Customer stories
bareMinerals

Meet bareMineral’s Newest Top Seller: An AI Shopping Assistant That Finds the Perfect Shade Every Time

About

The beauty brand struggled with costly returns from shade-matching confusion, with 55% of tickets being product questions. With Shopping Assistant providing virtual consultations, they achieved 8.8x ROI, 5%+ conversion rate uplift, and zero returns on AI-influenced purchases.

Industry
Cosmetics
Previous helpdesk
Company size
Product in use
Automate
,
Shopping Assistant
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Main integrations
0
returns from AI-influenced sales thanks to smarter recommendations
5.5%
uplift in average order value
8.83x
return on investment

Challenge: Beauty customers often struggle to find the right foundation or concealer shade online, especially when products are reformulated or discontinued, causing hesitation, abandoned carts, and costly returns. bareMinerals’ CX team needed a scalable solution to handle the high volume of incoming product-related and shade-matching questions, many of which came in after business hours. 

Solution: bareMinerals launched Shopping Assistant to deliver instant, expert product recommendations 24/7, driving more conversions and reducing return rates. Integrated with their Shopify product catalog and trained on shade matching nuances, Shopping Assistant guides customers through product discovery, increases basket size with natural upsells, and eliminates guesswork, without adding headcount.

The challenge

A legacy support platform that didn’t scale, drove up operational costs, and lacked essential metrics

The solution

Scaling CX without scaling headcount thanks to Gorgias and AI-driven support

Onboarding an ecommerce-focused platform that consolidates CX

The result

Scaling CX without scaling headcount thanks to Gorgias and AI-driven support

Onboarding an ecommerce-focused platform that consolidates CX

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