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AI shopping assistant
that helps customers buy

A shopper says what they need. Your assistant understands the request, searches your live catalog, answers the follow-up, and helps them add the right product to cart.

Free 14-day trial No credit card required AI agent included

AI shopping assistant recommending suits from a live Shopify catalog inside the customer inbox AI shopping assistant recommending suits with prices and add-to-cart buttons in chat

Understands the request

It picks up the product, purpose, preferences, and limits in a shopper's own words.

Finds the right products

It searches your real catalog and explains why each recommendation fits.

Helps close the sale

It answers the doubt, adds the product to cart, or brings in a teammate.

Over 35,000 brands are already selling through the service with Text

ToyotaS&P GlobalUnileverHuaweiMotorola SolutionsAdobePayPalKPMGHyundaiLGMcDonald'sMercedes-Benz

From “I need…” to “Add to cart”

Meet Maya. She needs sunglasses for a hiking trip, wants a light frame, and has a budget. She explains it once. The assistant carries the request through.

A shopper comparing sunglasses recommended by an AI shopping assistant in chat AI shopping assistant recommending lightweight sunglasses for a hiking trip

The conversation starts with the need, not a menu

Maya can ask naturally: “I need light sunglasses under $100 for a sunny hiking trip.” No categories to guess, filters to stack, or script to follow.

AI shopping assistant recognizing a shopper's product, budget, and use-case requirements

It hears every constraint

Hiking, low weight, bright conditions, and price all shape the shortlist. The assistant keeps those details in view as the conversation changes.

Customer profile with contact details, orders, browsing status, and recent conversations

It knows who is asking

Customer details, past orders, recent conversations, and the live cart help it give a useful answer without making Maya repeat herself.

AI shopping assistant connected to a store website, product catalog, and shipping information

Checks the live catalog

It looks for products that are available now and match the purpose, features, and price.

AI shopping assistant recommending two sunglasses with prices and add-to-cart buttons

Makes the choice clear

It narrows the options and explains why each one fits, so Maya can decide without opening ten tabs.

It keeps selling all the way to checkout

Finding the product is only the first decision. The assistant keeps the shopper's context and your product facts in view as the conversation moves toward a purchase.

Compare the finalists

Bring the details that matter into one reply and explain the tradeoffs against the shopper's priorities.

Answer buying questions

Answer questions about shipping, returns, warranty, care, or protection from your own content.

Remember the shopper

Use the current cart, location, past orders, and recent conversations to keep the next reply relevant.

Pull real product details

Price, availability, variants, and product attributes keep answers and recommendations accurate.

Offer a well-timed deal

Share the bundle or checkout offer you have defined, at the moment it can help the decision.

Turn out-of-stock into a sale

Capture a back-in-stock request or guide the shopper to the closest available alternative.

A sale when it can, a teammate when it should

The assistant keeps routine shopping conversations moving and recognizes the moments that need human judgment.

AI shopping assistant bringing a human teammate into a shopping conversation

Hard cases reach your team

Set the handoff rules yourself. A special request, sensitive issue, or anything outside the assistant's limits goes to your team.

One inbox containing AI chats, human replies, and tickets with the full conversation history

The full history comes with it

AI chats, human replies, and tickets stay together. The teammate sees what the shopper wanted, what was recommended, and what happened next.

From the first request to the final handoff, the shopper stays in one connected conversation.

Put it on your store

The payoff shows up in the numbers

Results reported by brands that run their customer conversations on Text.

Wembley

$1.5M

Revenue after 8 months

Sephora

+25%

Average order value

Stratco

80%

AI resolution rate

You decide how it behaves

Give it the same essentials you would give a new teammate: knowledge, a voice, clear instructions, and limits.

Training an AI shopping assistant on store pages, product information, and help content

Teach it your store

Connect your website, product pages, and help center. The assistant uses that content to answer accurately.

AI shopping assistant using professional, concise, polite, friendly, and casual brand voice settings

Make every reply sound like you

Set the tone, answer length, and wording so the shopping experience stays consistent with your brand.

Language settings with an option to allow all languages or select specific ones for the assistant

Choose the languages

Decide which languages the assistant can use with shoppers.

Skill settings with toggles for actions like transferring to a human and handling tickets

Write the instructions

Describe when it should recommend, offer, transfer, or stop, in plain language.

Analytics report showing earned sales, AI agent sales, and total cases against the previous period

Review the outcome

See which conversations it resolved and where the experience needs work.

From signup to store associate in minutes

Connect what the assistant needs, set the rules, and let it start helping shoppers. No coding required.

Create your account

Start the free 14-day trial with your business email. No credit card required.

Connect your store

Bring product, customer, cart, and order data into the conversation.

Add your knowledge

Point it to your store pages and help content so answers stay grounded.

Set it live

Choose the instructions and skills, then start the first shopping conversation.

AI shopping assistant, in plain terms

An AI shopping assistant is an online helper that guides shoppers to the right product and answers their questions in chat, much like a great store associate. It works from your catalog and help content, so it recommends real items and gives answers grounded in your business.

How is it different from a chatbot?

Older store chatbots hand shoppers a menu of buttons and a set of canned replies. An AI shopping assistant holds an actual conversation: it reads a request written in plain language, weighs the shopper's context, and keeps moving toward a purchase instead of stopping at a help article.

Where do its answers come from?

Two sources you control: the knowledge you give it (your site, product pages, and help center) and a live link to your store. That is why a single reply can quote a real return policy, surface an in-stock product, and check an order at once, then pass the chat to a teammate when a request falls outside what it should handle.

What does it cost to run?

Most tools price by usage, so the cost tracks how many conversations you let it handle rather than a flat per-seat fee. With Text you can start free for 14 days without a card, connect your store, and weigh the revenue it brings against the price before you commit.

Frequently Asked Questions

An AI shopping assistant is software that chats with your online shoppers in plain language to help them find products, answer their questions, and finish their purchase. It learns your catalog and help content, so its answers and product picks stay accurate, around the clock. Unlike a basic chatbot, it understands what a shopper means, it can take action, and it passes the chat to a human when needed.

It helps shoppers find the right product, answers questions about sizing, shipping, and stock, and steps in with an offer when someone hesitates. It works from your own store data, so replies are specific to each shopper. When a case needs a human, it hands over the conversation with the full history attached.

Yes. It answers buying questions the moment they come up, recommends products that fit what the shopper wants, and steps in with a nudge or an offer before a shopper leaves. Sephora reports a 25% lift in average order value with Text, and Wembley reports $1.5M in revenue after eight months.

The best one works from your real store data instead of alongside it. Look for three things: product recommendations pulled from your live catalog, an assistant that takes action instead of only answering, and a clean handoff to a human for the hard cases. Text does all three and starts with a free 14-day trial, so you can judge it in your own store.

Yes. The chat widget runs on any website, and native connections cover popular platforms like Shopify. You can add it with a code snippet, a plugin, or a no-code builder, so it fits the store you already have.

A virtual shopping assistant is another name for an AI shopping assistant: an online helper that guides shoppers to the right product and answers their questions in chat. The goal is the same as a great in-store associate, available on your website at any hour.

A basic chatbot follows a script and answers with set replies. An AI shopping assistant understands what a shopper means in their own words, recommends products from your catalog, takes action like checking stock or sharing a code, and hands the chat to a person when the moment calls for it. In short, a chatbot answers, an AI shopping assistant helps the shopper buy.

You train it on your website, product pages, and help center, then connect your store so it can read live product, cart, and order data. When a shopper asks a question, it reads the intent, pulls the right answer or product, and replies in plain language. If the request needs a person, it transfers the chat with context so nobody repeats themselves.

Pricing is usually monthly and scales with your volume. With Text, every plan starts with a free 14-day trial and no credit card, so you can connect your store and measure the sales it brings before you pay anything.

Create a free account, point the assistant at your website and help center, and add the chat widget to your site. Connecting a store like Shopify takes a few clicks, and no coding is required. Once it is live, it starts answering and recommending right away.

No. It handles the routine questions so your team does not have to, and it brings a person in for anything that needs a human touch. Your team spends its time on the conversations that matter most, with full context in hand.

Yes. Every plan starts with a free 14-day trial, no credit card required. Connect your store during the trial and see how many conversations turn into sales.

Turn the next question into a purchase

Free 14-day trial No credit card required AI agent included