Watch my shop and tell me when sales go quiet
This is the till count. A quiet week is easy to miss while you are busy making the work - and by the time you notice, it is three quiet weeks. This job hands the noticing to Bernard.
What the job covers
- Your rhythm, not a generic one. The brief compares each week with your own history, so seasonal patterns and slow-but-normal stretches do not cry wolf.
- Money that nearly arrived. Declined cards and failed member payments are flagged while a friendly follow-up can still save the sale.
- Refunds and oddities. A refund, a burst of orders on one product, a price that stopped converting - anything that breaks the pattern makes the note.
Setting it up
Paste the brief above into a chat with Bernard to test it once - you get this week's version of the note straight back. When you like the shape of it, make it a standing job the way Put an AI agent to work on my business describes, and set the day that suits your week.
If the note flags a dip, ask the obvious follow-up: "why?" Bernard reads the traffic behind the shop as well as the till, so "fewer visitors from Instagram since you stopped posting" is the kind of answer to expect - see Check my website automatically every week for the wider health check that pairs well with this one.
The prompt
“Watch my shop. Each [Monday], compare the week's sales with my usual rhythm and tell me about anything unusual: a quiet streak, a failed payment, a refund, or one product suddenly selling. If it was a normal week, say so in one line.”
Press Copy, then paste it into your AI and fill in the [bracketed] parts. First time? Connect your AI to bernard first - a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI.
Questions people ask
- How do I get alerted when my online shop stops selling?
- Give Bernard the standing brief on this page. He knows your usual rhythm from your own sales history, so "quiet" means quiet for you - a slow fortnight for a painter selling originals is not the same as one for a print shop.
- Will it tell me about failed payments?
- Yes - a declined card or a member payment that failed shows up in the note, because those are sales you can often rescue with a friendly nudge while the buyer still wants the thing.
- Can it fix problems in the shop, or only report them?
- It reports, and where a fix lives on your site - a wrong price, a product page issue - it can prepare the change as a draft. Nothing goes live without your approval on a preview page.
- I run more than one shop. Does it watch them all?
- Yes. The note leads with the account total, then each site on its own line, so a dip in one shop is not hidden by a good week in another.