An ecommerce operating team, built for one business
Five agents watch your storefront, your orders, your customer conversations, your ads and your money. They read one record, so they can answer a question that crosses all five.
Then they bring you the change, with the evidence attached, and wait for you to press.
Built to grow revenue.
Designed to protect margin.
The counter
#AH-24821
Held · no landmarkCallie is on the call.
Nothing prepared yet.
Needs your decision
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The system is the same. Only the example changes.
The team
Five agents. Each one is responsible for a different part of the operation.
The team, at the counter
Add this installation answer to the 120W product page?
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What that gets you
Three things change on the day this starts running.
A question customers keep asking that your product page never answers. A campaign that looks profitable at the click and expensive at the door. A product that earns less than it appears to, once the returns come back and the freight settles.
None of that is new demand. It is revenue already inside your business, going out a side door.
The reason an order is held is on the order. The call that explains it is on the order. The change that fixes it is on the order, already written out.
You are not opening five tabs and a spreadsheet to work out what happened. You are reading one row and pressing one button.
Flagged to fixed · one screen, one press
Your agents read every order, every message and every campaign as they happen. Overnight, over a weekend, over a week you spend somewhere else.
Nothing is changed while you are away, with one exception. If a customer asks where their order is, Callie answers them. That is the only thing in this whole system that happens without you.
So the morning after is a few minutes of pressing, not an hour of catching up.
Overnight · 3 orders held · 1 campaign flagged · 1 margin alert · all waiting for you
A morning
This is the whole queue, not a tidy excerpt of it.
πCounter · Orders
Agents
This morning
| Order | What happened | Read from | Agent | Waiting | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #AH-24821 | DecideAddress incomplete, held before dispatch | call + WhatsApp | Orla | 14:12 | ₹8,240 |
| #AH-24818 | PreparedCampaign buying returns in Jaipur | ads manager + orders | Ada | 02 Sep | ₹58,900 |
| #AH-24802 | Prepared200W with camera negative after returns | settlement + freight invoice | Margo | 03 Sep | −₹41,800 |
| #AH-24817 | PreparedSame install question asked three times | calls on 3 orders | Stella | 04 Sep | 3 orders |
| #AH-24830 | DecideCOD order flagged, risk 0.72 | order history | Orla | 04 Sep | ₹12,600 |
| #AH-24796 | WaitingDelivery attempt failed, second try booked | courier tracking | Orla | 04 Sep | ₹4,190 |
| #AH-24771 | WaitingRefund settled, freight not yet posted | payment gateway | Margo | 03 Sep | −₹1,120 |
| #AH-24765 | PreparedProduct page missing a delivery answer | WhatsApp threads | Stella | 02 Sep | 9 asks |
| #AH-24829 | DecideSecond address correction on one order | call, 0m 51s | Callie | 05 Sep | ₹6,300 |
| #AH-24828 | DoneReady for dispatch, label printed | orders | Orla | 05 Sep | ₹3,190 |
| #AH-24827 | DoneCustomer asked where the parcel is | WhatsApp, answered | Callie | 05 Sep | ₹2,480 |
| #AH-24826 | WaitingAwaiting payment, link sent once | payment gateway | Margo | 05 Sep | ₹12,600 |
| #AH-24825 | DoneReady for dispatch | orders | Orla | 05 Sep | ₹1,940 |
| #AH-24824 | DoneInstall walkthrough completed on call | call, 3m 42s | Callie | 05 Sep | ₹18,900 |
| #AH-24823 | WaitingReturn picked up, refund not settled | courier + gateway | Margo | 04 Sep | not settled |
| #AH-24822 | DecidePincode outside courier serviceability | courier rules | Orla | 04 Sep | ₹7,450 |
| #AH-24815 | PreparedCreative drafted, nothing published | ads manager | Ada | 03 Sep | draft |
| #AH-24812 | PreparedComment asking about warranty, reply drafted | ad comments | Ada | 03 Sep | draft |
| #AH-24809 | PreparedFreight invoice higher than quoted | freight invoice | Margo | 02 Sep | ₹2,860 |
| #AH-24804 | PreparedCatalogue price and page copy disagree | catalogue | Stella | 02 Sep | 1 product |
| #AH-24799 | DoneOrder delivered, evidence attached | courier proof | Orla | 01 Sep | ₹5,640 |
#AH-24821
Needs your decisionEvidence · Callie's call, today 14:12, 1m 08s, Hindi
“Aapka address adhura hai. Koi landmark bata dijiye?”
“Anand Vihar Apartments, Jain Mandir ke saamne. Malviya Nagar.”
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1,284 orders this month · 38 returned
Before and after
Left, where the answer lives today. Right, where it lives here.
Where the answer lives today
Campaigns · August
| Festive · 40W | 1,84,000 | 412 |
| Jaipur · Broad | 58,900 | 31 |
| Retarget · cart | 62,400 | 208 |
| Garden · reels | 33,600 | 147 |
Where it lives here
πCounter · Orders
Jaipur · Broad
Ada flagged this campaign. She has not paused it.
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Needs your decisionWhich of those 31 orders came back? Not on this tab.
The ads manager
| Campaign | Spend | Cost / purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Festive · 40W | 1,84,000 | 447 |
| Jaipur · Broad | 58,900 | 1,900 |
| Retarget · cart | 62,400 | 300 |
| Garden · reels | 33,600 | 229 |
| Panel 100W · PMax | 74,500 | 401 |
The same campaign, read against your orders
πCounter · Spend against kept orders
| Campaign | Kept | Cost / kept |
|---|---|---|
| Festive · 40W | 374 | 492 |
| Jaipur · Broad | 19 | 3,100 |
| Retarget · cart | 194 | 322 |
| Garden · reels | 138 | 243 |
| Panel 100W · PMax | 164 | 454 |
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Flagged, waiting for youOne column: kept. Everything else on both screens agrees.
The conversation
Customer · +91 98••• ••214
Aapka address adhura hai. Koi landmark bata dijiye?
Your address is incomplete. Could you give me a landmark?
14:10
Anand Vihar Apartments, Jain Mandir ke saamne. Malviya Nagar.
Anand Vihar Apartments, opposite the Jain temple. Malviya Nagar.
14:12
Shukriya. Main yeh order par likh deti hoon.
Thank you. I'll write this onto the order.
14:12
What it became
πCounter · #AH-24821
Evidence · Callie's call, today 14:12, 1m 08s, Hindi
“Anand Vihar Apartments, Jain Mandir ke saamne. Malviya Nagar.”
Delivery address · 2 lines added
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Needs your decisionNothing was rewritten. The customer's own words are the evidence.
The call
Customer · +91 98••• ••214
05 Sep 14:12 · 1m 08s · Hindi
Callie
Aapka address adhura hai. Koi landmark bata dijiye?
Your address is incomplete. Could you give me a landmark?
Customer
Anand Vihar Apartments, Jain Mandir ke saamne. Malviya Nagar.
Anand Vihar Apartments, opposite the Jain temple. Malviya Nagar.
The evidence on the order
πCounter · #AH-24821
Held · no landmark
“Aapka address adhura hai. Koi landmark bata dijiye?”
“Anand Vihar Apartments, Jain Mandir ke saamne. Malviya Nagar.”
Orla prepared an amendment
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Needs your decisionThe transcript is attached to the order, not filed in a call log nobody opens.
Courier tracking
The order it belongs to
πCounter · #AH-24821
AWB 3918 4402 7761
Held · no landmark
Orla held it before dispatch and wrote the amendment. It has not been sent.
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Needs your decisionThe courier's own reason, "Consignee address incomplete", is now on the order.
The product page today
120W panel
Specifications · Warranty · Delivery
No answer on this page to: “Do I need a separate mounting kit for a tin roof?”
The line Stella prepared
πCounter · Storefront
Asked on 3 calls in 11 days
Tin roof installs need the tilt mounting kit. It is not included with the panel.
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Needs your decisionOne paragraph, waiting. The page is unchanged until you press.
Settlement and freight, as they arrive
The same product, once both have landed
πCounter · Margin after returns
200W with camera
What's left−41,800
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Waiting for your decisionSame figures. One place, and one row at the bottom.
The counter
One place to ask, because every agent writes to the same record.
At the counter
Typed at the counter
Why did Delhi cost us more this month?
Reading…
Proposal
Nothing prepared yet.
That change lands in your storefront. That is a different system from every one the question came from.
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πCounter · The counter
You asked
Why did Delhi cost us more this month?
What it will not do
Margo: I don't have your reverse freight cost. I'm not going to estimate it.
Restrict COD above ₹4,000 for these 14 pincodes
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One record · five readers
Margo: I don't have your reverse freight cost. I'm not going to estimate it.
A number with no definition behind it cannot be quoted here. That is a rule in the code, not a preference.
It proposes. You press. Every time, without exception.
How a decision gets made
One order, followed from the moment it is held to the receipt at the end.
One order, all the way through
#AH-24821
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Permissions
Almost nothing. Here is the whole list.
| Agent | Reads | Does without asking | Waits for you | Never |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stella | Sessions, catalogue, order history | Nothing | Product page and storefront changes | Invents stock, a price, or a delivery date |
| Orla | Orders, customers, history | Sets a risk score, and writes the reason for it | Holds a shipment. Amends an address | Holds a shipment silently |
| Callie | Orders, risk, customer, the product manual | Sends a customer a message about their own order | Any campaign send | Makes a promotional call. Guesses at a step that isn't in the manual |
| Ada | Ad performance, comments | Drafts creative. Drafts a reply | Publishes anything. Any campaign change | Changes a campaign without a human press |
| Margo | Everything financial | Nothing | Nothing. Margo only reports | Reports a margin built on a cost nobody supplied |
| the counter | Everything | Writes a proposal | Every action, without exception | Executes anything on its own |
Stella
Orla
Callie
Ada
Margo
the counter
There is exactly one thing in this system that happens without you: Callie sends a customer a message about that customer's own order. Everything else waits for a press. Here is the whole table.
This table is part of the build. If it changes, you see it change.
Coverage
Ads, margin and the storefront, read against the same orders.
Margo reads the sale, the settlement, the return and the freight, and tells you what is left when they have all arrived.
Margin after returns, product level
200W with camera
−₹41,800 after returns
Jaipur · Broad
12 of 31 orders came back.
You paused · Ada flagged
Ada reads spend against what actually stayed sold, not against what was clicked.
What one customer had to ask on the phone becomes an answer on the page, waiting for you to approve it.
Add this installation answer to the 120W product page?
From Callie's call on #AH-24817
Nothing applied yet
One product
1 of 6
What it sold for
The number every dashboard shows you.
2 of 6
Less what came back
Seventy-one of three hundred and twelve.
3 of 6
Less what it cost to buy
Cost of goods on the units that stayed sold and the ones that did not.
4 of 6
Less the freight, both ways
Out to the customer, and back again on the returns.
5 of 6
Less the spend that bought it
And the gateway's cut.
6 of 6
What is left
In black, because a negative number in red is easier to look away from.
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πCounter · Margin after returns · ₹
| Product | Sold | Revenue | Returned | Refunds | Goods | Freight | Ad spend | Fees | What's left |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200W with camera | 312 | 18,72,000 | 71 | 4,26,000 | 9,98,400 | 2,84,300 | 1,84,000 | 21,100 | −41,800 |
| 120W panel | 486 | 14,58,000 | 38 | 1,14,000 | 7,29,000 | 2,18,700 | 62,400 | 16,400 | 3,17,500 |
| 100W panel · PMax | 274 | 6,85,000 | 29 | 72,500 | 3,56,200 | 1,23,300 | 74,500 | 7,700 | 50,800 |
| Garden light · 4 pack | 1,140 | 5,70,000 | 62 | 31,000 | 2,73,600 | 1,71,000 | 33,600 | 6,400 | 54,400 |
| Inverter 1kVA | 88 | 7,04,000 | 6 | 48,000 | 4,22,400 | 88,000 | 19,200 | 7,900 | 1,18,500 |
| Charge controller 40A | 402 | 3,21,600 | 17 | 13,600 | 1,60,800 | 60,300 | 11,400 | 3,600 | 71,900 |
| Mounting kit · tilt | 530 | 2,65,000 | 9 | 4,500 | 1,32,500 | 79,500 | 0 | 2,900 | 45,600 |
| Battery 100Ah | 61 | 9,15,000 | 4 | 60,000 | 6,10,000 | 1,52,500 | 24,800 | 10,200 | 57,500 |
| Cable run · 20m | 918 | 1,83,600 | 11 | 2,200 | 91,800 | 55,100 | 0 | 2,000 | 32,500 |
| Solar water heater | 37 | 5,55,000 | 5 | 75,000 | 3,33,000 | 1,29,500 | 18,600 | 6,200 | −7,300 |
| 300W panel · trade | 24 | 3,60,000 | 2 | 30,000 | 2,16,000 | not settled | 0 | 4,000 | not settled |
| Monitoring dongle | 205 | 1,02,500 | 3 | 1,500 | 41,000 | 20,500 | 8,900 | 1,100 | 29,500 |
The freight invoice for the trade panel has not arrived. Margo will not estimate it, so that row reads not settled rather than a number nobody can defend.
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Read by Margo · 05 Sep
One campaign
1 of 3
At the click
Thirty-one purchases, counted at checkout, the day they happened.
2 of 3
Three weeks later
Twelve of them came back. That settles in a different system.
3 of 3
The same campaign
One column, and the whole judgement changes. Ada flags it. She does not pause it.
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πCounter · Spend against kept orders · ₹
| Campaign | Spend | Purchases | Cost per purchase | Returned | Kept | Cost per kept order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Festive · 40W | 1,84,000 | 412 | 447 | 38 | 374 | 492 |
| FlaggedJaipur · Broad | 58,900 | 31 | 1,900 | 12 | 19 | 3,100 |
| Retarget · cart | 62,400 | 208 | 300 | 14 | 194 | 322 |
| Garden · reels | 33,600 | 147 | 229 | 9 | 138 | 243 |
| Panel 100W · PMax | 74,500 | 186 | 401 | 22 | 164 | 454 |
| Install how-to · video | 21,800 | 64 | 341 | 3 | 61 | 357 |
| Trade · lookalike | 40,200 | 52 | 773 | not settled | not settled | not settled |
Cost per purchase is counted at checkout. Cost per kept order is counted after the returns come back, which is three weeks later and in a different system.
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Read by Ada · nothing paused
Integrations
Every system it touches writes to the same record. That is the whole product, in one line.
Read by Ada
Meta
Instagram
Google Ads
YouTubeRead by Stella
Shopify
WooCommerceRead by Margo
Razorpay
Stripe
PayPalRead by Orla
Read by Callie
WhatsApp Business Platform
TwilioRead by Orla
Blue Dart
DHLRead by Callie and Orla
Read by Orla and Margo
Read by Margo
Read by Callie, then Stella
The answer that customer needed changes the page the next customer sees.
Ten steps. One row. That is why a question about your ads can be answered with what a customer said on the phone.
These are the platforms this architecture is built to read. Connection status for each one is listed below.
The storefront
We build the store, so the record is complete from the first row.
Most tools attach to a store that was never built to be measured, and then spend their life guessing which visit became which order.
We build the storefront. So the record is complete from the first row. Which ad brought them, what they looked at, what they asked, what they paid, what came back, and what it cost.
This narrows who we are for. If you are doing serious volume on a storefront that works, with an ops stack you like, this is not the right thing to buy. We would rather say that on the first call.
Storefront craft by The Morning Beer.
we build one of these at a time.
it belongs to the business we build it for.