Case study

How PHH Group handles 56,000 marketplace chats a month

PHH Group is the Baltic and Finnish marketplace group — pigu.lt, 220.lv, kaup24.ee and hobbyhall.fi — selling everything from electronics and home to garden, toys and books, both its own stock and third-party sellers'.

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4 storefronts: LT · LV · EE · FI

Channels

Web + native apps

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Agnė Butkutė

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Agnė Butkutė

Head of Contact Center, PHH Group

Before AskSpot

A catalog too big to browse, in more languages than storefronts

PHH Group runs the Baltic and Finnish marketplaces — pigu.lt, 220.lv, kaup24.ee and hobbyhall.fi — selling electronics, home, garden, toys, fashion and books, from its own warehouse and from third-party sellers. A shopper who arrives wanting a hair dryer with a large diffuser, under €45, for the curly-girl method is not going to find it by browsing.

Behind that sits the long tail only a marketplace generates: orders split across sellers into separate parcels, loyalty credit that works on some items and not others, instalment flows, parcel lockers. It arrives in Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian and Finnish — and for nearly one shopper in five, in Russian, on a storefront whose own language is something else. Nearly half comes through the mobile apps, and 43% lands outside office hours.

Marketplaces to cover

4

Chats a month

56,000

Arriving in the app

43%

Opening in Russian

19%

Rollout

How they rolled it out

One module, three surfaces: discovery across the four catalogs first, then the same agent inside the native apps, then live order data so the conversation survives past the sale.

AI Sales Agent

Step 01

Four catalogs, four languages

Discovery is 30% of the job

The agent went live on all four storefronts, each with its own name and language. It narrows a vague request into a shortlist — and when a shopper writes in Russian on the Estonian or Latvian store, it answers in Russian without being asked.

What shoppers ask

  • Recommend wireless headphones, mid range
  • Мне нужен фен с диффузором до 45 евро
  • Listing says 100 cm, description says 80 cm

AI Sales Agent

Step 02

Inside the mobile apps

43% of all conversations

The same agent was embedded in the group’s native apps, not just the websites. That is now where nearly half of all conversations happen — same catalog, same order data, same answers, on the surface most marketplace shoppers actually use.

What shoppers ask

  • Where is my parcel?
  • I never got the locker code
  • Is this back in stock yet?

AI Sales Agent

Step 03

Orders, sellers & loyalty

The marketplace long tail

Live order data closed the loop on the questions only a marketplace generates: an order split across two sellers into two parcels, loyalty credit that applies to some items and not others, an instalment flow that pre-fills the wrong account. Damage claims still go to a person — with the whole thread attached.

What shoppers ask

  • Why can’t I spend my store credit?
  • Instalments picked the wrong account
  • My parcel arrived damaged

Measured in AskSpot

What the sales agent does in a month

Resolution counts only conversations the agent closed itself — anything that offered live chat, an email form or a phone number is counted as handed to a human, not resolved.

56,000

conversations handled a month

76%

of chats resolved with no human

16%

of chats fill a basket

4

markets, in the shopper's language

From real conversations

What PHH Group shoppers actually ask

A third of every conversation is discovery — help me find the right thing in a catalog too big to browse. The rest is the long post-sale tail that third-party sellers, split parcels, loyalty credit and instalments generate.

Product questions & recommendations30%
Returns & order changes15%
Order status & tracking13%
Delivery, delays & problems13%
Payments, invoices & leasing10%
Promotions & campaigns6%
Stock & availability4%
Warranty & service3%

Based on 56,042 tagged conversations over 30 days · about 8 messages each · 43% arriving outside business hours · 19% opening in Russian.

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