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Case Study · E-commerce Operations

How Sarah at Bloom & Petal reduced her 4-hour morning routine to a 10-minute coffee check

Sarah Chen built Bloom & Petal into a $1.2M/year dried flower business selling on Shopify, Etsy, and Amazon. But she was spending more time processing orders than designing arrangements. Every morning started at 6:30am with spreadsheets instead of sketches.

4h→10mindaily ops time87% reduction
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Operations Agent — Bloom & Petal Overnight Run
Completed
Pulled 47 new orders from Shopify, Etsy, Amazon2:14 AM
Validated all shipping addresses against USPS records2:15 AM
Generated 47 shipping labels — USPS Priority, First-Class2:18 AM
Sent tracking confirmations to all 47 customers2:22 AM
Answered 23 customer emails (tracking inquiries, returns)2:35 AM
Flagged 2 orders for Sarah's review (unusual amount)2:36 AM

Sarah's morning — before Percy

6:30Check overnight orders across three channels
6:45Cross-reference inventory spreadsheet
7:00Print shipping labels one by one
7:30Compare carrier rates for heavy items
7:45Fix address error on order #4,821
8:30Reply to 23 customer emails
9:30Sync inventory across all channels
10:15Cancel an oversell, email apology
10:45Finally sit down to design

Sarah's morning — with Percy

8:00Open Percy's overnight summary with coffee
8:05Approve 2 flagged items
8:10Start designing the spring collection

47 orders processed. 23 emails answered. Inventory synced across 3 channels. All before Sarah finished her coffee.

Sarah's story

From drowning in logistics to designing full-time

"I started Bloom & Petal because I loved creating dried flower arrangements," Sarah says. "But by year two, I was spending more time in ShipStation than in my studio. I'd wake up at 6:30 every morning and not touch a flower until almost 11. It was breaking me."

The shift started with shipping labels. Percy pulled every order from Shopify, Etsy, and Amazon, validated addresses against USPS, selected the cheapest carrier for each package weight, and generated labels in batch. What took Sarah 90 minutes happened at 2am while she slept.

Then came the emails. 60% were tracking inquiries — "Where's my order?" Percy matched each one to a shipment, pulled the latest scan, and responded in Sarah's warm, personal tone. The remaining emails that needed a human landed in a short queue she cleared in 5 minutes.

Inventory was the last piece. Every sale on any channel triggered an immediate sync. The oversells stopped. The panicked spreadsheet morning ritual stopped. "I went from spending 4 hours on operations to a 10-minute coffee check," Sarah says. "The rest of my day belongs to my product again."

Results

10 min

daily ops time (was 4.2h)

99.7%

shipping accuracy

$0

monthly error costs (was $1,800)

Sound like your morning?

If you're spending hours on operations instead of your actual work, Percy can fix that. Sarah did it in one afternoon.

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