Answer customer questions faster | Flowstead
The customer service colleague
05 · Customer questionsThe customer service colleague

Answer customer questions faster, straight from your own ERP

Where is my order? Can you add something? Can I have the certificate? The digital colleague looks it up in your ERP and prepares the answer. Only the exceptions still reach your desk.

The customer service colleague
Digital colleague · Customer questions
Example
Outlook
Customer service inbox · Voorbeeld Metaal BV
Can you add 10 more to order 4471?
New
Order looked upfromExactExact
  • Order
  • Stock
  • Change
  • Reply
Exact

A question from a customer.

What does the digital colleague do with customer questions?

Most questions are answered quickly, if you know where to look. The digital colleague reads the question, looks up the order, the status and the documents, and writes a reply in your tone of voice. If something needs to change, such as a quantity or a delivery date, it prepares that change too.

01

Understand the question

Which order, which customer and what exactly is being asked.

02

Look up in your ERP

Status, delivery date, stock and documents, directly from your own systems.

03

Prepare the reply

A draft reply in your own mailbox and, where needed, an updated order.

Start to finish

One question, from email to reply

At 09:05 a customer asks whether 10 more can be added to an order. This is how the reply is ready before anyone has read the email.

Running
Received

Question received

From the customer service inbox

Outlook
Re: order 4471
via Outlook · from Voorbeeld Metaal BV
Idle
Read

Question understood

What does the customer want?

Idle
Look up

Order looked up

From Exact

Idle
Prepare

Change and reply ready

In Exact and Outlook

The result appears once every step is done.
Your team approves · Example · names and numbers are made up
You stay in control

You decide what a person sees

Approving takes one click. Once it keeps going right, you only see the exceptions.

  • At first you approve everything

    At first you see every reply before it goes to your customer.

  • A rule per check

    For each check you decide whether to see it always or only if something deviates. We agree together what may proceed without approval.

  • Everything traceable

    Every step is recorded. Each reply can be traced back to the question and the data it is based on.

Digital colleague
Settings · Customer questions
Example
When do you want to review?
  • Order status questionAlwaysOn deviation
  • Document requestAlwaysOn deviation
  • Order changeAlwaysOn deviation
  • Complaint or returnAlwaysOn deviation
A change applies to the next piece of work
Your own systems

Works in what you already have

It works in your own mailbox and ERP. Nothing needs to move and nothing is replaced.

  • Business CentralBusiness Central
  • ExactExact
  • SAPSAP
  • AFASAFAS
  • Ridder iQRidder iQ
  • IsahIsah
  • OdooOdoo
  • InforInfor
  • Oracle NetSuiteOracle NetSuite
  • BoltricsBoltrics
  • SalesforceSalesforce
  • HubSpotHubSpot
  • OutlookOutlook

During the back office scan, we determine together which connections you need and what is possible in your environment.

Frequently asked questions

Questions about answering customer questions

Can AI answer customer questions from email?

Yes. A Flowstead digital colleague reads customer questions in your mailbox, looks up the answer in your ERP and prepares a draft reply. Someone on your team checks and sends it.

Does the digital colleague send replies to customers itself?

No email goes to a customer without your team's approval. The reply is ready in your own mailbox; you send it.

Which questions can it answer?

Questions about order status and delivery dates, quantity or delivery date changes, and requests for documents such as certificates or packing slips. For complaints or returns it prepares the available information; your team handles the case.

Does it write in our tone?

Yes. We teach it your email tone at the start. Every edit your team makes is recorded so the next reply comes closer.

Does it work in our shared mailbox?

Yes. The digital colleague works in your own Outlook mailbox, including shared mailboxes. Customers receive replies from the address they know.

Back office scan

First, find out where things can improve.

Introductory conversationHalf a day on siteRoadmap

Not sure where to start? An introductory conversation with management and your back office, followed by half a day with your own orders and documents, helps us identify opportunities. You receive a roadmap per process, prioritised by impact and investment.

The scan is available as a standalone service. The roadmap is yours, even if you do not continue with us.