E-commerce · 1-5 people · 10,000 tickets/mo · very fast AHT · aggressive
E-commerce support team: 3 agents for 10,000 tickets/month
Order status, returns, shipping and payment questions dominate e-commerce queues, and most of them are answerable without a human.
Verdict: Workable, with caveats
- 18.9-month payback. Reasonable for a support org, but it is not a quick win.
- Headcount spans 5-9 agents across your industry's handle-time range. Measure your real AHT for two weeks before you budget - the band is usually wider than anyone expects.
- Agents needed
- 3
- range 5–9
- Monthly labour cost
- $16,253
- $27,088 – $48,759
- Heads removable via automation
- 1
- 2 agents remain
- Net monthly effect
- $675
- platform cost $4,743/mo
- Payback
- 18.887024674816562 months
- at this volume
- Year-one cash effect
- -$16,157
- including setup and severance
This is one example. Get yours calculated.
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Put your own numbers in
These figures come from one assumed volume. Change the ticket count, AHT or cost per hour and the answer moves.
Related scenarios
The answer changes as volume, handle time and coverage move. These are the closest combinations worth comparing against.
Model v1. Figures are estimates from published benchmarks, not a quote.