Industry · D2C & e-commerce

Order verification and returns, on the phone.

Confirm COD orders, capture address corrections, run return intake — without making customers wait for a slot.

The problem

COD returns eat into D2C unit economics.

Cash-on-delivery RTO commonly runs 25–40% for Indian D2C brands. Half of that is buyers who didn't really mean to order, gave a bad address, or changed their mind. A short verification call before dispatch — in their language — recovers most of it.

Problem · Solution

The problem today

COD is still 60–70% of Indian D2C, and RTO on it commonly runs 25–40%. Each return is forward shipping + reverse shipping + restocking — for an order that often never wanted to happen. The same buyer who placed a shaky order at 11pm would have happily corrected the address or cancelled when called at noon — but no D2C team has the human bandwidth to call every COD before dispatch. Returns intake has the mirror problem: customers want to talk, your team wants structured data, and form-based returns leak both.

How Vocily AI handles it

  • Pre-dispatch COD verification

    Your OMS triggers a Vocily AI call for every new COD order. The call either clears the order or catches the ones that would have bounced.

  • Address correction at source

    Bad addresses are corrected in-call and written back to your OMS before the order is even handed to the courier.

  • Returns intake by voice

    Customers describe the issue in their own language; Vocily AI captures structured return reason, condition, and pickup preference.

  • Cart-abandonment recovery

    Cart abandoners get a recovery call with personalised context — what they left behind, current offer, and a payment link sent in-call.

  • OMS / WMS write-back

    Every outcome (confirmed / address updated / cancelled / pickup scheduled) writes back through your APIs so ops dashboards stay clean.

How the conversation runs

Conversation, then action.

Step 01

Trigger

Order placed, address ambiguous, return raised, cart abandoned.

Step 02

Conversation

Agent confirms or captures, with your APIs in the loop.

Step 03

Action

Vocily AI writes back to your OMS, CRM, or returns system.

OMS write-back
Step 04

Review

The execution record is the proof of conversation.

Listen in

A typical COD verification call.

Hindi

Namaste, BlueWear se hoon — aapne kal kurta order kiya tha COD pe, address confirm karna tha.

Haan, kar diya tha.

Address — Flat 4B, Green Park, Delhi 110016 — sahi hai?

Haan, par 4C kar do — galat type ho gaya.

4C ki jagah update kar diya. Delivery 3 din mein. Confirmation SMS aa jayegi.

Captures correction → OMS update

Illustrative — real call flows run end-to-end inside Vocily AI

Common questions

What teams ask before they switch.

Two patterns: your OMS fires a webhook on order-created so Vocily AI places the call, and Vocily AI writes outcomes (confirmed / cancelled / address-updated) back via your REST API. The endpoints and field mapping are set up with your team during onboarding.