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Joey couldn't sleep.
So he built the thing that could.

Repley was built by Joey van de Kerkhof, a Shopify operator whose inbox ate his nights. This is the story of the store, the night shift and the tool that now answers A to Z, and the four beliefs that still decide what gets built.

  • Founded byOne operator, out of his own inbox
  • Built inLimassol, hosted in Frankfurt
  • Answers nowA to Z, in 0.4 seconds

The story

Four chapters, one inbox.

The short version of why Repley exists, in the order it happened.

  1. The store.

    Joey ran his own store on Shopify. The product sold, the campaigns worked, and every campaign that worked made the inbox worse.

    Where is my order. Can I still change the address. When is it back in stock. The same handful of questions, over and over, each one from a customer who deserved a proper answer.

  2. The nights.

    Support did not fit in the working day, so it moved into the night. Answering from bed at 1 AM, phone in hand, because a paying customer should not have to wait until morning.

    Then the fix everyone recommends: a VA. Three weeks of training. A salary, every month, whether the inbox was busy or not. And on the night of the midnight sale, asleep, while "sorry for the inconvenience" went out on €500 orders.

  3. The realization.

    Reading back through the queue, the pattern was hard to miss. Every answer already existed. The order data had the tracking number. The policies had the return window. His own sent folder had the tone.

    Nobody needed a suggestion tool, and nobody needed another dashboard to check. The inbox needed the work itself done: read the email, look up the order, write the reply, send it.

  4. Repley.

    So he built it, together with TimeFuser. First on his own inbox, then on pilot stores.

    Repley reads every customer email, checks the order in Shopify and replies in your voice, cited from your own docs, in 0.4 seconds. A to Z, automatically. Legal questions, truly furious customers, high order value and chargeback risk escalate to a human. One flat fee, no AI surcharge, and nobody answering from bed at 1 AM.

Beliefs

Four beliefs, none of them negotiable.

They were true before the product existed. They decide what gets built and what gets cut.

  1. 01

    Speed is the product.

    A right answer that arrives tomorrow is a wrong answer. Repley drafts in 0.4 seconds because the customer is still on the page.

  2. 02

    Your voice, not a script.

    Every reply is cited from your own policies and written the way you write. If it doesn't sound like you, it doesn't go out.

  3. 03

    Honest pricing.

    One flat fee with conversations included and no surcharge on AI replies. The price on the pricing page is the price on the invoice.

  4. 04

    Trust is infrastructure.

    EU-hosted, read-only Shopify scopes, tokens encrypted at rest. Not a promise on a page, a property of the system.

Joey van de Kerkhof, founder of Repley

Founder made, for founders

I scaled my own DTC brands, and every time volume grew the answer was the same: hire someone. So the team kept growing. Another VA, then another, support cost climbed every month, while the answers never got faster or better.

Joey van de KerkhofFounder, Repley

The company

TimeFuser LTD

Registration HE480325

Where we are

Limassol, Cyprus

Built in Cyprus, hosted in the EU

Where your data is

Frankfurt

Hetzner, inside the EU

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hello@repley.io

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