Time-Off Coverage for a One-Person Shopify Support Team
PTO should not mean a dead inbox. An agent with caps is the coverage plan.

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PTO should not mean a dead inbox. An agent with caps is the coverage plan.

Give them the caps, the tags, the 3PL hours, and the escalate list. Not a 40-page culture deck.

The checkout is where seventy percent of ecommerce revenue disappears. Design fixes that recover sales without discounting.

If customers still have your Gmail, you do not have a helpdesk. You have a personality cult.

Overflow that does not know Shopify is just more people asking for order numbers.

L1 order actions, L2 exceptions, lead QA. If everyone is L1 forever, good people leave.

BPOs give you hours. They do not give you your voice or your refund discipline unless you write it.

Score facts, policy, action, and escalate-or-not. Stop scoring 'empathy' on a 1–5 nobody can repeat.

Not all AI chatbots are equal—what separates a real AI support agent from a glorified FAQ bot for Shopify stores.

Macros die when the return window changes and nobody edits the folder. Agents should read live URLs.

Week one should be Shopify admin, not brand adjectives. Refund paths before tone workshops.

Follow-the-sun, BPO nights, or an agent plus a daytime lead. Pick with ticket timestamps, not aesthetics.

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