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Microsoft Copilot alternative for your store: Andavor’s proprietary AI, trained for sales

Andavor’s proprietary AI, trained for sales, serves your store’s customers on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and your website chat. It understands your customers, uses your company’s knowledge and guides each conversation based on what the person needs, from a simple question to a buying decision. In the Andavor app, which comes with the subscription, you follow the conversations and teach and adjust the AI. Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant for work and life, in Microsoft 365 apps and on the web.

Try Andavor’s AI in your store

Personal comes with 14 days free: the card goes in at sign-up, and nothing is charged during the trial. There’s no setup fee and no long-term contract, and you can cancel in the dashboard at any time. Start the 14-day trial.

What Andavor’s AI does

Every conversation takes a different path: some customers want to buy, others want to understand, compare or solve a problem. Andavor’s AI is its own and trained for sales: it considers the context of each interaction, from a simple question to a buying decision, and follows the rules your store sets. In the conversation with your customer, it:

  • Understands what the customer wrote and asks when information is missing.
  • Follows the conversation: the chosen product, the ZIP code and the payment method stay organized, and the customer doesn’t have to repeat what they already said.
  • Checks price and stock in your catalog before answering: no figure is written off the top of its head.
  • On WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, builds the order with the items, shipping and total; once your carrier is integrated, it quotes real shipping by ZIP code.
  • It builds the order and sends your store’s checkout link. Once your payment provider is integrated, it creates the charge in your own account, and the money goes straight to you. A payment below the total doesn’t complete the order.
  • In the website chat, it answers with your real catalog and guides the customer to finish the purchase at your store’s checkout.
  • Answers during the hours you choose, which can be all day, including nights and weekends.

You don’t code or draw flows: you connect your channels and catalog, tell it how your store sells and approve what the AI learned. AI usage is included in the plan, up to the monthly limit.

In the Andavor app, which comes with the subscription, you follow and adjust everything, in your computer’s or phone’s browser:

  • Follow conversations and orders, and see what the AI checked for each answer: price, shipping, order status.
  • Teach the AI with your store’s website, documents and images. Only what you check goes into customer service.
  • Take over any conversation on WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook whenever you want: the AI stays quiet in it until you hand it back.
  • In an open conversation in the dashboard, you can ask your attendant where an answer came from. When you tell it what’s right, it proposes the fix where that information lives, and nothing changes until you apply it.
  • Choose which channels it answers on, at what hours, and who it never answers.

At a niche store that uses Andavor, 194 of the 431 orders paid in September 2026 (45.0%) were closed with the AI, and 82 of them were paid outside business hours. The numbers, and how they were measured, are in the case study.

Andavor and Microsoft Copilot side by side

Criterion by criterion: Andavor and Microsoft Copilot
CriterionAndavorMicrosoft Copilot
The AI that answersAndavor’s own AI, trained for sales, on infrastructure operated by Andavor.The AI models Microsoft brings together in an assistant for work and life.
ChannelsWhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and the website chat, on your store’s number and accounts, with every conversation in one dashboard.The website, apps for Windows, Mac and mobile, and Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams; in Copilot Studio, websites and social channels.
Price and stockChecks price and stock in your catalog before answering. In a WooCommerce store, products come from the website; on other platforms, you add them in the app’s Catalog.In Copilot Studio, the company’s agent connects to data and systems through 1,500+ connectors.
Order and paymentIt builds the order with the items and the total and sends your store’s checkout link; once your tools are integrated, it quotes shipping by ZIP code and creates the charge in your own account, on channels where the customer is identified.In Copilot Studio, the company builds its own agent, which takes actions through connectors.
Do you need flows or code?No. You connect your channels and catalog, tell it how your store sells and turn the attendant on.Not to use Copilot; in Copilot Studio, agents with no code, with an Azure subscription.
Your store’s WhatsAppOn your store’s number, through Meta’s official WhatsApp or by QR code, on every plan.In Copilot Studio, through Azure: agents connected before October 23, 2026 keep working, and after that date there are no new connections through that experience.
Starting price$20.00/month on Personal, with WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and the website chat; the plan includes a monthly AI usage limit.Free with a Microsoft account, with usage limits; Microsoft 365 Personal costs $9.99 a month.
Getting started and free trialCreate your account, connect a channel and turn the attendant on. Personal comes with 14 days free, with no setup fee and no long-term contract.With a Microsoft account; the plans page for individuals offers one free month of Microsoft 365 Premium. Copilot Studio is sold separately, by credits.

The table’s sources, checked on October 28, 2026, are further down, in the list of sources.

When Andavor makes more sense

  • When you want your own AI, trained for sales, serving your customers: Andavor’s runs on infrastructure operated by Andavor itself, and the content of conversations is not sent to any third-party AI provider.
  • When you want the AI on your store’s WhatsApp, on the number it already has, connected in the dashboard: through Meta’s official WhatsApp, logging in with your company’s Facebook, or by QR code, like WhatsApp Web.
  • In a clothing store, when “do you have it in M?” and “do you have it in another color?” need an answer with the stock of each product version, and “how much is shipping?” needs a quote by the customer’s ZIP code, once your shipping tool is integrated.
  • In a phone store, when “do you have the 256 GB?” and “how many installments?” need the price and stock of each version and the installments you set.
  • In a furniture store, when “will it fit in my living room?” needs the dimensions in the product description, and shipping needs a quote by ZIP code with the package weight and dimensions, once your shipping tool is integrated.
  • In a building supply store, when the order has several items and the customer wants to know the stock, the price and whether you deliver to the job site.
  • When the customer compares products, changes their mind or goes back to an earlier topic: the AI keeps up with the conversation, without forcing the customer to follow a script.
  • When the conversation needs to end in an order: on WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, the AI builds the order with the items and the total and, once your tools are integrated, quotes shipping and creates the charge in your own account.
  • When a sale comes in at night or on the weekend and can’t wait until the next morning.
  • When the same stock, price and shipping questions take up your team’s day.
  • When customers ask their own way, with typos or across several messages.
  • When customers reach you on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and your website, and you want the same AI on all four, with every conversation in one dashboard.
  • When yours is a niche store with a high average order value, and customers already ask questions by message: that’s where it works best.
  • When you want to sign up directly on the website, with no setup fee and no long-term contract, and start with Personal’s 14 days free.
  • When you want to follow and adjust the AI in the app: you teach the AI with your store’s website, documents and images and, when an answer needs to change, your attendant proposes the fix where that information lives, and nothing changes until you apply it.
  • When you want to stay in charge: you follow everything in the app, take over any conversation on WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook whenever you want, and every answer keeps a record of what was checked to produce it.

It doesn’t make things up: price, stock and shipping come from a lookup in the system. When it passes the conversation to your team is up to you, in the Instructions.

A conversation it passes to your team shows up in your dashboard as waiting for you (Precisa de você), and the AI replies in it again 12 hours later, or sooner if you hand it back.

For copy, spreadsheets and emails in Microsoft 365, Copilot handles it; to serve your store’s customers, Andavor has its own AI, trained for sales.

What it costs

At Andavor, the price is per plan, per month, with AI usage included: Personal costs $20.00, Essential $110.00 and MAX $210.00. With setup help and direct support, Business Essential costs $190.00 and Business MAX $290.00; Enterprise is priced together with you. Every plan includes WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and the website chat, with no setup fee and no long-term contract, and Personal starts with 14 days free.

Each plan includes a monthly AI usage limit; when a month needs more, you buy usage credits. On the official WhatsApp, Meta charges its WhatsApp fees separately, and free allowances follow its rules (Meta’s pricing page); the math is in What AI costs. You can cancel in the dashboard at any time.

On Microsoft’s U.S. pages, checked on October 28, 2026, in US dollars, Copilot is free with a Microsoft account, with usage limits; Microsoft 365 Personal, in the plans for individuals, costs $9.99 a month; and Business Standard with Copilot, in the plans for business, costs $23.50 per user per month, paid yearly. Copilot Studio costs $200.00 a month per pack of 25,000 credits, or is billed pay-as-you-go. Prices vary by country.

How to get started without dropping what you use

  1. Create your account at Create account and choose Personal: it comes with 14 days free, and nothing is charged during the trial.
  2. You don’t need to drop Copilot: it stays on copy and spreadsheets, and Andavor’s AI takes on the conversation with your customers.
  3. Connect the channel your customers already use: your store’s WhatsApp, through Meta’s official WhatsApp or by QR code, with no new number; Instagram and Facebook, with your store’s account; or the website chat, with the plugin or a line of code. If a bot already answers on that WhatsApp, keep one AI per number: two answering the same customer trip over each other.
  4. Before turning the attendant on for WhatsApp, chat with it as if you were a customer: only you see that conversation, and no real order or charge happens.
  5. Bring in your catalog and tell it how your store sells: in a WooCommerce store, products come from the website; on other platforms, you add them in the app’s Catalog. Integrate your payment provider to charge and your shipping tool to quote shipping.
  6. Turn the attendant on and follow the conversations in the app. You can take over any conversation on WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, pause a channel whenever you want and cancel in the dashboard at any time.

The whole path, from sign-up to the attendant turned on, is in Getting started.

Where the Copilot information comes from

From Microsoft’s official pages, checked on October 28, 2026: Copilot, individuals, business, Copilot Studio and WhatsApp in Copilot Studio. Prices change with the country and over time: check before deciding. Copilot is Microsoft’s, with no ties to Andavor.

Questions

Does Copilot work on WhatsApp?

For a company, the Copilot Studio documentation (October 28, 2026) describes how to publish an agent on WhatsApp: those connected before October 23, 2026 keep working, and after that date there are no new connections through that experience. For individual use of Copilot, check with Microsoft. For your store’s WhatsApp, Andavor has its own AI, trained for sales: it understands your customers, uses your company’s knowledge and guides each conversation, on the number your store already has, by QR code or through Meta’s official WhatsApp. In the Andavor app, you follow the conversations and take over any of them whenever you want.

What is Microsoft Copilot and how does it work?

According to Microsoft, it’s an AI assistant for work and life, on the web, on mobile and in Microsoft 365 apps. Andavor’s AI has another job: it’s its own, trained for sales, and it serves your store’s customers on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and your website chat, while the Andavor app is where you follow, teach and adjust that service.

What are Copilot’s plans and pricing?

On Microsoft’s U.S. pages, checked on October 28, 2026, in US dollars: free with a Microsoft account, with usage limits; Microsoft 365 Personal, $9.99 a month; Business Standard with Copilot, $23.50 per user per month, paid yearly. Prices vary by country. At Andavor, plans start at $20.00/month, with AI usage included and 14 days free on Personal.

Is Copilot free?

According to Microsoft, there’s a free plan with a Microsoft account, with usage limits. At Andavor, Personal comes with 14 days free: the card goes in at sign-up, and nothing is charged during the trial.

What is Copilot Studio, and can it be used on my store’s WhatsApp?

It’s Microsoft’s platform for a company to create its own agents with no code, sold separately from Copilot, with an Azure subscription. At Andavor, you don’t build a flow: you connect your store’s WhatsApp, your catalog and your payment provider in the app and turn the attendant on, and it answers with the price and stock in your catalog and follows the rules your store sets.

And when Andavor’s AI doesn’t know the answer?

Andavor’s AI doesn’t make things up: price, stock and shipping come from a lookup in the system. When it passes the conversation to your team is up to you, in the Instructions. A conversation it passes to your team shows up in your dashboard as waiting for you (Precisa de você), and the AI replies in it again 12 hours later, or sooner if you hand it back. Every answer keeps a record of what was checked to produce it: price, shipping, order status.

Is Copilot good?

It depends on what you need. Copilot helps produce documents, spreadsheets and presentations in the apps people already use. If your store needs an AI trained for sales that answers customers with your real catalog and, on WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, builds the order and, once your tools are integrated, charges in your own account, with no coding, that’s what Andavor does.

What are the alternatives to Microsoft Copilot?

To serve your store’s customers, Andavor has its own AI, trained for sales, that understands the customer, uses your company’s knowledge and guides each conversation on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and your website chat; in the Andavor app, you follow, teach and adjust that service. In this site’s Alternatives section, Andavor is compared side by side with ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini too.