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Scout ‑ 1 on 1 Customer Alerts

Scout ‑ 1 on 1 Customer Alerts

by How Many Steps Inc.

More Sales through Personal 1-to-1 Conversations

4.8 of 5 stars(142 reviews)
Free plan available
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Better Order Recovery

Data shows Phone & SMS recover more orders than just email. If visitors leave their # Scout alerts you about it with Phone and SMS actions.

Higher Customer Retention

Scout builds trust. Merchants enjoy 3x higher customer lifetime value when they contact the right customer at the right time through Scout.

Slack, Messenger & Email Alert

Scout watches your store 24/7 - recommends actions through Messenger, Slack & Email to deliver the best retail customer experience possible.

About Scout ‑ 1 on 1 Customer Alerts

What is Scout?

Scout is a personal assistant that will recover more abandoned checkouts, reduce abandoned carts, retain more of your best customers, and increase customer lifetime value (LTV).

Scout watches for relationship building opportunities and recommends the right actions you should take, directly through it’s Facebook or Slack chat with you. It will make sure you’re developing the right relationship with the right customers at the right time.

What Scout can do:

  • Alert you when a customer abandoned checkout and give you recovery actions
  • Alert you when customers make a repurchase so you can say “thanks” to build loyalty
  • Alert you when a customer becomes a “VIP” and makes a huge order
  • Remind you about follow-ups, so you can proactively make up-sales and re-sells
  • New customer alerts so you can start new brand relationships right!

Phone

The 1-on-1 phone conversation is by far the best way to recover abandoned checkouts. Recovery is much easier when you have a dialogue with customers and learn the reasons they abandoned the order. It works especially well for high ticket items and niche products where customers likely have questions or concerns. Furniture, art, designer fashion, just to name a few. It's not enough to just recover carts, you need to learn why so you don't lose future checkouts for the same reasons.

SMS

SMS is a great channel not only for order recovery, but also for post-sale customer support. It’s always a good idea to say thank you to customers. Getting a personal “thank you” from your business is sure make your customers feel appreciated.

WhatsApp

Like SMS, the WhatsApp channel is great for easy 1-on-1 conversations. It's great because of the richer communication both you and your customer can share. Send videos, images, and longer texts for high levels of engagement. For example, we have a furniture retailer in Malaysia that’s recovering 75% of their abandoned checkouts through WhatsApp, check the story on our blog.

Email

When customers don’t leave a phone number, Scout will give you the right actions to take through email. You can send Checkout Recovery, Thank You, and even Follow-up emails. In our experience the Phone, SMS and WhatsApp channels work even better when you combine them with 1-on-1 personalized emails.

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About Us

We are a Toronto based ecommerce app company. Our belief is that customer relationships are the key competitive advantage for small businesses. With the rise of online shopping, 1-on-1 conversations are falling to the way-side. Our mission is to make it easier for busy retailers to deliver the perfect personalized conversations. After all, Relationships = Revenue!

Also, check the other apps we've built!

Integrates with

  • Facebook Messenger,
  • slack,
  • whatsapp

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Explore how the app works in an example store.

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Pricing

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Free Plan

Free

  • Up to 100 customer alerts (all-time)

  • Email alerts

  • Facebook Messenger Alerts

  • Slack Alerts

  • Email Support (within 24 hours)

Basic Plan

$9/month

or $7.50/month billed at $90 once per year

  • Unlimited customer alerts (all-time)

  • Custom Integrations

  • Email alerts

  • Facebook Messenger Alerts

  • Slack Alerts

  • Email Support (within 24 hours)

* All charges are billed in USD. Recurring charges, including monthly or usage-based charges, are billed every 30 days.

Overall rating
4.8 of 5 stars
 Based on 142 reviews

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  • 4 of 5 stars
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  • 3 of 5 stars
    1% of ratings are 3 stars
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  • 2 of 5 stars
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Most recent reviews

OdiKala

Rating
4 of 5 stars
Posted
December 13, 2019

One of the very helpful apps, Just one thing is that it shows some orders or abandoned cart messages very late. Other than that it is a must-have plugin.

Developer reply

December 13, 2019

Thanks for the feedback! We're currently working to improve the speed of alerts now. We attracted a lot more installs than we anticipated the last year and a half and it slowed our servers down a lot. Being a mostly free app, it made it harder to afford the faster processes and the bigger loads. We are planning on upgrading our technology across the board in the coming months so stay tuned! Thanks again for your support, I know you've had our app installed for almost three years now, and we hope to keep you on board for much longer - lots of new exciting features are on their way ;)

Keco Tabs

Rating
5 of 5 stars
Posted
November 14, 2019

Awesome app that has had amazing results selling large purchases into a niche b2b market. Like everyone, we had some initial fears over calling abandoned carts but being a premium brand in a niche market means that we always get a warm welcome and have a high rate of success. The team at HMS has been great at responding to our support and feature requests.

Boketo

Rating
5 of 5 stars
Last edited
November 7, 2019

I needed a very good conversation from Canada Chile with the app owner to understand the usefulness of the app, if you want to improve your customer service and make a difference, then the app has a focus on personalization and a delicate relationship with your customer, Thanks!

Developer reply

November 6, 2019

Hi Loreto. I do appreciate you taking the time to leave this review. I would however just like to clarify that our app is focused on the 1 on 1 relationship for cart recovery and customer retention. We do allow you to send email, SMS and WhatsApp, as well as phone calls, but those are initiated by you. We send you the reminder, and then we give you the appropriate buttons to send the messages/make the calls easily, but also personally. We know through our data that the 1 on 1 conversation, personal conversation, does a MUCH better job for sales than the automated toosl, which is what I'm assuming you are looking for. If you're looking for automation, that's not what we do, nor do we claim to be an automation tool. I hope this helps and that you'd give our app another try :)

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