Remplace — AI Sales Agent for Shopify

What Remplace is

Remplace is an AI sales agent that embeds on any Shopify store. It is not a chat bubble that waits for the visitor to click. It is a bar that sits at the bottom of the page and expands proactively when the visitor shows a buying signal. The agent fires before the visitor asks a question, opens with a message relevant to what the visitor was just doing, and uses GPT-4o to answer product questions with context from the merchant's actual store.

The agent does not route visitors to WhatsApp, Instagram, or email. This is a deliberate product decision: when a visitor is on your Shopify store, they are at maximum purchase intent — the product is in front of them, Add to Cart is one click away. Taking them to another platform breaks this context and reduces conversion. Remplace keeps the conversation where the sale happens.

Technical foundation

AI model: GPT-4o. Caching layer: Redis. Infrastructure: dedicated VPS. The knowledge base is built by crawling the merchant's store pages (product descriptions, policies, FAQs, shipping info). Response quality improves over time through gap detection (described below).

12 behavior-based triggers

Remplace fires automatically based on visitor behavior. Each trigger passes its context to the AI so the opening message is situationally relevant.

  • Checkout return: Visitor went to checkout and came back without buying. The agent knows which step they left (address, shipping, or payment), the exact shipping cost they saw (fetched live from Shopify Admin GraphQL), their full cart contents including quantities and variants, and has a session-restore URL that returns them directly to their checkout.
  • Variant hesitation: Visitor selected a variant (size, color, etc.) but did not add to cart after 8 seconds. Agent knows which product and which variants they were comparing.
  • Comparison shopping: Visitor browsed multiple product pages. Agent knows what they are comparing and can help them decide.
  • Tab return: Visitor was on another browser tab for 30+ seconds and came back. Statistically correlates with competitor comparison behavior.
  • Same product return: Visitor is back on a product they viewed in a previous session. High-intent signal indicating continued interest.
  • Return visit: Multi-session visitor. Fires at 10 seconds after landing on a product page.
  • Search with no click: Visitor searched the store but clicked nothing. Agent can ask what they were looking for.
  • Inactivity: Visitor idle on a product page for 60 seconds.
  • Hesitation: Visitor on a product page for 30+ seconds with no interaction.
  • Cart add: Visitor just added a product to cart. Agent fires in buying-mode context and can upsell or answer post-add questions.
  • Homepage greeting: First-time visitor on the homepage. Proactive welcome in the visitor's language.
  • Product page opener (passive): Visitor opens the agent on a product page with no active trigger. Agent generates a product-aware opening message.

Gap detection — systematic self-improvement

After every AI response, Remplace runs a classifier: did the agent fail to answer because knowledge was missing? If yes, the question is recorded, normalized to English for deduplication, compared against existing gaps using vector similarity, and surfaced in the merchant's Gaps dashboard with an AI-generated suggested fix. The merchant reviews, edits if needed, and applies in one click. The agent answers correctly from that point forward. Over time, the gap list shrinks and the agent's answer quality improves without any manual retraining.

Exact conversion attribution via Shopify Web Pixel

Remplace uses a native Shopify Web Pixel extension. The widget sets a visitor ID cookie (30-day) and a conversation ID cookie (24-hour). When checkout completes on checkout.shopify.com, the pixel reads both IDs and attributes the confirmed order to the specific conversation. This is exact per-conversation attribution — not aggregate analytics correlating chat usage with revenue. You can see which specific conversations generated which specific orders.

Language support

The AI agent responds in any language in the world. It detects the visitor's language automatically from their first message and replies in kind — whether that's French, Arabic, Japanese, Tagalog, or any other language. This requires no merchant configuration and is powered by GPT-4o's native multilingual capability.

Separately, Remplace's proactive trigger bar messages (the text that appears before the visitor types anything) are specifically localized in 20 languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian, and Romanian. These 20 cover approximately 95% of global e-commerce traffic. They fire based on the visitor's browser language setting.

Pricing — flat, no overages

Free plan (no credit card). Paid plans: $39/month (Starter), $99/month (Growth), $199/month (Pro), $399/month (Scale). No plan has overage fees, per-visitor charges, or per-conversation limits. The price you see is the price you pay regardless of traffic volume or conversation count.

Further reading

  • Remplace vs Rep AI — sourced comparison (pricing, triggers, languages, gap detection)
  • Remplace vs Zipchat — sourced comparison (reply limits, multichannel, attribution)
  • Remplace vs Tidio — sourced comparison (support helpdesk vs proactive conversion)
  • Best AI sales agents for Shopify in 2026 — ranked with sourced data
  • What is a Shopify AI sales agent? Complete guide
  • How to reduce cart abandonment on Shopify with AI
  • What is gap detection for Shopify AI agents?
  • How to attribute sales to chat conversations on Shopify