Retail & E-Commerce

Order Status & Delivery Updates

Proactively notify customers about order status changes, delivery windows, and exceptions — reducing WISMO calls to your support team.

Why this matters

Drive revenue and retention with voice automation for order updates, cart recovery, loyalty enrollment, and post-purchase engagement. This example shows you how to automate order status & delivery updates calls end-to-end with Guava's SDK — no telephony plumbing, no prompt engineering, just Python.

How to set persona & task
Working with Fields and Say items
Handling callbacks
Running the agent
Step 01

Installation

Install from Guava's private PyPI index. A public package is coming soon — the install command will simplify to pip install guava.

terminal
# Step 1: Install Guava
pip install gridspace-guava --extra-index-url https://guava-pypi.gridspace.com

# Public PyPI package coming soon — the install command will simplify to:
# pip install guava

# Step 2: Set your credentials
export GUAVA_API_KEY="..."
export GUAVA_AGENT_NUMBER="..."
Step 02

How it's built

Every Guava agent is a Python class. Walk through the key sections below, then grab the complete file at the end.

01

Imports

Import the Guava SDK and any helpers you need. guava.CallController is the base class for every voice agent.

example.py
# Install: pip install gridspace-guava --extra-index-url https://guava-pypi.gridspace.com
import guava
import os
02

Agent setup

set_persona() defines how the agent presents itself. set_task() gives it its mission in plain English. The checklist drives the conversation — Guava works through it top-to-bottom, collecting Field values and speaking Say items as it goes.

example.py
class OrderStatusBot(guava.CallController):
    def __init__(self, customer_name: str, order_id: str, status: str, eta: str, carrier: str):
        super().__init__()
        self.set_persona(
            organization_name="Pinnacle Commerce",
            agent_name="Robin",
        )
        self.set_task(
            objective=f"Update {customer_name} on order {order_id} status: {status}",
            checklist=[
                f"Greet {customer_name} with a proactive update on their order.",
                guava.Say(f"Order {order_id} is currently {status}. Estimated delivery: {eta} via {carrier}."),
                guava.Field(
                    key="issue_type",
                    field_type="choice",
                    description="Does the customer want to report a problem?",
                    choices=["no issue", "wrong address", "missing item", "damaged item", "want to cancel"],
                ),
                guava.Field(
                    key="signature_required_ok",
                    field_type="bool",
                    description="Is the customer available to sign for delivery during the delivery window?",
                    required=False,
                ),
                guava.Field(
                    key="wants_text_updates",
                    field_type="bool",
                    description="Would they prefer text updates instead of calls?",
                ),
                "Provide tracking URL and support number for any issues.",
            ],
            on_complete=lambda fields: print(f"Order update call logged: {order_id} — {fields}"),
        )

guava.dial(
    controller=OrderStatusBot,
    controller_args={"customer_name": "Priya Shah", "order_id": "ORD-992847",
                     "status": "out for delivery", "eta": "today between 2-6pm", "carrier": "UPS"},
    to=os.environ["CUSTOMER_PHONE"],
    agent_number=os.environ["GUAVA_AGENT_NUMBER"],
    api_key=os.environ["GUAVA_API_KEY"],
)

Platform performance

<1s

Response time

99.99%

Uptime SLA

13+

Industries served

Step 03

Full example

The complete file — copy it, save it as example.py, and run it.

example.py
# Install: pip install gridspace-guava --extra-index-url https://guava-pypi.gridspace.com
import guava
import os

class OrderStatusBot(guava.CallController):
    def __init__(self, customer_name: str, order_id: str, status: str, eta: str, carrier: str):
        super().__init__()
        self.set_persona(
            organization_name="Pinnacle Commerce",
            agent_name="Robin",
        )
        self.set_task(
            objective=f"Update {customer_name} on order {order_id} status: {status}",
            checklist=[
                f"Greet {customer_name} with a proactive update on their order.",
                guava.Say(f"Order {order_id} is currently {status}. Estimated delivery: {eta} via {carrier}."),
                guava.Field(
                    key="issue_type",
                    field_type="choice",
                    description="Does the customer want to report a problem?",
                    choices=["no issue", "wrong address", "missing item", "damaged item", "want to cancel"],
                ),
                guava.Field(
                    key="signature_required_ok",
                    field_type="bool",
                    description="Is the customer available to sign for delivery during the delivery window?",
                    required=False,
                ),
                guava.Field(
                    key="wants_text_updates",
                    field_type="bool",
                    description="Would they prefer text updates instead of calls?",
                ),
                "Provide tracking URL and support number for any issues.",
            ],
            on_complete=lambda fields: print(f"Order update call logged: {order_id} — {fields}"),
        )

guava.dial(
    controller=OrderStatusBot,
    controller_args={"customer_name": "Priya Shah", "order_id": "ORD-992847",
                     "status": "out for delivery", "eta": "today between 2-6pm", "carrier": "UPS"},
    to=os.environ["CUSTOMER_PHONE"],
    agent_number=os.environ["GUAVA_AGENT_NUMBER"],
    api_key=os.environ["GUAVA_API_KEY"],
)
Step 04

Run it

Start the agent. It will connect to Guava's infrastructure and begin accepting calls on your assigned number.

terminal
python example.py
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