Canned response examples you can customize and copy

Browse 15 canned response examples for the situations support teams handle every day, then use the free generator to rewrite any of them in your tone, for email or chat, with your company and customer names filled in.

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Describe the situation

Tone
Warm and casual, first names
Channel
For example: within 4 business hours

Your canned response

Pick a situation and tone, add your company name and press Generate reply. You can edit the text before you copy it.

Canned response examples for customer support

Written for a fictional store called Lumen Shop in a friendly tone. Copy one as it is, or pick the same situation in the generator above to change the tone, channel and names.

Acknowledge a new request

Getting started

Hi Sam, Thanks for getting in touch! We've received your message and a member of our team is looking into it. We'll reply as soon as we can. If you have screenshots or an order number, reply to this message with them and they will be added to your request. If anything else comes up, just reply here. Happy to help! Cheers, Maya Lumen Shop Support

Ask for more details

Getting started

Hi Sam, Thanks for the message! To look into this properly, could you share a few more details about what happened and when? As soon as I have that, I'll pick this up right away. If anything else comes up, just reply here. Happy to help! Cheers, Maya Lumen Shop Support

Refund approved

Orders and billing

Hi Sam, Good news! Your refund has been approved and is on its way. Depending on your bank or card provider, it can take a few business days to show up on your statement. You don't need to do anything else. We'll send a confirmation once the refund has been processed. If anything else comes up, just reply here. Happy to help! Cheers, Maya Lumen Shop Support

Refund not possible

Orders and billing

Hi Sam, Thanks for asking about a refund. I've looked into it carefully, and unfortunately this request doesn't meet our refund policy. I'd still like to help. If you tell me what went wrong, I'll check what other options we can offer. If anything else comes up, just reply here. Happy to help! Cheers, Maya Lumen Shop Support

Order is delayed

Orders and billing

Hi Sam, Thanks for checking in on your order. Your order has been delayed on its way to you. We're working with our delivery partner and will send you an updated delivery date as soon as we have it. Your tracking link will keep updating, and I'll keep an eye on it too. If anything else comes up, just reply here. Happy to help! Cheers, Maya Lumen Shop Support

Billing question

Orders and billing

Hi Sam, Thanks for asking about your bill. I've checked your account, and the charge is [explain what the charge is for in one sentence]. If it still doesn't look right, reply here and I'll go through it with you line by line. If anything else comes up, just reply here. Happy to help! Cheers, Maya Lumen Shop Support

Bug reported, team is on it

Product and technical

Hi Sam, Thanks so much for flagging this! I've passed the details to our product team so they can investigate. I'll update you here as soon as there's a fix. In the meantime, if you find a workaround or notice anything else, just reply and I'll add it to the report. If anything else comes up, just reply here. Happy to help! Cheers, Maya Lumen Shop Support

Feature request received

Product and technical

Hi Sam, Thanks for the great suggestion! I've shared your request with our product team. I can't promise when or if it will be built, but every request is reviewed and it helps us decide what to work on next. If anything else comes up, just reply here. Happy to help! Cheers, Maya Lumen Shop Support

Help signing in

Product and technical

Hi Sam, Sorry you're having trouble signing in! Please go to the sign-in page and choose "Forgot password". We'll email you a link to set a new password. It can take a few minutes to arrive, so check your spam folder too. For your security, our team will never ask you for your password. If anything else comes up, just reply here. Happy to help! Cheers, Maya Lumen Shop Support

Service outage apology

Product and technical

Hi Sam, Thanks for letting us know. We're aware of a problem affecting our service, and our team is working on a fix right now. I'll update you here as soon as everything is back to normal. Thank you for your patience while we sort this out. If anything else comes up, just reply here. Happy to help! Cheers, Maya Lumen Shop Support

Escalating to a specialist

Product and technical

Hi Sam, Thanks for your patience so far! To get you the right answer, I've passed your request to a specialist on our team. They have the full history of our conversation, so you won't need to explain anything again. They'll reply here. If anything else comes up, just reply here. Happy to help! Cheers, Maya Lumen Shop Support

Responding to a complaint

Wrapping up

Hi Sam, Thank you for telling us about this. You're right to expect better, and I'm sorry we let you down. Here's what I'm doing to put it right: [describe the next step]. I've also shared your feedback with the team so we can stop it from happening again. If anything else comes up, just reply here. Happy to help! Cheers, Maya Lumen Shop Support

Follow up when the customer goes quiet

Wrapping up

Hi Sam, Just checking in! Did my last message solve the problem, or is there anything else you need? If I don't hear back, I'll close this request soon. You can reopen it anytime by replying. Talk soon! Cheers, Maya Lumen Shop Support

Closing a resolved ticket

Wrapping up

Hi Sam, Glad we got that sorted! I'm marking this request as solved. If anything else comes up, just reply to this message and we will pick it right back up. Thanks for being a great customer! Cheers, Maya Lumen Shop Support

After-hours auto reply

Getting started

Hi Sam, Thanks for your message! Our team is offline right now, and we'll reply as soon as we're back. Your message is saved, so there's no need to send it again. If anything else comes up, just reply here. Happy to help! Cheers, Maya Lumen Shop Support

What makes a good support ticket response template

Every reply in this generator follows the same four-part shape, which works for almost any customer service reply template:

  1. Greeting with the customer's name.
  2. Acknowledgement that shows you understood the problem, and empathy when something went wrong.
  3. The answer or the next step, with any date, order number or link the customer needs.
  4. A clear close that tells them how to reply if they need more help.

How to write canned replies that do not sound canned

  • Write the way your team talks. If nobody on your team says "we apologize for any inconvenience", do not put it in a template.
  • Leave one obvious place to personalize, such as a bracketed note like [describe the next step], so agents never send a reply unedited.
  • Keep chat replies short. A message that fits on a phone screen gets read; a wall of text gets skimmed.
  • Match the tone to the moment. A friendly tone suits good news; an empathetic tone suits delays, refunds and complaints.

Customer service response templates for email and chat

Email replies need a full greeting and a sign-off with your name. Chat replies drop the sign-off and introduce the agent in the first line instead. Switch the channel in the generator and it rewrites the same reply both ways.

Canned responses for help desk teams

In a shared help desk, canned replies belong to the whole team, not to one person's inbox. In Kora Reply they are called saved replies: anyone on the team types a slash to search them, and variables fill in the customer's and agent's names automatically. Tick the variables option above to generate replies in that format.

Need a longer message with a subject line? The customer service email template generator writes full emails for delays, refunds, apologies and follow-ups.

Frequently asked questions

A canned response is a pre-written reply to a question your team answers often, such as a refund request or a shipping delay. Agents insert it, adjust the details and send it, instead of typing the same answer from scratch every time.

Only when they are sent unchanged. Use the customer's name, mention the specific order or problem, and remove any sentence that does not fit. The generator's optional detail field does part of this for you.

Start with the 10 to 20 questions that make up most of your tickets. Review them every few months and delete the ones nobody uses, so the list stays easy to search.

In Gmail, turn on Templates under Settings, See all settings, Advanced. Then write a reply, open the three-dot menu in the compose window and choose Templates, Save draft as template. Paste any reply from this page to save it.

Yes. Every example and every reply the generator writes is free to copy, edit and use, with no sign-up and no attribution required.

With the variables option on, the reply uses placeholders such as {{customer.first_name | "there"}} and {{agent.name}}. In Kora Reply, saved replies fill these in for each conversation, and the text after the bar is used when a value is missing.

No. Replies are generated in your browser from templates written by the Kora Reply team. Nothing is sent to us or to an AI service.

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