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Local retail and online merchants

"Do you have this in stock?" is a sale waiting for an answer.

Where enquiries come from in your trade: Website and marketplace messages, Instagram and Facebook direct messages, WhatsApp, and phone calls during the rush.

The software experience

From customer request to next job action.

Drawn for retail and e-commerce: what the customer submits, what the workflow classifies, who acts, the work record, and the follow-up that makes sense for this business.

Swipe through the workflow →

1 · Customer question
Bulk, custom, stock or order-status
Fields change with the question type
Channel it came from
ReviewAdd photo
1Request

What the customer submits.

2 · New sale, existing order, or bulk/custom request
Stock truth comes from your system or a person
Bulk or custom flagged by an agreed rule
Channel recorded
OpenAdjust
2Understand

What the workflow classifies, without pretending to diagnose.

3 · Owner, customer-service or fulfilment lead (example roles)
Reserve, quote, answer or assign
One named owner
Reply drafted for review
CallMessage
3Act

Who is alerted and the immediate human action.

4 · Work record
Order record
Quote · Payment
Fulfilment or pickup status
ViewAssign
4Progress

The job, appointment, estimate or order record.

5 · Next action
Next customer action
Pickup, delivery or restock next action
Replenishment only where the product repeats, with consent
Follow upSnooze
5Continue

The next useful follow-up, repeat service or customer update.

ⓘ Illustrated example. Role names, fields and statuses are configurable examples; your workflow is designed and scoped before it is built.
Before

Five message channels checked at closing

→
After

the question type, owner and order action are visible immediately

Bulk or custom request

Try it

Run a sample retail and e-commerce enquiry. Watch what your team would see.

This runs in your browser only. Nothing is submitted, stored or sent. Change any value, then run it.

Sample form: Bulk, custom, stock or order-status

The fields your customer would see.

Your sample will appear here as the owner alert, the reply draft and the work record.
ⓘ Illustrated example. Role names, fields and statuses are configurable examples; your workflow is designed and scoped before it is built.

What this workflow needs from your current tools

Nothing is replaced. These are the connections we confirm in the scope.

Request source

Website, marketplace messages, Instagram, WhatsApp, Google questions.

Responder

Owner, customer-service or fulfilment lead.

Hand-off

Your store system for stock and orders.

Permissions

Consent for restock notifications.

To verify

Which channels expose messages to an integration for your account type.

Pricing

Three levels of personalisation for local retail and online merchants.

Most businesses start at level one. The review tells you which level fits; the quote puts the setup fee and the monthly fee in writing.

Level 1

Ready workflow

The core enquiry workflow, configured and tested on the channels agreed in your scope for local retail and online merchants.

  • One alert stream for messages across channels, your branding.
Level 2

Tailored to your process

The same workflow shaped around how your team actually handles requests.

  • Bulk and custom-order flagging by your rule, stock-question templates, order-status separation.
Level 3

Bespoke build

A custom application for a business with its own way of working.

  • Store-system integration, optional repeat-purchase nudges, channel-level reporting.
How pricing works. Every engagement has a one-time setup fee and a recurring monthly maintenance fee. The setup fee depends on the level of personalisation: a ready workflow costs least, a bespoke build most. The monthly fee covers hosting, monitoring, changes and support. Both figures are agreed in writing after the 15-minute review and before any work starts. If the agreed minimum cannot be delivered, the setup fee is refunded.

How an engagement runs

Review, scope, setup, live.

  1. A 15-minute process review

    We map where your enquiries enter, who is alerted, and what happens when the first reply is missed. You receive a one-page comparison of your public enquiry path against local peers, yours to keep whether or not we go further.

  2. A written one-page scope and quote

    The level of personalisation, what will be set up, what it will not do, what "working" means for your business, the setup fee and the monthly fee. Agreed in writing before any work starts.

  3. Setup, then a live pilot

    Setup is completed and tested with your team over screen share. The workflow runs live for an agreed period while we measure response times against your starting point.

  4. Remote delivery in your hours

    Calls, setup and support are scheduled in your business hours, by phone or video. You never have to adapt to ours.

Map my workflow.

Email a sentence about how enquiries reach you today. You will get two time slots in your business hours and, after the call, the one-page comparison and a written quote, whether or not we go further.

Email ijas@multipleconsult.info
Multiple Consult
Ijas
TRA 164, Thuruthiyil Street,
Thottumukam, Aluva,
Kerala 683101, India
ijas@multipleconsult.info