The order, right where the email is.
How a made-to-order carbon fiber brand stopped tab-hunting through Shopify and gave its support team their afternoons back - with one browser extension, shipped in one week.
The problem
Jieren's team at Zen Carbon Fiber sells made-to-order carbon fiber steering wheels, and every support email arrived with homework attached: open Shopify, search the customer, find the order, check fulfillment, copy the tracking number, switch back, paste, reply.
Five tabs per ticket - multiplied by every "where's my order?" of the day. Support had quietly become the team's biggest time sink.
Tracking for order #1082?
Hey - any update on my steering wheel? Hoping it lands before my trackday next Friday.
#1082
FulfilledLine items
What we built
A Chrome extension that lives next to the inbox. When an email is opened, it reads the sender's details and matches them to the Shopify order and customer - no searching, no tabs:
- Order, items, and fulfillment status at a glance
- One-click copy for tracking links
- Internal notes on the customer, kept with the order
Tracking
In transit · UPS
1Z999AA10123456784
Est. delivery Jul 18
The result
Replies that took minutes of tab-hunting now take seconds. New hires skip the order-lookup dance entirely, and Jieren got his support afternoons back.
“Now the order is just there, right next to the email.” Jieren · Founder, Zen Carbon Fiber

