Your Online Product Sales Agent Fills Web Orders While You Style
The AgentWorks Online Product Sales Agent takes the web shop off your front desk and salon manager. It confirms each online order with the client, processes it, coordinates packing and shipping, answers questions about delivery, and sends clients a well-timed prompt between visits for the products their stylist recommended, so your team stays with the clients in the salon while the shop keeps selling.
What it takes off your plate
In many salons, online product sales are an afterthought. There may be a shop page on the website, but nobody checks it. An order comes in on a Saturday and sits until Tuesday. The client emails asking where it is, and the front desk has to find the order, find the product, find a box and get it to the post office between checkouts.
Meanwhile the salon's best retail opportunity goes untapped. A client leaves with a shampoo and mask her stylist recommended, runs out a few weeks later and buys something else online because it is easy. The professional products she was told to use are sitting on your shelf, but she cannot buy them from you until her next booking. The revenue between appointments goes somewhere else, and so does a little of the relationship.
What the Online Product Sales Agent does, step by step
The Online Product Sales Agent starts with the client, because a web order is a conversation.
- Confirms the order. When a client orders online, the agent sends a confirmation by text or email with the products, the total and how it will reach them: shipped, or ready for pickup at their next booking.
- Answers delivery questions. A client who asks where an order is gets the tracking status right away, without anyone at the front desk searching for it.
- Prompts clients between visits. Based on the products a client bought and what their stylist recommended, the agent sends a short, personal note when they are likely running low, with a link to reorder.
- Tells the team what to pack. Each morning the front desk or manager gets one pick list with every order to pack or set aside for pickup.
- Processes the order. Behind the messages, the agent records each sale in your shop platform and your point of sale, and adjusts retail inventory.
- Coordinates fulfillment. It creates the shipping label, records the tracking number and marks the order shipped once it is handed off.
- Flags stock issues. If a product ordered online is out of stock, the agent tells the manager and lets the client know when it will ship.
Which products the salon sells, prices and any product advice for a client's hair stay with the owner and stylists. The agent runs the orders; people make the recommendations.
Where the work is recorded
An agent that cannot record its results is a chatbot. The Online Product Sales Agent writes its work where your team already looks.
In the CRM, each client's record shows every online order, every message about it and every reorder prompt, so the stylist sees at the next booking what the client has been using. Households that share products show up together, which makes recommendations easier.
In your shop platform and point of sale, orders, tracking and inventory stay in sync with in-salon sales. The next morning the manager sees what sold online overnight, what needs packing and what is running low. The same client relationship is built at the chair with the Retail Display Agent that turns your shelf into a profit center, and loyal retail clients are kept close by the approach in keeping retail clients when products ship between visits.
What your people do instead
Your stylists stay behind the chair, recommending products while they work and knowing the client can buy them from the salon any time. Your front desk greets the client walking in and books the next appointment, instead of hunting for a box. Your salon manager spends time with the team rather than chasing lost orders.
Client service and client satisfaction are the human job. The AgentWorks Online Product Sales Agent keeps the orders, the shipping and the between-visit prompts moving around them, so clients buy from you all year, not only when they are in the chair.
Find out where to start
Online sales are one workflow; your salon may have a louder one, like rebooking or cancellations. The free Industry Assessment for salons shows which workflow an agent should take first, and the beauty industry page walks through the agents built for salons and spas.
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