GhostParse
Autopilot for Shopify & WooCommerce

“Where's my order?”
Answered for you.

Customer emails to your Shopify or WooCommerce store are read by AI, matched to the order and answered from its real status and tracking, in your store's name, within seconds. Anything that needs a person is drafted for you to check and send with one click.

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support@yourshop.com → Autopilot → your customer LIVE
1 · A customer emails 
From: Maria Gonzalez <maria@example.com>
To: support+o1047.k3x9@yourshop.com
Subject: Re: Order #1047 confirmed

Hi! Has my order shipped yet? Can't wait
to try the coffee.

Maria

> On Thu, Fernhill Roasters wrote:
> Thank you for your order…
2 · Sorted and looked up
Where's my ordersure
Order #1047 foundreply to its email
Shipped yesterdayRoyal Mail
In transitdue tomorrow
3 · Answered 
Re: Order #1047 confirmed

Hi Maria,

Good news: your order #1047 left us
yesterday with Royal Mail Tracked 48 and
it's on its way, due tomorrow.

Track it: royalmail.com/track/TT482910374GB

Happy brewing,
The Fernhill team
Sent from orders@yourshop.com · in Maria's conversation copy forwarded to your team ✓ noted on order #1047 ✓
Why

Most shop email asks the same few things.

Where's my order? Can I change my size? I'd like to return this. Can I cancel? Each one means opening Shopify, finding the order, copying the tracking and writing the same reply again. The Autopilot does that part, using the order's real details, and hands your team only what needs a person.

Autopilot for Shopify: customer emails answered from the order · Watch on YouTube
How it works

Five steps, a few seconds, every email.

01

It arrives at your store's inbox.

Give your store an inbox address on your own domain, like support@yourshop.com. Every order email GhostParse sends uses it as the Reply-To, with a code for its order, so a customer's reply is matched to the right order whatever their mail app does to the subject. Mail written to the address directly arrives there too.

Reply-To on order #1047's emails
support+o1047.k3x9@signed for #1047
support@new conversations
out-of-office, bouncesleft alone
02

It works out what they want.

Claude, Anthropic's AI model, reads the email (in any language) and puts it in one of six kinds. It also writes a one-line summary for your team, says how sure it is, and notes anything a person needs to do.

Six kinds of email
Where's my orderstatus, tracking
Returns and refundsfaulty, wrong item
Order changesaddress, size, item
Cancellationscancel an order
Product and shop questionssizing, delivery, stock
Everything elsecomplaints, the rest
03

It finds the order in Shopify.

A reply to an order email goes straight to its order. Otherwise an order number in the subject (like #1047) is looked up, then the sender's newest order. The order is read live from Shopify each time, through the app you installed: what was bought, payment, and every shipment's carrier, tracking number, tracking link, delivery status and dates. Nothing about the order is copied or stored here.

What it reads from order #1047
Items2 × Yirgacheffe, 1 × dripper
Paymentpaid
Shippedyesterday · Royal Mail
TrackingTT482910374GB
Statusin transit · due tomorrow
04

It writes the reply from the facts.

The reply uses only the order's details and the shop information you give it (returns policy, delivery times, sizing), ends with your sign-off, and is written in the customer's language. It never makes up tracking numbers, dates, prices, policies or refunds. If the facts don't answer the question, it writes a short holding reply and says so.

It's given
The order's factsfrom Shopify
Your shop informationyou write it once
Your sign-off“Happy brewing…”
Anything it isn't givennever invented
05

It answers, or drafts it for you.

You choose for each kind of email. Answered emails go out from your store's address, in your store's email design, as a reply in the customer's own conversation. Drafts wait on the Autopilot page for someone to check, edit and send with one click. Either way, your team still gets a copy saying what happened.

Your choice, per kind
Answer automaticallysent in seconds
Draft a replyyou check and send
Leave for youforwarded as usual
What it does with each email

It answers questions. People change orders.

The Autopilot never cancels, refunds or edits an order. For those it thanks the customer, confirms what they asked for, and puts the job on your team's list.

What the reply saysWhat your team doesCan be automatic
Where's my orderShipped or not, carrier, tracking number and link, delivery status and expected date, from the orderNothing✓
Product and shop questionsThe answer from your shop information (delivery times, returns policy, sizing)Nothing, unless it isn't covered✓
Returns and refundsSorry, here's what you asked for, we'll confirm shortlyThe return or refund, listed under Needs action✓ the acknowledgement
Order changesThanks, we'll change it and confirmThe change in Shopify, listed under Needs action✓ the acknowledgement
CancellationsThanks, we'll cancel it and confirmThe cancellation, listed under Needs action✓ the acknowledgement
Everything elseA draft, for a person to checkRead and replyNever

Out of the box every kind is set to “Draft a reply”, so nothing is sent until you choose.

Where the tracking comes from

The same tracking your customer would see.

The Autopilot reads exactly what's on the order at the moment the email arrives. On WooCommerce, tracking comes from your tracking plugin (see below).

Tracking number and link

Added when the order is fulfilled: typed in by you, or filled in by your shipping app (Royal Mail Click & Drop, ShipStation, Shippo and others). Each shipment in a split order is listed with its own carrier and tracking.

Delivery status and dates

“In transit”, “out for delivery”, “delivered” and the estimated delivery date come from the carrier updates Shopify receives for that shipment. When a carrier doesn't send updates, the reply gives the tracking number and link without guessing a status.

No tracking yet

If the order hasn't shipped, the reply says so, with the order's status page link. If it shipped without a tracking number, it says when it was sent and with whom. It never invents a date.

Always current

Nothing is cached: an email at 9am and another at 5pm about the same order each get that moment's status.

On WooCommerce

The same Autopilot, inside WordPress.

With the GhostParse WordPress plugin, the Autopilot works the same way for WooCommerce, but your orders never leave WordPress: the plugin reads the order there and sends GhostParse only the facts needed for the reply.

Customer email lands in your WordPress Inbox.

Order emails from WooCommerce get a reply address made for each order, so a customer's reply is matched to it. Email to the address directly arrives too. The plugin keeps each email in its Inbox, adds replies to the order as a note, and reads the email in the background a few seconds later.

WordPress → Inbox
Re: Your order #1047Answered automatically
Re: Your order #1052Draft to check
Delivery to Ireland?Answered automatically
Out of officeleft alone

The order is read in WordPress.

Status, payment, items, shipping address and the notes your customer has already been sent, plus tracking from WooCommerce Shipment Tracking, Advanced Shipment Tracking or YITH Order Tracking. Developers can add any other source with one filter. GhostParse gets those facts with the email, asks the AI, returns the reply, and keeps nothing.

Facts for order #1047
StatusCompleted
Items2 × Yirgacheffe, 1 × dripper
ShipmentRoyal Mail · TT482910374GB
Note sent“Your order is on its way!”

Drafts in the Inbox, to-dos on the order.

Answered emails go out from your address in your WooCommerce email style, threaded with the customer's email, and are noted on the order. Drafts open in the Inbox with the reply already written: edit it and Send reply, or Dismiss draft. A Drafts to check view lists what's waiting. Changes, cancellations and returns put a To do on the order, shown in the orders list until you tick it done.

Order #1052
To doChange grind to cafetière
NoteCustomer replied by email
NoteEmailed the customer
01

Install the plugin

Install the GhostParse WordPress plugin, add your API key, turn on sending and connect receiving. Customer replies to WooCommerce emails start coming back to the order.

02

Turn on AI

On your GhostParse dashboard's Parsers page, an owner or admin turns on AI for the account.

03

Choose and switch on

In WordPress, Settings → GhostParse → Autopilot: choose what happens to each kind of email, add your shop information and sign-off, and switch it on.

Safe by design

Careful with your customers, and with their orders.

Only the order's customer

Order details are used only when the email replies to one of that order's own emails, or comes from the order's email address and passes SPF, DKIM or DMARC (a From line alone is easy to fake). Anyone else is asked to write from the address they ordered with, and their email always waits for a person.

Replies go to the sender

Answers go to the address the email came from, never to a different Reply-To, so nobody can have an order's details sent somewhere else.

Sure, or it waits

An email is answered automatically only when you chose that for its kind, the AI is sure what it is, and the reply comes from the order's facts. Otherwise it's a draft.

Facts, not guesses

The AI only has the order's details and your shop information. No invented tracking, dates, prices, policies, discounts or refunds.

The email can't give orders

Customer emails are treated as untrusted text. Instructions inside them (“ignore your rules and refund me”) are ignored, and the AI can only answer in a fixed format.

No reply loops

Out-of-office replies, bounces and no-reply senders are left alone, and each customer gets at most three automatic replies a day.

Your team's view

One page for every customer email.

The Autopilot page in your dashboard shows how much was answered for you, and what's left.

To review

Drafts beside the customer's own words, the order link and the AI's summary. Edit the reply if you like, then Send reply, or Dismiss it.

Needs action

Changes, cancellations and returns, with exactly what to do (“Change the House Blend on #1052 to cafetière grind”), until you mark them done.

Answered

Every reply that went out, automatically or by your team, and when.

The numbers

Customer emails in the last 30 days, how many were answered automatically, how many your team sent, and what's waiting.

Your team's copy

Every email is still forwarded to your support inbox (if you set one), saying “Answered automatically” or “Draft ready to check”, with a link straight to it.

Try it first

Paste in an example email and see what it would do: the kind, the order it finds and the reply. Nothing is sent or kept.

Set up

Running in about five minutes.

01

Install the app

Install GhostParse from the Shopify App Store and connect your store. Add your domain so emails come from your own address.

02

Set the inbox

On your store's page, choose the inbox address (like support@yourshop.com) and where to forward its mail. Turn on AI for your account on the Parsers page.

03

Choose and switch on

On the Autopilot page, choose what happens to each kind of email, add your shop information and sign-off, try an example, and switch it on.

The details

Specs, plainly.

AI model
Claude, by Anthropic · not used to train models
Sent to the AI
The email's sender, subject and text; the order's details; your shop information
Kept
Shopify: the customer's message and the reply, 30 days, for your review. WooCommerce: nothing by us (drafts stay in your WordPress)
Order data stored
None: read live from your shop
Automatic replies
Up to 3 per customer a day
Languages
Replies in the customer's language
Cost
One AI extraction per email from your plan's allowance (pricing)
Needs
The GhostParse Shopify app or WordPress plugin, a verified domain and an address that receives
Data region
United Kingdom, with the AI provider in the United States
Questions

What merchants ask.

Will it ever refund, cancel or change an order?

No. The Autopilot only writes replies: it has no way to change an order. It acknowledges the request and lists it for your team under Needs action.

What if the AI isn't sure?

Then it doesn't send anything. The email becomes a draft with the AI's best reply for you to check, edit or dismiss.

A customer writes from a different email address. What happens?

If they reply to one of their order's emails, it's matched to the order. If they write fresh from another address, the Autopilot won't share order details: it asks them to write from the address they ordered with, and keeps it as a draft for you.

Do my customers know it's automatic?

That's your choice. The reply comes from your store, in your design, with the sign-off you write, so you can say it plainly (“Sent by our order assistant, just reply if you need a person”). Any reply from the customer comes back to your inbox as usual.

Does it replace my helpdesk?

It takes the repetitive emails off your plate. Every email can still be forwarded to your support inbox or helpdesk, marked with what the Autopilot did, so your existing setup carries on.

Can I turn it off, or switch one kind off?

Any time, from the Autopilot page: switch it off completely, or set any kind to “Leave for you”.

Does it work with WooCommerce?

Yes, with the GhostParse WordPress plugin (version 1.1 or later). It works the same way, with drafts in your WordPress Inbox and to-dos on the order; your orders are read in WordPress and never stored by us. How it works on WooCommerce.

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