Providing solutions to customer's issue before they even ask for assistance

Providing solutions to customer's issue before they even ask for assistance

Providing solutions to customer's issue before they even ask for assistance

Back Market is an online platform dedicated to refurbished electronic products, providing an affordable and sustainable alternative while reducing electronic waste..

Antoine Puig, Senior Product Designer at Back Market, briefed us on one of their recent business challenges related to Customer Care.

98% of the tickets require
human intervention.

12% retention on the app 30 days after download

Only 12% retention on the app 30 days after download

31% of customers use the after-sale service.

The challenge

How can we minimize human intervention by Back Market agents in adressing issues related to orders and products ?

Benchmark

Learning from competitors

We went through various competitors Customer services to understand the basics needs of an assistance service.

Oscaro.com is an online retailer specializing in automobile parts & accessories

📄 Listing of issues

🤖 Automation of Solutions

Devialet is a French audio tech company known for its high-end speakers & amplifiers

👌 Premium Customer service

Fnac.com is an online retail platform for cultural products like books, CDs, tech etc…

🪜 Profile Management

📝 Layout

Oscaro.com is an online retailer specializing in automobile parts & accessories

📄 Listing of issues

🤖 Automation

of Solutions

Devialet is a French audio tech company known for its high-end speakers & amplifiers

👌 Premium Customer

service

Fnac.com is an online retail platform for cultural products like books, CDs, tech etc…

🪜 Profile Management

📝 Layout

Oscaro.com is an online retailer specializing in automobile parts

& accessories

📄 Listing of issues

🤖 Automation of Solutions

Devialet is a French audio tech company known for its high-end speakers & amplifiers

👌 Premium Customer service

Fnac.com is an online retail platform for cultural products like books, CDs, tech etc…

🪜 Profile Management

📝 Layout

USER REASEARCH

On the User's side

We conducted qualitative and quantitative interviews to define user's needs in terms of Customer service.
Our priorities during these interviews were to :

Identify frustrations encountered when reaching out to an agent

Identify areas for improvement

Understand customer care usage based on profiles

Understand customer care usage based on profiles

Identify frustrations encountered when reaching out to an agent

Identify areas for improvement

Erwan, 53

Maud, 29

Laurence, 63

Diane, 31

Louna, 22

Qualitative Study : Users Interviews

Interviews

Video calls

Video calls

80%

20%

5 peoples

22-63 y/o

Semi-guided interviews

Semi-guided
interviews

Benefits :

Understand user’s emotions

Flexibility for users

Depth and Detail

Quantitative Study : Online Survey

Online Survey

Web

45 answers

21-65 y/o

Open & closed questions

Benefits :

Efficient Data Collection

Easy Distribution

Anonymity for user’s

What have we learned ?

These are the key insights that will guide us to the first version of our prototype :

  • Users desire a responsive, transparent, and personalized service.

    “A responsive service; when I have an issue, I get myself worked up to contact them, and it's cool if I get a response within 24 hours. Responsiveness is the key factor.”

  • The product price influences user's expectations regarding the quality of customer support.

    “When you pay a certain price, you expect a corresponding level of post-purchase service.”

  • Users prefer their issues to be handled by humans.

    “The absence of human contact can be a source of frustration. When an issue becomes more unique, the absence of personal interaction is regrettable.”

  • Users desire a responsive, transparent, and personalized service.

    “A responsive service; when I have an issue, I get myself worked up to contact them, and it's cool if I get a response within 24 hours. Responsiveness is the key factor.”

  • The product price influences user's expectations regarding the quality of customer support.

    “When you pay a certain price, you expect a corresponding level of post-purchase service.”

  • Users prefer their issues to be handled by humans.

    “The absence of human contact can be a source of frustration. When an issue becomes more unique, the absence of personal interaction is regrettable.”

Maud, 29

Maud, 29

Laurence, 63

Laurence, 63

Louna, 22

Louna, 22

Diane, 31

Diane, 31

Erwan, 53

Erwan, 53

HOW MIGHT WE ?

How can we help customers to solve their issues before they even ask for assistance ?

Business REASEARCH

Analyzing Data claims

Datas we received from Back Market :

The list of claims categories and their monthly occurrence.

The detailed list of claims, categorized under 'Customer Issues' (150 entries).

Orders are mostly made from mobile browser explorer.

In real condition we could collaborate with data analysts, to rearrange this list of Customer Issues chronologically and proportionnaly.
By doing so we could predict which claims are more likely to be raised.

This "pre-shot" concept is the core of our solution.

List of all possible Claims

Step 1

Step 1

Step 1

Order + 0 day

Order + 0 day

Order

+ 0 day

Step 2

Step 2

Step 2

Order ± 3 day

Order ± 3 day

Order

± 3 day

Step 3

Step 3

Step 3

Order ± 5 day

Order ± 5 day

Order

± 5 day

Step 4

Step 4

Step 4

Order ± 7 day

Order ± 7 day

Order

± 7 day

customers calls for a claim

Step 5

Step 5

Step 5

Order ± 8 day

Order ± 8 day

Order

± 8 day

Step 6

Step 6

Step 6

Order 9+ day

Order 9+ day

Order

9+ day

It should be one of this yellow list

It should be one of this yellow list

It should be one of this yellow list

customers calls for a claim

It should be one of this blue list

It should be one of this blue list

It should be one of this blue list

OUR SOLUTIONS

Big small adjustments

2. Setting up the "Pre-Shot"

1. Revamp the Profile management

3. Simplify access to order tracking

video of the profile management feature

2. Setting up the "Pre-Shot"

1. Revamp the Profile management

3. Simplify access to order tracking

video of the profile management feature

2. Setting up the "Pre-Shot"

1. Revamp the Profile management

3. Simplify access to order tracking

video of the pre-shot feature

USER TEST

Verifying the solutions

We quickly prototyped and conducted users tests, as the time allowed for this project was very short (2weeks).

Our panel was made of :

  • 6 marketplace users

  • From 22 to 63 y/o

We put them in `2 situations :

They just ordered new headphones, but they wrote the wrong address. So they need to change it quick

Then, they received a new phone, but they didn’t got a charge cable in the package. They had to find a solution.

  1. Setting up the "Pre-Shot"

User though that there were not enough possible claim proposed.

So we added an entry point to the FAQ in the pre-shot list.

2.1 Revamp the profile management

Users didn’t identified the horizontal scroll to navigate between cards of current and past orders.

We decided to design in a more rooted way in users habits. We listed orders one after the others, as categorized cards

“Current order” card was reduced with only the essential information provided first. If users need more details, the card is expanded with a dropdown.

2.2 Revamp the profile management

Users identified the FAQ and “Help & Assistance as pushed ads because of their colors.

We used softer hues, from existing colors of Back Market’s design system.We also removed the search bar from the Profile Dashboard for a simpler interface.

  1. Simplify access to order tracking

Users didn’t understand the order tracking icon.

We replaced it with an existing icon from Back Market's design system

  • Angèle, 22

  • Louise, 29

  • Charline, 31

  • Camille, 29

  • Laurence, 63

  • Erwan, 53

  • Angèle, 22

  • Louise, 29

  • Charline, 31

  • Camille, 29

  • Laurence, 63

  • Erwan, 53

  • Angèle, 22

  • Louise, 29

  • Charline, 31

  • Camille, 29

  • Laurence, 63

  • Erwan, 53

Conclusion

We could go further

This is the initial phase of our solution aiming to automate the detection and resolution of issues.

We focused our efforts on providing solutions for a few parcel-related issues at the beginning of the ordering process, due to the time constraints of the project.

However, our approach is scalable, capable of addressing the entirety of the order, even after its receipt, thanks to the management of claims

If you want you can watch the full video prototype of our solution :

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