AI · E-commerce · United States · Stripe
Ecommerce teams in the United States spend quarters on “AI shopping assistants” while the product page still has three adjectives and no dimensions. Chargebacks do not come from a missing chatbot. They come from a customer who received a different object than the one they thought they bought, or who could not find the refund rule.
Use AI where the cost of being slightly wrong is a copy edit. Keep humans where the cost is money, inventory, or a lawsuit.
Catalogue: generate from specs, lock the facts
Give the model a spec sheet: SKU, materials, measurements, what’s in the box, care, origin if you claim it. Ask for a 80-word benefit paragraph, a bullet list, and a size note. A merchandiser checks every number. If the model invents a “breathable mesh” you do not have, you are advertising a different product.
- Never generate from a photo alone. Photos lie; calipers do not.
- Banned claims unless legal signed off: medical, “guaranteed results,” competitor names you have not cleared.
- Keep a field in the admin: “human approved at.” Unapproved SKUs do not go live.
Support: classify first, refund never
The highest-ROI use of AI in a store is ticket tagging: where is my order, return, damaged, other. Route those to the right queue. Draft a reply from your actual shipping and refund pages — the same pages Stripe reviewers will open. An agent sends it. The model does not click refund, does not change an address, does not promise a delivery day UPS has not given you.
On-site Q&A that is allowed to say “I don’t know”
If you add chat, ground it in the live catalogue and the policy URLs. If stock is zero, it says out of stock. If the question is “can I get this by Friday,” it points at the shipping page, not a guess. “I don’t know — email us” is a successful answer. A invented arrival date is a dispute.
Merchandising and bundles
Use a model to propose “bought together” from order history, then a human curates. Do not auto-publish bundles that include discontinued SKUs. Do not let it write urgency (“only 2 left”) unless that number is live from inventory.
The Stripe and legal layer
Your storefront is incomplete without privacy, terms, refunds, and a business identity that matches the Stripe account: legal name, United States address, support email. AI copy on the product page does not replace that. We build the store, the checkout in USD, and the policies as one job. You own the code.
How I judge whether the idea is real
I ask three questions on the first call. What job did a person do last week that you want a machine to draft? Who checks the output before a customer sees it? What happens on Friday if we turn the feature off? If you cannot answer those, we are not ready to write a statement of work. We are ready to write the FAQ or the SOP first — and that is often the actual project.
I would rather decline a fashionable chatbot than ship something that lies about hours, stock, refunds or a diagnosis. The invoice has my company’s name on it. That is why the no’s are part of the work.
What you should have in writing before you pay anyone
The job in one sentence. The data the model may see. The human who confirms. The metric you will look at in 30 days. The kill switch. The legal name of the vendor. USD price and when the card is charged. Who owns the repo. If a vendor cannot put those on one page, you are buying a demo.
- Nothing is billed by us before you approve a written scope.
- Typical project billing is 50% to start and 50% on delivery, through Stripe.
- Code, design and prompts we write for you transfer on final payment.
The steps — do these in order
- 01
Lock a spec sheet per SKU
Materials, measurements, what’s in the box, care. No copy until the facts exist.
- 02
Generate descriptions from that sheet only
A merchandiser approves numbers and claims. Unapproved SKUs do not go live.
- 03
Publish refund, shipping and privacy pages
The same pages Stripe will open. AI cannot replace them.
- 04
Tag tickets before you draft tickets
Where is my order, return, damaged, other. Routing is the ROI. Chat is optional.
- 05
Draft from policy URLs, never from memory
An agent sends. The model does not refund, change addresses, or invent a delivery day.
- 06
If you add store chat, ground it in live stock
Out of stock means out of stock. “I don’t know” is a valid answer.
- 07
Ban fake urgency
“Only 2 left” only if inventory says so.
- 08
Review disputes monthly
If copy caused the dispute, fix the SKU, not the chatbot.
If you want this built as a site, a store, a portal or a production feature, write to me. We scope it on a page, we ship in weekly increments you can click, and you own the work. I will also tell you when the idea is a toy and we should not take your money.
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