Manage it in Shopify
Management is embedded directly in Shopify admin. Customer intelligence, conversational shopping, and checkout personalization are managed together.
Conversational Shopping
Turn product questions into larger baskets.
Give shoppers fast help finding, comparing, combining, and choosing products while they are ready to buy. AI Shopping Assistant is grounded in your catalog, availability, policies, and permitted customer context.
- Find products that work together
- Build a more relevant basket
- 100+ languages
- No retailer-specific training
- Real product and availability context
- Gorgias, Zendesk, and live-agent handoff
Explore your AOV opportunity without changing your store. Qualified retailers may receive up to one month of complimentary full-platform access, subject to fit review, approval, and capacity.
Shopify-native customer intelligence
Grow order value. Keep setup simple.
Self-service setup and management, with no consulting engagement or complex deployment required.
Configure it yourself
Simple buttons and text fields let your team configure the experience, including chat. You control the settings and appearance.
Make it part of your storefront
Liquid storefront components bring the experience into your store. Checkout personalization uses supported Shopify placements under your rules.
Keep the tools you use
Works with existing marketing, recommendation, and support tools through supported integrations. Full Platform provider features require a connected account and your authorization.
Multi-product shopping
Help shoppers build the basket, not just find one item.
- “What works with this?”
- “Build me the full outfit under $250.”
- “Which accessories do I need?”
- “Compare these three.”
- “What else should I buy with this?”
- “I need three gifts under $50.”
Illustrative shopper requests. Answers and recommendations depend on the catalog, inventory, configured capabilities, and retailer permissions.
Commercial Value
The customer is trying to buy, not watch the AI think.
Speed is not a benchmark for its own sake. It protects the continuity of product discovery and purchase decisions. Every extra wait interrupts that decision. The goal is to keep the shopper moving.
- Less conversational friction
- Faster product discovery
- Faster answers to purchase questions
- Better continuity in the shopping journey
- Fewer dead-end interactions
- A faster path from question to product
The Latency Problem
Slow responses create friction at the point of purchase.
A shopper asking about size, availability, or product fit is already making a buying decision. A long pause introduces friction at exactly the wrong moment.
100 to 500 ms
Keep the buying decision moving
Most responses return in 100 to 500 ms. Warmed product lookups often complete in 80 to 140 ms, including responses that retrieve multiple product images and supporting text.
Do not let a slow answer become a lost buying opportunity.
“Do you have this in my size?”
“What's the difference between these two?”
“Is this available today?”
“What would you recommend with this?”
“Where is my order?”
Question
The shopper asks in the moment
Store context
OfferOpt checks current, permitted information
Answer or action
The shopper gets a useful next step
Independent Research
Seconds matter.
Independent research found that response latency above four seconds significantly degraded the experience and future-use intent in conversations with intelligent virtual agents.
Read the ACM study57%
favored agents assigned the study's 1.5-second response condition.
61%
disliked agents assigned the study's 6.5-second response condition.
Controlled study of 54 participants using LLM-powered embodied conversational agents. These were user-experience findings, not ecommerce conversion results.
Built for Retail Operations
Fast help grounded in the store your team already runs.
OfferOpt combines current commerce context, broad language support, and existing support workflows so retailers can improve shopping assistance without creating a long training project or another operational island.
Fast and Grounded
Fast is only useful when the answer is right.
Give shoppers answers grounded in permitted, current retail context instead of generic knowledge. A fast answer should still reflect the products, availability, policies, customer context, and order information the retailer authorizes.
Shoppers should not have to ask whether something is available and then discover the answer was stale.
- Active products, details, and variants
- Inventory and availability where supported
- Site knowledge and retailer policies
- Permitted customer and order context
Faster Time to Value
Go live without spending months teaching the model your store.
OfferOpt starts with the catalog, product information, site knowledge, commerce data, and approved knowledge sources your team already maintains. Configuration and validation are still required, but a retailer-specific model-training cycle is not.
- No retailer-specific training project
- Faster deployment and time to value
- Less operational burden
- Useful from initial deployment
Global Customer Experience
Serve shoppers in 100+ languages.
Extend product assistance across markets without building and maintaining a separate conversational experience for every language. Product, price, inventory, link, and policy facts remain grounded in retailer-authorized sources.
Some valid non-template languages use a bounded translation step and may take longer than the typical warm path.
- Consistent product help across regions
- Less localization work for retail teams
- 100+ language retrieval and classification
- Authoritative commerce facts across languages
Existing Support Operations
Keep the support system your team already knows.
OfferOpt handles the shopping conversation while supported systems such as Gorgias and Zendesk remain part of the retailer's existing support workflow. Add shopping intelligence without creating another support island.
- Gorgias integration
- Zendesk integration
- Live-agent handoff and escalation
- Context continuity where permitted
Customer and Order Context
Help the shopper with more than product search.
Where configured, supported, and permitted, OfferOpt can use customer, session, commerce, and order context to help the shopper move forward. Shopify authority, retailer permissions, and safeguards continue to govern access and actions.
- Order lookup and status
- Permitted order modifications
- Customer-aware assistance
- Questions informed by the active session
Shopify-Native Experience
Make it feel like part of the store.
Use Liquid storefront components and Shopify UI Builder integration to place and customize the assistant. Configure chat with simple buttons and text fields in Shopify admin.
- Shopify-native presentation
- Retailer-controlled components
- Supported UI customization
- Brand-consistent placement
One Customer Intelligence Platform
More than a chatbot.
AI Shopping Assistant is one capability inside the OfferOptics Customer Intelligence Platform. A shopping conversation can contribute to customer understanding, recommendations, commerce decisions, experiments, and measurement instead of ending as an isolated support interaction.
Every shopping interaction becomes part of the same intelligence and measurement loop.
Explore Customer IntelligenceCustomer Intelligence
Commerce Intelligence
Recommendation Intelligence
Offer Intelligence
Experimentation
Measurement
How It Works
Why the answers stay fast and grounded.
The technical design serves two customer outcomes: reduce unnecessary waiting and keep each answer within retailer-approved facts, permissions, and actions.
Performance Architecture
Use the shortest reliable path to the answer.
Common shopping requests use fast retrieval and classification paths. Generative or translation steps are reserved for interactions that need them, helping routine questions avoid unnecessary delay.
Most responses return in 100 to 500 ms. Warmed product lookups often complete in 80 to 140 ms, including lookups that return multiple product images and supporting text.
- Retrieval-first request handling
- Structured product retrieval
- Session continuity
- Bounded generation where needed
Retailer Authority
Check the answer against the systems that own the truth.
Product, availability, policy, customer, and action details are validated against permitted store context before the assistant presents an answer or takes a supported action.
- Catalog and availability grounding
- Policy and permission controls
- Supported action validation
- Retailer-governed access
Performance figures are typical internal measures, not an SLA. Network, provider, cold-cache, translation, and generative requests can take longer. Indexed retrieval p50 is at or below 100 ms.
See It in Your Business
Turn buying questions into an AOV opportunity.
See how OfferOpt protects buying momentum with fast, multilingual shopping assistance grounded in your own Shopify catalog and permitted commerce context.
Explore your AOV opportunity without changing your store. Qualified retailers may receive up to one month of complimentary full-platform access, subject to fit review, approval, and capacity.