E-commerce / DTC Brands 90-day fee/work pause

Your support team is drowning in where is my order emails

WISMO tickets are 40-60% of your volume. Agents spend their day copy-pasting between Shopify, Gorgias, and your 3PL.

Leverwork takes over routine work in a role — it doesn't add another tool your team ignores. AI workers handle WISMO, returns, and order management end-to-end.

Target go-live: about 30 days from kickoff. Your timeline is set in your SOW.

01 40-60% WISMO Volume
02 8 hours Avg Response Time
The challenge

Your daily reality

The hidden costs of manual customer service that eat into your margins.

01

WISMO Overload

WISMO tickets consume 40-60% of support hours — you are answering "where is my order" instead of growing the business

02

System Fragmentation

Copy-pasting between Shopify, Gorgias, Zendesk, and your 3PL — no systems talk to each other

03

Peak Season Chaos

Scrambling for BFCM temp hires who take 3 weeks to onboard, then leaving after peak season

04

Escalating Workload

Ticket volume rises with every order while the team still cannot keep up

Where the hours go

Where your support time actually goes

Task type
Volume breakdown
Time / day
WISMO Where is My Order
40-60%
4-6 hours/day
Returns & Exchanges
15-25%
1.5-2.5 hours/day
Order Modifications
10-15%
1-1.5 hours/day
Pre-sale Questions
10-15%
1-1.5 hours/day
Complex Issues
5-10%
0.5-1 hours/day
Target roles

Roles we support

These are the roles whose routine work Leverwork can take over.

01

Customer Service Reps

WISMO responses, order status inquiries, basic returns processing

02

Returns Processing Staff

RMA creation, refund processing, warehouse coordination

03

Order Modification Specialists

Address changes, size exchanges, subscription updates

Handled by AI workers

Routine workflows, handled by AI workers with a named person for exceptions

We do not deflect tickets. We resolve them completely, automatically.

WISMO End-to-End
Before — manual

Customer emails -> Agent checks Shopify -> Agent checks ShipStation -> Agent checks 3PL portal -> Agent composes reply -> Agent sends 8 steps, 15-20 min

After — handed to AI

Customer asks -> AI queries all systems -> AI synthesizes status -> AI drafts the response and routes exceptions

Returns Processing
Before — manual

Customer requests return -> Agent verifies policy -> Agent creates RMA -> Agent coordinates with warehouse -> Agent processes refund -> Agent updates inventory 6 steps, 8-12 min per case

After — handed to AI

Customer requests return -> AI verifies policy -> AI creates RMA -> AI coordinates warehouse pickup -> AI processes refund -> AI updates inventory

Peak Season Scaling
Before — manual

October: Post job ads -> November: Interview candidates -> December: Train new hires -> January: Lose them to other jobs — a three-month cycle that repeats every peak season

After — handed to AI

October: Activate AI capacity -> November-December: AI handles peak queues -> January: Scale down without temp hires to train or lose

Tools vs. workstreams

Why not just use industry tool

Good question. Here is the difference between adding tools and replacing workstreams.

Gorgias Automate / Ada

Ticket deflection and AI-powered workflows

— These are ticket deflectors — they answer simple questions but require human agents to close tickets
Leverwork

AI workers resolve routine tickets; a named person handles exceptions.

Shopify Inbox

Basic chat integration

— Basic chat that does not integrate with returns, shipping, or complex workflows
Leverwork

Full integration with Shopify, Gorgias, ShipStation, Returnly, and Loop. End-to-end resolution.

Outsourcing to the Philippines

Offshore customer support

— Timezone handoffs, quality control, training, and high turnover make consistency hard to maintain
Leverwork

AI follows the same policies on every ticket and scales with seasonal volume.

Integrations

We integrate with your existing stack

Leverwork connects directly to the platforms you already use — no workflow disruption, no new tools to learn.

Shopify
E-commerce Platform
Gorgias
Ticketing System
Zendesk
Ticketing System
ShipStation
Shipping Management
Returnly
Returns Management
Loop
Returns Management
Klaviyo
Email Marketing

Illustrative scenario

A DTC brand growing 80% YoY, with support response times slipping from 2 hours to 8 and carts abandoned over unanswered questions, could expect Leverwork to take over order inquiries, returns, and social DMs while staff handle exceptions.
Illustrative scenario
Honest fit

Is Leverwork right for you?

Honest answer: sometimes we're not.

This works best if…

  • $2M-$50M revenue e-commerce brands
  • High ticket volume 500+/month with repetitive inquiries
  • Brands using Shopify, Gorgias, Zendesk, or similar stack
  • Teams drowning in WISMO and returns processing

Not ideal if…

— Brands with fewer than 200 support tickets/month, highly personalized luxury goods requiring white-glove human service, or companies wanting AI to assist (not replace) existing support staff. Also not ideal if your tickets require complex judgment calls on every single case.

Put AI to work. Keep your people leading.

A full-time AP / bookkeeping seat costs about $68K–$74K a year in wages and benefits (our estimate from BLS 2025/2026 data). Your assessment estimates the numbers for your business. 90-day fee/work pause on agreed SOW metrics

A 20-minute call. We'll show you which seats AI can take over — and where humans stay essential.

Book the 20 minutes