How retail actually sells in Thailand
Chat is the storefront, the counter and the receipt
A very large share of Thai retail happens inside a chat conversation. The customer sees a product in a feed or a live session, asks a question in chat, receives photographs and a price, sends an address, and pays by transfer or on delivery. The physical branch, where one exists, is a showroom and a pickup point rather than the place the sale is made.
Live selling creates orders faster than anyone can record them
During a session, comments and messages arrive together and every one of them is a potential order with a size, a quantity and an address. Teams commonly capture them as screenshots and reconstruct the list afterwards, which is where orders are lost, duplicated or shipped to the wrong person.
Payment and delivery decide whether an order becomes revenue
Transfers need confirming, cash on delivery needs a customer who will actually answer the door, and provincial routes take longer than Bangkok ones. A store that counts an order as a sale at the moment the customer says yes will consistently overstate its performance and understate its refusal rate.