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D2C apparel
Koravi

From WhatsApp chaos to a 4× revenue line

A Bangalore-based ethnic-wear D2C brand replaced their three-spreadsheet, two-agent WhatsApp workflow with InboxChange's multi-tenant inbox + Shopify automations — and saw their abandoned-checkout recovery rate go from 4% to 19%, while support team headcount stayed flat through a 3× sales jump.

+375%
Abandoned checkout recovery rate
4% → 19%
-95%
First response time
47 min → <2 min
+165%
Support tickets per agent / day
23 → 61
new
Monthly revenue from WhatsApp
₹0 → ₹38L
+145%
Repeat customer rate (90-day)
11% → 27%

THE CHALLENGE

What was breaking before InboxChange

  • Founder was personally replying to product enquiries from a personal WhatsApp, often at midnight. Inbox was a chaos of seven team members all forwarding screenshots of customer messages to a shared Google Group.
  • Shopify was sending email-only abandoned checkout reminders. Email open rates were ~14%; the team knew the same message on WhatsApp would convert better but had no way to wire it.
  • No visibility into which customer service rep handled what. Repeat customers got conflicting answers from different reps. Refund requests would routinely get lost.
  • Cash flow was opaque — they knew monthly Shopify revenue but had no margin number per channel, no idea if WhatsApp Marketing was paying for itself.

WHAT WE BUILT

The fix, deployed in 5 months

  • Migrated from personal WhatsApp to InboxChange's multi-agent inbox connected via Meta Cloud API. All inbound messages now route to a shared queue with assignment, tags, and internal notes.
  • Wired Shopify connector to InboxChange. Enabled 4 recipes: Order confirmation (instant), Shipped tracking, Abandoned checkout (3-message drip), and 30-day reorder reminder.
  • Built three drip sequences for new customer onboarding, post-purchase review request, and VIP loyalty (3+ orders) using the visual flow editor.
  • Set up the Knowledge Base with 14 entries covering sizing, fabric, return policy, COD availability, and delivery times — Gemini answers free-text questions in 2 seconds.
"We went from 'WhatsApp is a chore' to 'WhatsApp is our highest-converting channel' in less than a quarter. The 30-day reorder automation alone pays for the platform 8× over."
KO
Anjali Mehrotra
Founder, Koravi

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