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Handmade & Craft Studios

Custom-order inquiries, production schedules and options, shipping updates, CS, and reviews stay scattered across channels, and Velros AI gathers them so a custom job's details don't get lost in the back-and-forth.

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Custom-order sorting Auto finish-date Refunds after approval

Handmade & Craft Studios

  • Custom-order sorting
  • Auto finish-date
  • Refunds after approval

The channels stay. Only the work a person confirms is separated out.

Custom-order sorting · Auto finish-date · Refunds after approval

What a person confirms runs on a single thread.

Rather than adding another screen, we sort the work arriving on the channels you use and separate out only the decisions a person should see.

The same channels

You add nothing new. Velros AI runs over the Etsy, Instagram DM, email, and website form you already use, building the screens, approval queue, and reports you need and refining them as you operate.

Here's the inquiry. Here's how it gets handled.

The requests that arrive at Handmade & Craft Studios every day, kept on one screen along with what to confirm and what to improve next.

The order a person kept by hand, moved over as it was.

  1. Sort Inquiries scattered across email, Instagram DMs, and your Shopify inbox get sorted into custom-order, shipping timeline, and exchange/refund.
  2. Check It cross-checks options (engraving, sizing) against your current production queue to compute a real finish-and-ship date.
  3. Draft It drafts a reply that discloses the made-to-order exception to returns, plus an internal production checklist.
  4. Approve Anything tied to money or a promise, like refunds, custom pricing, and locking a date, goes to an approval card for your sign-off.

What you can see

It keeps the original messages, order options, staff edits, and approval-hold reasons that come in from Etsy, Instagram DM, email, and your website form, so you have grounds for next week's improvements.

What stops

Refunds, custom pricing and schedule changes, compensation, and bulk sends run only after you or the responsible staffer reviews them.

Someone who knows the industry sets the rules with you.

A Velros operations designer and a working practitioner turn your standards for custom orders, production timing and options, shipping, and CS into real operating procedures.

The Velros operations design team

Industries rule design and weekly improvement

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It keeps improving

Staff edits and the reasons work was held get gathered into next week's operating rule.

A person's time

Less repeat checking, and more of the day on the decisions and the growth that matter.

In depth

While you answer the options question, the workbench sits idle

Selling handmade, made-to-order pieces on Etsy or your own Shopify store means a day filled with questions. Messages asking about size, color, and engraving text, and asking when an order will arrive, come in scattered across email, Instagram DM, and WhatsApp. Between confirming options and setting production timelines, the actual making keeps getting pushed back. The goal here is to absorb the repetitive replies and leave only what the maker has to decide.

From first inquiry to done

  1. Every order and question lands in one place

    Orders and questions from email, Instagram DM, and WhatsApp are pulled into one list, showing the options (size, color, engraving), requested delivery date, and shipping address so missing details are obvious at a glance.

  2. Option confirmations and a timeline are drafted ahead

    A draft summarizing the chosen options, production time, and estimated ship and delivery dates is prepared for each order. The maker only checks the wording and the dates before it goes out.

  3. Only decisions go to a person

    Custom pricing, timeline changes, and refunds come up as an approval card. Routine order confirmations, shipping updates, and reminders are handled automatically.

What a person confirms

Custom pricing and add-on costs
Extra charges for engraving, a size change, or rush production are money decisions. The message may be drafted, but the actual charge goes out only after the maker confirms it.
Production and delivery timeline
When something can be made and shipped depends on the current order backlog and the materials on hand, and only the maker knows that. Nothing is promised automatically; only the confirmed timeline is shared with the customer.
Refunds and cancellations
Refunding or canceling an order already in production is a human call. Made-to-order items may be non-returnable, so whether and how a refund happens always goes through an approval card.

Deadlines and duties you can't miss

Shipment timing and delay notice
You must ship within the time promised, or within 30 days if you stated none, and notify the customer and offer a refund if you can't (16 CFR §435.2). Confirm each order's promised date is realistic before you commit to it.
Clear, upfront return terms
If a made-to-order item is non-returnable, that has to be disclosed clearly before purchase, not after; a hidden or misleading policy is a deceptive practice under §5. Keep which items are final sale on the record.
Customer data for shipping
Names, addresses, and contact details are collected only to fulfill the order, kept secure, and not held longer than needed. Keep a clear standard for what you collect and how long you keep it.

FTC Mail, Internet, or Telephone Order Merchandise Rule, 16 CFR Part 435, and the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. §45

Common questions

Does it confirm options or the production timeline for me?
No. It only drafts the repetitive option and order replies. Custom pricing, timelines, and refunds stay with the maker, and only that goes to the customer.
Messages come by email, Instagram, and WhatsApp separately. Can it see them all?
Yes. Orders and questions from every channel are pulled into one place, lined up in one list with the options, delivery date, and address, nothing dropped.
Does it auto-process refunds on non-returnable custom orders?
No. Refunds and cancellations all require a person to confirm on an approval card. And when an item is non-returnable, that's disclosed before purchase, not sprung afterward.

We'll find what to cut first in Handmade & Craft Studios, together.

Where the inquiries land, the order your staff check them in, and the rules a person applies last, laid out as one day of work.

Talk about our industry

What comes in

Messaging, phone, search and email, in one place

What gets checked

What your staff decide, and what a person decides

What improves

Fewer repeat inquiries and fewer dropped follow-ups, every week