AI AGENTS FOR RETAIL

Ready for every shopper, human or AI.

NiCE Cognigy AI agents handle orders, returns and product questions 24/7, and get your brand ready for the AI agents that now shop for them.

Ready for every shopper, human or AI.

Mister Spex: AI agents in production

88%

of return label requests fully automated

70%

caller verification rate

30

seconds saved per call

Leading retail brands trust NiCE Cognigy

Our C-Level executives, service teams, and customers alike have embraced the Al phone agent solution and acknowledge the positive impact on customer experiences. The results are excellent and achieved in just a 3-month window after Go-Live.

Rose Schenk

Head of Service Excellence, Mister Spex

AI agents designed for retail and e-commerce

Pre-built AI agents for the requests retail and e-commerce contact centers handle most, from order tracking to exchanges and delivery.

Order tracking

Exchanges and refunds

Recommendations

Delivery options

Product search

Abandoned cart recovery

Promotions

Notifications

In-store assistance

AI agents at work in Lidl stores

AI agents work as in-ear voice assistants for Lidl employees. Staff use voice commands to check product details and stock levels, and to open or close cash registers.

Recognized with Top Supplier Retail 2025 Award from the EHI Retail Institute.

COMMERCE

AI along the whole customer journey

From FAQs to transactions: Help customers decide quickly, and capture demand to nurture.
Promotions: Raise order values with personalized offers.
Interactive advertising: Let customers ask questions inside an ad, in real time.

SCALABILITY

Effortlessly handle high volumes

20,000+ concurrent sessions: Service stays available and effective, even during major events.

10,000+ interactions per minute: At Christmas, on Black Friday or in an unexpected surge, customers get immediate support, not multi-hour hold times.

AI agents that scale: Stop scaling service with short-term hires. AI agents work around the clock on every channel, so your experienced agents can focus on high-value issues.

PROACTIVE

Build loyalty with proactive engagement

Post-sales support: Spot problems early and resolve them before customers notice.

Loyalty programs: Keep customers engaged with their reward status and how to use their perks.

Reviews: Make it easy for happy customers to share their experience.

Woman trying on glasses in front of a mirror

CUSTOMER STORY

Mister Spex: 88% of return label requests automated.

Mister Spex, one of Europe's leading online eyewear retailers, serves over 7 million customers in 10 countries.

Even with careful forecasting, unpredictable spikes and agent shortages kept stretching service, so it added AI agents to its workforce. It started small, with a high-volume, low-complexity issue that easily overwhelms contact centers: where-is-my-order (WISMO) calls.

A voice AI agent identifies the caller's intent, runs ID&V and routes the customer to a human agent or a self-service process. The results came within three months.

EBOOK

From clicks to conversations with agentic commerce

AI agents are taking over discovery, decisions and buying, and the old rules of e-commerce are breaking fast.

Find out what being agent-ready really takes, and how to stay visible and competitive.

Loved by customers

Excellent Choice for Complex Conversational AI at Scale

5.0

The use of Cognigy AI has allowed us to build several bots, use cases and integrations at scale for different companies at once...

Research and Development · 30B+ USD · Transportation

Gartner Peer Insights

Feature-rich, and Stable Platform to Build a Sophisticated and Complex Product

5.0

Cognigy have provided exemplary support which is key to deploying sophisticated and complex solutions...

Software Development · <50M USD · Healthcare & Biotech

Gartner Peer Insights

Best Conversational AI Platform!

5.0

Fantastic experience! Very responsive team and delivering new innovation quickly. The NLU is the best in the market and is extremely easy to build bots/virtual agents.

Product Management · 1B–3B USD · Telecommunication

Gartner Peer Insights

The Highly Interactive and Profitable Customer Interaction System

5.0

Cognigy.AI; is a complete enterprise conversational platform that we use daily to automate our interaction with our customers...

Data and Analytics · 30B+ USD · Retail

Gartner Peer Insights

Bring Your Conversational AI Strategy To The Next Level With Less Code

5.0

We are using Cognigy since a year and have around 20 chatbots and 3 voicebots on the platform with above 1 million conversations...

Customer Service & Support · 500M–1B USD · Energy & Utilities

Gartner Peer Insights

Most Flexible Conversation AI Platform

5.0

The platform is a breeze to use. The set-up is done very quickly and it's all low code...

Data and Analytics · 1B–3B USD · Transportation

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Frequently asked questions

What is an AI agent?

AI agents are human-like virtual agents, built on conversational and generative AI, that automate customer service across chat and voice. They deliver instant, personal support in over 100 languages and integrate with enterprise systems. They come with industry-specific skills and emotional intelligence, use your service knowledge and processes, and work alongside human agents with real-time assistance, knowledge lookups, next best actions and sentiment analysis.

Can chatbots be used for e-commerce?

Yes, and AI agents go further than chatbots. They handle inquiries 24/7, recommend products, track orders, manage returns and cross-sell based on customer preferences, on websites, apps and messaging platforms. They take routine work off human agents, so you can scale support without scaling costs.

What is conversational AI in e-commerce?

Conversational AI in e-commerce uses natural language processing (NLP) and generative AI to hold human-like conversations with shoppers. AI agents and voice assistants recommend products, answer questions, help at checkout and handle order tracking and returns, on websites, apps and messaging platforms.

How can conversational AI be used in e-commerce?

It answers FAQs, recommends products, manages order questions and smooths checkout. It also handles returns, refunds and subscriptions, personalizes offers from customer data and works across channels and languages, 24/7.

AI agents for retail & e-commerce. Proven in production.

Get agents live, and keep them that way.
Any volume. One governed workforce.