VOICE AI FOR HOME & GARDEN BRANDS
The Virtual Receptionist for Home & Garden Brands
Buyers call about firmness, fabric, and freight before they spend $1,500 online. Shoplabs answers from your full catalog on the first ring, day and night, and walks them to checkout.
Home & garden insights you need to know
~18%
of furniture and home goods orders get returned
Size and color mismatch between the screen and the living room is the top reason
7.6%
of furniture arrives scuffed, scratched, or broken
The highest delivery damage rate of any ecommerce category
51%
of shoppers are unlikely to buy again after a damaged delivery
One bad delivery day quietly costs you the second order
85%
of callers who can't reach a person never call back
On a $1,500 sofa, that silence is the whole sale
GET TO KNOW SHOPLABS
Built for the purchases people sleep on
Order status, answered.
An automated phone system inside your existing stack.
Returns management that saves the sale.
Every Delivery Question Answered. Every Return Given a Second Chance.
Shoplabs recognizes your customers the moment they call, handles customer returns management on the phone, and answers order status questions at 2am, with no added headcount at peak season.
How Shoplabs compares
Weighing customer support outsource options for your home and garden brand usually means choosing between chat widgets and call centers. Here's how Shoplabs stacks up against Ringly, Gorgias, and Consio on the calls that decide big ticket orders.
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| 24/7 voice call coverage | An answering service that answers every call, day and night, through spring garden season and Black Friday. No added headcount. | 24/7 inbound voice answering available. | AI covers chat and email tickets. Phone is handled by your human agents. | Inbound voice plus an outbound dialer for cart recovery and VIP outreach. |
| Big ticket product knowledge | Full per-SKU ingestion: dimensions, materials, fabric care, firmness, assembly guides. Live website sync keeps it current. | FAQ-based responses only. No per-SKU manual ingestion. | Shopping Assistant asks style and layout questions in chat. Knowledge base articles, no voice channel. | Built around orders, returns, and product catalog support. |
| Delivery day coordination | Reads live order status from Shopify, explains the freight window, and texts the tracking link mid-call. | Looks up the caller's Shopify order history as part of the call. | Order status surfaces in chat through Shopify data. | Order lookups handled in-call. |
| Returns and trial saves | Checks eligibility against your policy live and delivers a save offer before the return is final. | Explains your return policy from help docs. | Returns handled through chat and email automation. | Returns supported within its orders and catalog scope. |
| Caller recognition before they speak | Order history and prior calls load the instant the phone rings, greeting repeat buyers like regulars. | Phone number match with basic order history. | Customer sidebar inside tickets. No pre-answer phone recognition. | Pulls Shopify order and customer context as part of handling the call. |
Shoplabs sits on Shopify, syncs with Klaviyo, and drops a summary with full transcript into Gorgias, Zendesk, or Salesforce after every call. It's built on ai agents for ecommerce that train on your catalog alone, and it's live in 48 hours.
CUSTOMER STORY
The AI sales agent that outsold a human team
Emma Sleep, Europe's most awarded mattress brand, put Shoplabs on their abandoned checkouts. The agent beat their human sales team on recovery rate and revenue, running around the clock.
Emma Sleep’s best salesperson never sleeps.
“The agent knew exactly when to call, what to say, and when to offer the EMI. It felt like our best salesperson, but it never slept.”
— Sahil, Growth Manager, Emma Sleep
20%+
Higher recovery than human agents
12,400
Orders confirmed in 30 days
2 in 3
Customers pick up the call
FAQ
Common questions from home and garden brand founders before getting started.
Can the AI really answer detailed questions about sofas, mattresses, and garden equipment?
Yes. Shoplabs trains on your full catalog: dimensions, materials, fabric care, firmness levels, weight capacity, assembly steps, and planting guides. Live website sync keeps that knowledge current, so when a caller asks whether the three seater fits through a 30 inch door frame, the answer comes from your spec sheet, live on the call.
How does Shoplabs handle delivery status questions on freight and white glove orders?
Order status is pulled through Shopify order tracking and read out on the call, so WISMO calls resolve in under a minute. The agent explains the delivery window, texts the tracking link by SMS, and flags damaged or delayed deliveries to your team with the full transcript attached.
What does an answering service cost compared to Shoplabs?
On cost, a typical answering service bills per minute with human agents, so bills climb fast in peak season. Shoplabs plans start at $299 a month with your first 150 minutes free. On demand surges, an answering service has to hire and train more agents for spring garden season or Black Friday, while Shoplabs scales to any call volume instantly, no new hires needed. On outcomes, a typical answering service takes a message; Shoplabs resolves the call itself, texting tracking links and offering saves so fewer calls need a human follow-up.
Does Shoplabs replace my support team or my helpdesk?
No. It answers the routine calls: product specs, order status, return eligibility, care instructions, and everything after hours. When a call genuinely needs a human, it warm transfers to your team, and every call lands in Gorgias, Zendesk, or your existing queue as a summary with the full transcript.
Can Shoplabs actually reduce furniture and mattress returns?
It works on returns twice. Before purchase, it answers the sizing and material questions that cause mismatch returns. After purchase, returns processing starts with an eligibility check against your policy, and on trial cancellations the agent can deliver a save offer before the return is final. Full return initiation on the call is in active development.
Every Big Ticket Question, Answered While It Still Matters
Shoplabs trains on your catalog, recognizes returning customers, answers order status and returns calls around the clock, and hands your team only the calls that genuinely need them.
Live in 48 hours · 200k+ calls made · 150 free minutes to start