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Hire a Order Support FTE

Post-Purchase Support Specialist

Every "where is my order?" answered in minutes. A digital employee that owns post-purchase support end-to-end inside Gorgias, Zendesk or your help desk — order status, address changes, returns and exchanges, damaged-item claims — with the order, the shipment scan and your policy in front of it for every reply. It resolves routine cases inside the limits you set, offers an exchange before a refund where your policy allows, and escalates anything sensitive to a person with the full context attached.

Accountable for

Post-purchase tickets resolved inside policy, sensitive ones escalated

Judged on · First reply within five minutes on order-status tickets, and escalation accuracy

What it does not do · It does not write the returns policy, does not refund above the limit you set, and hands anything sensitive to a person.

  • Order Status & WISMO
  • Returns & Exchanges
  • Order Edits & Address Changes
  • Damaged & Missing Item Claims
  • Policy-Bounded Resolution
  • Escalation with Context

It proposes · you approve · every claim carries its evidence

Workspace · Order Support FTE

Order Support FTE

Post-Purchase Support Specialist

Resolved (24h)
186
First reply
4 min
Waiting on you
5
Exchanges vs refunds
38%

Waiting on you · Escalation · needs a human

Escalated · not auto-resolved

Refund request above your $120 limit · order #A-58213

  • Carrier scan shows delivered; customer reports not received; value exceeds your goodwill limit.
  • Second claim from the same address in 60 days.

Ticket thread · order · carrier scan · policy excerpt attached

Brief

Yesterday: 186 tickets resolved inside policy, 5 escalated, 41 refunds turned into exchanges.

Illustrative workspace · the Order Support FTE's Today tab
Overview

What Order Support owns.

A whole job function, not a task queue. Order Support holds the role, the targets and the budget you set, and reports to you on the numbers below.

Owns

  • Order Status & WISMO
  • Returns & Exchanges
  • Order Edits & Address Changes
  • Damaged & Missing Item Claims
  • Policy-Bounded Resolution
  • Escalation with Context

Reports on

  • Resolved (24h)
  • First reply
  • Waiting on you
  • Exchanges vs refunds

Needs from you

  • Access to your help desk (Gorgias, Zendesk or the one you run) and read access to orders and shipments
  • Your policies: return window, refund and goodwill limits, exchange rules, what always goes to a person
  • The tone you want and the phrases it must never use
How it works

A week with Order Support.

It reports in first, does the work, hands it over for approval, and measures what happened. You review it the way you review a direct report.

  1. Continuously01

    Tickets resolved in your help desk

    Order status, address changes, returns and exchanges answered from the order and the carrier scan, inside the limits you set.

  2. As they arise02

    Escalations with context

    Anything above a limit, outside policy or emotionally charged is handed to a person with the order, the thread and the policy excerpt attached.

  3. Daily03

    Exchange before refund

    Where your policy allows, a refund request is answered with an exchange or credit offer first; the customer's choice is logged either way.

  4. Friday04

    The honest review

    Resolution and escalation counts, first-reply time, exchanges versus refunds, and the policy gaps it noticed.

The workspace

Managed like a direct report.

Order Support reports into a workspace built for a manager, not an operator. Four of its tabs, drawn as they work.

Today

Your morning brief, first thing.

What is waiting on you comes first, then yesterday, what it noticed, and spend against budget. Read it in a minute.

Workspace · Order Support FTE · Today

Morning brief · Monday 08:00

Yesterday: 186 tickets resolved inside policy, 5 escalated, 41 refunds turned into exchanges.

Waiting on you

5 to review
Resolved (24h)
186
First reply
4 min
Waiting on you
5
Exchanges vs refunds
38%

Approvals

Nothing ships without your call.

Every publish, send or spend waits here with its verdict, its reasons and its evidence. Approve, or send it back with a note.

Workspace · Order Support FTE · Approvals

Approvals

1 waiting on you

  • Order Support FTE · Escalation · needs a human

    Escalated · not auto-resolved

    Refund request above your $120 limit · order #A-58213

    • Carrier scan shows delivered; customer reports not received; value exceeds your goodwill limit.
    • Second claim from the same address in 60 days.

    Ticket thread · order · carrier scan · policy excerpt attached

Performance

Numbers it can prove.

KPIs are measured, never estimated. Anything not connected yet is shown as unmeasured, not filled in.

Workspace · Order Support FTE · Performance

Resolved (24h)
186
First reply
4 min
Waiting on you
5
Not connected yet
Unmeasured

Resolved (24h) · 12 weeks

Measured, not estimated

Targets

The contract you hold it to.

Each target carries a status and its evidence. It can propose new targets; they wait for your approval.

Workspace · Order Support FTE · Targets

  • First reply within 5 minutes on order-status questions

    4 min this week · measured in the help desk

    On track
  • Every refund above the limit escalated to a person

    5 escalated · 0 auto-resolved

    Done
  • Exchange offered before refund on every eligible return

    38% chose an exchange · 2 policy gaps found

    At risk
  • Draft a returns-page update for the two questions asked most

    FTE-suggested · awaiting your approval

    Proposed · your call

Illustrative workspace frames · the tabs, verdicts and statuses are real product surfaces; the figures are samples.

Capabilities

Built for the job.

Every "where is my order?" answered in minutes. A digital employee that owns post-purchase support end-to-end inside Gorgias, Zendesk or your help desk — order status, address changes, returns and exchanges, damaged-item claims — with the order, the shipment scan and your policy in front of it for every reply. It resolves routine cases inside the limits you set, offers an exchange before a refund where your policy allows, and escalates anything sensitive to a person with the full context attached.

01

Answers from the order, not a script: shipment, carrier scan and policy attached to every reply

02

Refund limits, exchange rules and goodwill credits are hard rules it cannot exceed; above them, a person decides

03

Every resolution logged with its reason, so your team sees why a return was accepted or a claim escalated

Skills

  • Order Status & WISMO
  • Returns & Exchanges
  • Order Edits & Address Changes
  • Damaged & Missing Item Claims
  • Policy-Bounded Resolution
  • Escalation with Context
Missions

What you can ask it to do.

Beyond the weekly routine, you give it missions: a goal, a scope, a deadline, and progress you can see. Three modes, all of them bounded.

Production

Clear the peak-season backlog

A bounded push through open post-purchase tickets, inside policy, with progress you can see.

Diagnostic

Why did claims spike this month?

Ranked hypotheses with the tickets as evidence: a carrier lane, a packaging change, a product batch, a listing that over-promised.

Strategy

Which policy change would cut tickets most?

The questions it answers most often, ranked, with the policy or page change that would remove each one.

Diagnoses arrive as ranked hypotheses with evidence, never as certainties.

Inside your stack

It works in the tools you already run.

Order Support connects to the systems below with the permissions you grant, per organization and per property, and nothing more. Connections can be revoked at any time.

  • Help desk

    • Gorgias
    • Zendesk
    • Freshdesk
    • Intercom
    • Re:amaze
  • Orders and shipping

    • Shopify
    • WooCommerce
    • BigCommerce
    • ShipStation
    • Loop Returns
  • Where you review its work

    • Your ftes.ai workspace
    • Claude and ChatGPT via MCP connector
    • Email brief
Control

You manage. Order Support executes.

It starts at Level 0 and earns autonomy one step at a time. You grant each level when the evidence says so, and you can take it back at any time.

  1. Level 0

    Proposes only

    Every draft, launch, send or spend waits in Approvals. This is where every FTE starts.

  2. Level 1

    Low-risk on its own

    You allow routine actions you have approved many times: refreshes, reply drafts, reconciliations that match exactly.

  3. Level 2

    Acts inside caps

    It may pause losers, scale winners or publish scheduled work, always inside the budget and rules you set.

  4. Level 3

    Runs the week

    Scheduled production runs; you review the brief, the exceptions and the numbers. Any level can be taken back at any time.

Approvals

1 waiting on you

  • Order Support FTE · Escalation · needs a human

    Escalated · not auto-resolved

    Refund request above your $120 limit · order #A-58213

    • Carrier scan shows delivered; customer reports not received; value exceeds your goodwill limit.
    • Second claim from the same address in 60 days.

    Ticket thread · order · carrier scan · policy excerpt attached

Illustrative approvals queue · budget and spend are always visible beside it.

Approval gates
On every publish, send and spend
Budget
A hard cap it cannot exceed
Audit trail
Who, what, when, and why
Getting started

Hired in minutes.

Instant onboarding: it is on your team the same day you sign up.

  1. Step 01

    Sign up

    Create your organization. Order Support is added to your workforce from the link below.

  2. Step 02

    Connect and confirm

    Grant the tools it needs and confirm the targets it proposes. It never asks for what the platform already knows.

  3. Step 03

    Review the first proposals

    Its first brief and first proposals land in Approvals the same day.

FAQ

Before you hire.

Short answers. The docs have the long ones.

Can it issue a refund on its own?

Only inside the limit you set, and only once you grant that level. Above the limit, outside the return window, or on a repeat claim, it escalates to a person with the evidence attached. Every resolution is logged with its reason.

What can the Order Support FTE do without my approval?

Nothing that leaves your company. Order Support proposes first: every publish, send or spend waits in Approvals with its reasons and evidence. You can grant more autonomy step by step and take it back at any time. Every action is logged.

How is it priced?

Plans are token-metered blocks of work, not seats. Every FTE in your organization draws from one wallet whose balance is always visible in the workspace. At zero the FTEs pause; they never overdraw.

How long does onboarding take?

Sign up, connect the tools the role needs, and confirm the targets it proposes. Roles marked instant onboarding are working the same day; roles marked custom onboarding are scoped with our team first.

Where does my data go?

Your data stays scoped to your organization and, where it applies, to the specific property the FTE works on. Integration credentials are encrypted at rest and can be revoked at any time.

More roles

More in this department.

Every role holds its own targets and budget; hire one or several, they share one wallet and one workspace.

Your next hire is Order Support.

Sign up, connect the tools it needs, and review its first proposals this week.