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# E-commerce & Retail

> Reduce RTO and recover revenue with automated COD confirmations, delivery alerts, and post-purchase surveys. Vobiz powers e-commerce voice automation across India and 130+ countries with a single API.

## What is E-commerce & Retail?

**Voice in E-commerce**

E-commerce is a high-volume, fast-moving business where customer expectations for responsiveness are high and tolerance for friction is low. A customer who cannot get an answer about their order status within minutes will turn to a competitor next time. A COD customer who does not confirm their order before dispatch is a risk of a returned delivery. A post-purchase customer who encounters a problem and cannot reach support quickly becomes a negative review.

Vobiz lets e-commerce businesses use voice intelligently - not as a fallback when digital channels fail, but as a proactive, automated channel that improves conversion, reduces costs, and builds customer trust.

## The Problem It Solves

**COD Order Confirmation**

Cash on delivery remains a significant portion of e-commerce orders in India, and unconfirmed COD orders are a major source of failed deliveries and returned inventory. An automated outbound call immediately after a COD order is placed - asking the customer to press 1 to confirm or press 2 to cancel - dramatically reduces the rate of fraudulent or accidental COD orders and the resulting return logistics costs.

The call is triggered by the order management system the moment a COD order is placed, uses text-to-speech to personalise the confirmation with the order summary and total amount, and updates the order system with the customer's response via webhook. The entire process is automated - no agent involvement, no delay.

## How Vobiz Powers E-commerce & Retail

**Post-Purchase Support and Returns**

When a customer calls the support line after receiving a damaged or wrong item, the experience of how they are handled determines whether they will order again. An IVR built on Vobiz routes the caller based on their query type - returns, wrong item, delivery issue - to the specialist team best positioned to resolve it. The call is recorded for quality assurance. If the issue requires escalation, the Transfer API moves the call to a senior agent with full context.

For high-volume return periods like post-festival sales, the IVR handles the initial query qualification, reducing the load on live agents by handling callers whose issue can be resolved with automated information - return eligibility check, pickup scheduling - without any agent involvement.

## Use Cases & Scenarios

## Why Choose Vobiz?

**Customer Engagement and Loyalty**

E-commerce brands use Vobiz's outbound calling for post-purchase engagement. A call three days after delivery asking the customer to rate their experience on a scale of 1 to 5 using the keypad collects satisfaction data without requiring the customer to fill out a form. Customers who rate 4 or 5 are thanked and offered a discount code via SMS, triggered by the webhook response. Customers who rate 1 or 2 are immediately connected to a senior agent for service recovery.

AI voice agents on Vobiz are being used by e-commerce platforms to handle the high volume of order status enquiries. The AI agent looks up the order by the caller's phone number, reads out the current status using text-to-speech, and answers common follow-up questions about estimated delivery time, order contents, and payment status - all without a human agent.

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