Late deliveries
Spots shipments slipping past their promise, chases the carrier, and updates the customer with an honest new ETA — both sides handled at once, before the angry message arrives.
You find out a parcel is late
when the customer tells you.
Nobody watches 400 parcels
Every shipment has a promise date, and no one has time to check them daily. The late ones announce themselves — as complaints.
Two conversations, one delay
Ops chases the carrier while support calms the customer — in different tools, with different information, often saying different things.
Silence reads as indifference
A one-day delay with an honest heads-up keeps the customer. The same delay discovered by the customer costs the reorder.
The carrier feed showed the slip on Tuesday. The complaint arrived on Friday.
The delay is found by the system. Not by the customer.
- Promised Thursday · checkout promise on record
- Last scan Monday — hub outbound only
- Carrier SLA allows escalation from 24h silence
Flags the slip against the promise date — two days before it becomes visible.
Raises an escalation with the carrier, quoting the tracking number and SLA clause.
- New ETA: Saturday confirmed on escalation
- Two days late against the checkout promise
Tells the customer honestly: delayed, new ETA Saturday, tracked and watched.
Both sides updated from one case file — same facts, same minute.
- Delivered Saturday 11:20 AM, doorstep scan
- Customer informed at every change of state
Your order #6402 was delivered at 11:20 AM today. Sorry again for the two-day slip — it was on us to tell you first, and we did.
Promise, slip, chase, outcome — one thread.
- 2 cases slipped past even the revised ETA
- Draft goodwill gesture attached per your policy
Approve the goodwill credit or hold — the case file has the whole story.
Carrier performance logged by lane — evidence for your next rate talk.
Same carriers. No surprises.
| Moment | Before Clarwiz | On Clarwiz |
|---|---|---|
| Finding the delay | Customer complaint, day three. | Feed sweep, day one, before breakfast. |
| Chasing the carrier | Ops, manually, when told. | Automatic escalation with SLA quoted. |
| Telling the customer | After they ask, defensively. | Before they notice, honestly, with a date. |
| Ops and support | Two tools, two versions of the truth. | One case file, both sides in sync. |
| Carrier accountability | Anecdotes at the quarterly review. | Per-lane delay log, counted to the unit. |
What counts as 'late' — who defines the threshold?
Does it really message the customer before we know?
Can it offer compensation automatically?
How does it chase the carrier — email, portal, API?
What do we need to integrate before a demo?
See this run on your own data.
Thirty minutes, nothing connected.
We take this process, connect nothing, and show you the run end to end on your real conversations and orders. When you're ready, go live at the autonomy level you choose.