Enters and checks incoming orders against what you actually sold.
  • Watches for orders that have stalled or are running late.
  • Sends order confirmations and delivery updates without being prompted.
  • Handles routine changes, cancellations and returns within the policy you set.
  • Keeps the order records and the accounting software in step.

Nobody notices a stalled order until the customer does

An order that is progressing and an order that has quietly stopped look identical in most systems until someone asks. The work of noticing is a daily pass over everything in flight, comparing where each one should be against where it is, and that pass is the first thing skipped when the day gets busy. It is also the cheapest customer service you can buy.

It updates and informs, it does not make exceptions

A refund, a discount, a return outside the policy you gave it, or an order that looks like fraud goes to a person with the order history attached. Those four are where the money and the judgment are, and an order desk that can quietly approve them is not a time saving, it is an unmonitored spending limit.

Two systems, one story

Order records and accounting drift apart in every business that does more than a handful of orders a week, and the drift is found at month end by whoever reconciles. Keeping them in step continuously turns that into a smaller and more frequent task, which is the form of the problem that can actually be kept on top of.

The exceptions summary

Rather than a dashboard of everything that is fine, it prepares a daily summary of the orders and exceptions that need a human eye: what stalled, what is late, what a customer has chased, what is waiting on a decision. A short list of things that are wrong is more useful than a long list of things that are right.

Questions

Frequently asked

Does it work with Shopify?
Shopify is one of the connections this job commonly uses, alongside your email, accounting software and spreadsheets. As with every job, it reaches only the tools you connect for it, and a connection granted for the order desk does not become access to everything else.
Can it issue a refund?
No, not on its own. A refund goes to a person with the order history attached, and the same applies to discounts, out-of-policy returns and anything that looks like fraud. It can prepare the case so the decision takes a moment rather than an investigation.
How does it know an order is late?
By comparing where an order should be against where it is, on a recurring pass, using the delivery expectations you give it. What counts as late is your definition rather than a default, because it differs by what you sell and how you ship it.