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E-commerce — Where Your Store Leaks Money

Most stores don't lose the sale at checkout — they lose it everywhere else. The 4 quiet leaks costing you orders every day, and the fix for each.

June 6, 2026 · 4 min readDownload the PDF

Most stores don't lose the sale at checkout. They lose it everywhere else.

70%

of carts are abandoned (70.2% avg) — and nearly 1 in 5 orders comes back as a return (19.3%).

Source: Baymard + NRF/Happy Returns, 2025

The 4 places your store leaks money

1

“Where's my order?” all day, forever → instant answers from your own order data

2

The 11pm shopper nobody answered a quarter of orders land in the evening (ECDB, 2024) → 24/7 answers

3

Full cart, then they vanish 39% abandon over surprise costs (Baymard, 2025) → a recovery flow in minutes

4

One return becomes three messages 82% say easy returns decide if they buy again (NRF, 2025) → guided self-serve returns

It answers only from your data — FAQ, prices, policies, order status — and hands off to a human when unsure. It never guesses.

Run the numbers on your own store

Every figure above is published research (Baymard, NRF, ECDB); any helpdesk-vendor numbers are flagged as such inside the brief. Send us your 5 most-asked questions and we'll show you where the leaks are — no pitch.

Want to see where your store leaks before you spend a cent? We map it free.

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