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AI chat for pet shops: answer stock questions online

Tidio's Lyro AI answers website questions about stock, opening hours and delivery from your own content, and passes the rest to you. From about $37£28€33A$54C$53 a month.

At a glance

  • What it costs$37–45£28–34€33–40A$54–65C$53–64 a month

  • Worth, in extra profit or time saved in the worked example$77£58€69A$111C$109 a month

  • Pays for itselfWithin the month

  • Connecting two tools or some setup timeSome setup needed

Figures come from the worked example below, using its stated assumptions. Tool prices checked . How we check prices

The problem

Calls asking whether a food is in stock or if you're open on Sunday interrupt the till and the queue. If a pet shop gets 25 such calls a week at 4 minutes each, that's 100 minutes a week, about 7.2 hours a month.

What the AI does

Tidio is a website chat tool. Its Lyro AI agent answers from the support content and guidance you give it, and forwards questions it can't answer to a person. Give it a page of answers: opening hours, delivery area and charges, the brands and bag sizes you stock, how to order and how click and collect works. Lyro answers website visitors at any hour and forwards anything else to you. Set it to pass questions about a pet's health or diet to a member of staff.

A worked example

A pet shop in Worcester gets about 25 calls a week asking about stock, opening hours and delivery, mostly while serving.

Before

25 calls a week x 4 minutes: 100 minutes a week, about 7.2 hours a month

After

If the chat handles 10 of those a week (about 43 a month): about 2.9 hours a month saved

What it's worth

About $77£58€69A$111C$109 a month saved, at an assumed $27£20€24A$38C$38 an hour for 2.9 hours (10 calls a week x 4 minutes, times 4.3). Lyro starts at €39 (about $45£34€40A$65C$64) a month, or €32.50 (about $37£28€33A$54C$53) billed yearly, for 50 AI conversations a month, so the net is about $32£24€29A$46C$45 to $40£30€36A$58C$56.

How to set it up

  1. Write a page of plain answers to the questions you hear most: hours, delivery, brands and sizes stocked, ordering, collection.
  2. Sign up for Tidio, add the chat to your website and give Lyro that content.
  3. Set it to forward health, diet and complaint questions to you.
  4. Ask it your 20 most common questions and fix any wrong answer in your content.
  5. Each week, read the forwarded questions and add answers for the common ones.

What goes wrong

  • Lyro answers from what you give it; out-of-date stock or prices mean wrong answers, so it can't tell customers live stock levels.
  • 50 AI conversations a month go quickly; check usage before a busy month.
  • Questions about a pet's health or special diet need a person, not the chat.
  • Prices were shown in euros on the day checked, so the price in pounds may differ.

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Last updated October 17, 2026.