Assistants who work in Shopify

AssistBPO's Shopify admin support puts an employed store assistant inside your own admin. Building products and collections, processing orders and returns, keeping inventory accurate, publishing content changes and answering customers.

  • E-commerce platform
  • Your account, your data

You keep the store, the apps and the payouts. We supply the person, a trained backup and a team lead, in your hours.

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Shopify

E-commerce platform by Shopify Inc. Β· US, UK, CA, AU

Shopify is a product of Shopify Inc. The name and mark identify the software we work in; AssistBPO claims no partner, reseller or certification status unless held.

Β· Reviewed by Issabela Masters

Why do Shopify users need a virtual assistant?

Running a Shopify store is not one job. It is a product job, an operations job, a support job and a merchandising job, and on a small team those all belong to the same person. So the listing for the new colorway goes live with a placeholder description, the unfulfilled orders view collects three addresses that failed validation, the abandoned checkout flow has not been looked at since Black Friday and a customer is on day four of asking where their parcel is. None of it is hard. All of it is constant. An assistant takes the constant part: orders cleared every morning, listings built properly, inventory reconciled, collections merchandised and customers answered while the day is still theirs.

What can a virtual assistant do inside Shopify?

Products and variants
Creates and edits products with your title structure, options, variant SKUs, weights, images and metafields, so search, filters and apps all behave.
Collections and merchandising
Builds manual and automated collections, sets the sort order that actually sells, and pulls out-of-stock products forward or back as you prefer.
Orders and fulfillment
Works the unfulfilled and on-hold views every morning, fixes bad addresses, splits and holds orders, and pushes tracking back to the customer.
Returns and refunds
Processes returns and exchanges inside your policy, issues refunds and store credit as you authorize, and records the reason so the return report is useful.
Inventory and locations
Reconciles stock across locations, corrects the counts that drift after a manual fulfillment and flags products heading for a stockout before they get there.
Discounts and draft orders
Sets up discount codes and automatic discounts for a campaign, builds draft orders for wholesale or phone customers and checks each one before sending.
Theme content and pages
Updates homepage sections, banners, navigation, size guides and policy pages from your brief, always duplicating the theme before editing anything live.
Apps and reports
Keeps app settings and feeds current, checks the apps that fail quietly, and pulls weekly sales, conversion and product performance reports with a short note.

Integrations we handle

  • Shopify and Gorgias

    Order lookups, refunds and reships handled from the ticket, with the action taken in Shopify noted on the conversation.

  • Shopify and Klaviyo

    Segments and flows kept in step with product and customer data, with abandoned checkout and post-purchase flows checked before each campaign.

  • Shopify and Amazon Seller Central

    Listings, pricing and stock kept consistent across both channels so a sale in one place does not oversell the other.

  • Shopify and Xero

    Payouts, fees and refunds reconciled with your bookkeeper so the Shopify sales figure and the bank deposit finally agree.

  • Shopify and Slack

    Failed payments, high-value orders and stock alerts posted to your operations channel with the order link and what was done.

  • Shopify and Zapier

    Orders pushed to your warehouse sheet or third-party logistics provider, with zap failures checked before the daily dispatch cutoff.

Which Shopify admin tasks can you delegate?

  • Clear the unfulfilled and on-hold order views each morning
  • Fix failed addresses and contact customers about them
  • Upload new products with variants, images and metafields
  • Build and sort collections for a campaign
  • Process returns, exchanges and approved refunds
  • Reconcile inventory counts across locations
  • Set up discount codes and check them before launch
  • Create draft orders for wholesale and phone customers
  • Update homepage banners, navigation and policy pages
  • Check app feeds and failed syncs daily
  • Answer order and product questions from customers
  • Send the weekly sales and product performance report

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Frequently asked questions

What does a Shopify virtual assistant do day to day?

Orders first, always: unfulfilled, on hold, payment pending and anything with a bad address, cleared before anything else starts. Then customer messages about delivery, sizing and returns. Mid-morning is catalog work, new products built to your template, images checked, collections sorted, stock reconciled. Afternoons take the campaign and content jobs: discount codes, banners, landing sections, a flow that needs updating. Before signing off they check app syncs and the dispatch cutoff. The end-of-day report lists orders handled, products published and anything waiting on you.

Do you have Shopify certified assistants?

Every e-commerce assistant is trained on Shopify before they join a client store: products and variants, collections, orders and fulfillment, returns, inventory across locations, discounts, draft orders, theme content editing and the analytics reports. That training is internal to AssistBPO. We do not claim Shopify vendor certification for our staff, and AssistBPO is not a Shopify Partner, reseller or affiliate. The product name on this page identifies the software you use. At match stage we will show you the kind of stores and catalog sizes the proposed assistant has worked on.

How much does a Shopify virtual assistant cost?

Plans depend on hours, desks and coverage. Get a staffing plan within 1 business day. A dedicated store assistant is priced per person for a monthly block of hours in your time zone, not per order or per listing, so a launch week or a sale weekend does not change the bill. Your Shopify plan, apps and transaction fees stay on your own account and are billed by those vendors directly. Stores with real seasonality often add a second assistant for peak rather than rebuilding the plan each year.

Will the assistant edit our live theme?

Only through the process you approve. Content changes inside theme sections and the page editor are routine and happen daily. Anything touching the theme code is done on a duplicated theme, previewed with a link for you to check, and published only after you say so. Apps that inject code are recorded with what they do and when they were added. This keeps a small banner change from becoming an afternoon of everyone guessing why the cart drawer broke at 4pm on a Friday.

Can the assistant issue refunds and handle chargebacks?

They issue refunds and store credit inside the limits you set, which for most stores means the value of a normal order without asking. Above that, or where the customer is disputing something unusual, it comes to you with the order history summarized. For chargebacks they assemble the evidence, order details, tracking, delivery confirmation and the customer conversation, and submit within the deadline. Fraud-flagged and high-value orders are held for your review rather than fulfilled on the assistant's judgment.

How do we give the assistant access safely?

Create a staff account in your own Shopify admin with the permissions the job needs: orders, products, customers and content, with payouts, bank details, apps and plan settings excluded unless you choose otherwise. They sign in from a managed company device with two-factor authentication and no shared logins. Shopify logs actions against their staff account, so a weekly review is quick. Remove the staff account in seconds whenever the engagement changes, and we ask for that ourselves when it ends.

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