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Returns

Returns & exchanges management software

Returns automation that enhances the returns and exchanges experience, reduces returns-related costs, and retains more revenue.

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Why AfterShip Returns is your brand’s best choice

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Recapture more revenue by encouraging exchanges

  • In-app or on-store exchanges, incorporating incentives like store credits
  • Streamlined returns experience with multiple conversion points to encourage product exchanges
  • Variant exchange and Shopify and Stripe Checkout support
why we win returns

Recapture more revenue by encouraging exchanges

  • In-app or on-store exchanges, incorporating incentives like store credits
  • Streamlined returns experience with multiple conversion points to encourage product exchanges
  • Variant exchange and Shopify and Stripe Checkout support

Global network & convenience

manage returns across global carriers k drop off sites
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Manage returns across global carriers & 300K+ drop-off sites

  • Printless, QR code drop-off for major carriers, including FedEx, USPS, Royal Mail, & Canada Post
  • More than 9,000 Return Bars from Happy Returns supported in the U.S.

Complete policy automation

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why we win returns

Easily automate complex return policies

  • Conditional resolutions, policy enforcement, stackable routing rules, and return rules for multiple and bulky items
  • RMA creation, Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN) generation, and item receipt automation with preferred 3PL systems

In-app reverse logistics

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why we win returns

Convenient in-app reverse logistics management

  • Auto shipping label generation with 68 carriers worldwide without additional software
  • Returns & exchanges tracking without additional software purchase
  • Discounted shipping rate with USPS partners in the U.S. & smart carrier rate shopping
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Your customers deserve a better returns experience

All retailers have to deal with returns--it's unavoidable, time-consuming, and often unprofitable. But it doesn't have to be that way.
 With AfterShip Returns, retailers can transform product returns into new opportunities thanks to comprehensive resolutions, including incentivized exchanges and refund-to-store credits. Furthermore, our customizable return policy automation, in-app reverse logistics management, and extensive platform support offer customers complete convenience without geographic and platform limitations. Convert customers who make returns into brand advocates and drive significant revenue retention.

Automated returns solution that retains revenue and customers

Recapture revenue with product exchanges, fraud prevention, and partial refunds.

50%

revenue retained with exchanges

Recapture revenue

Key features

Refunds & Exchanges

Offer shoppers flexible returns resolution, supporting on-store & instant exchanges. Retain traffic and revenue with incentivized exchanges and store credits.

Set automated workflows to detect and prevent returns fraud by analyzing returns frequency for designated shoppers and weight discrepancies. Protect your profitability by reducing policy abuses.

Partial Returns & Bundles

Accept individual item returns from bundled purchases to avoid full-bundle returns. Refund the prorated value of items or the bundle’s average item price.

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Seamless integration

Leverage our global network of carriers to offer automated returns pickup, label generation, and 310,000+ returns drop-off locations. Our network of carriers covers 95% of customers worldwide.

Create RMAs on 3PL platforms, such as ShipBob and ShipHero, upon return request approval. Auto-trigger a status update upon return receipt. Gain enhanced inventory management at your 3PLs.

An efficient tech stack is essential for efficient operations. Integrate seamlessly to platforms such as BigCommerce, Gorgias, Klaviyo, Shopify, and WooCommerce without lengthy development.

Implement platform-agnostic integrations with your OMS, TMS, WMS, and other systems. Get the most robust Returns APIs and webhooks to save time and developer resources.

How AfterShip Returns customers boost revenue and retention

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    "AfterShip Returns has enabled us to significantly reduce resolution times, enhance the overall process, and thereby, drastically improve customer satisfaction."

    Rui Kojima

    Senior Director of eCommerce Aetrex

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Choose the perfect plan for your business

Essentials

Growing stores <100 returns per month

from

$16 /month
  • A hosted, on-brand returns flow with your logo, colors, and policy.
  • Process refunds back to original payment and exchanges for a different size, color, or even a different product entirely.
  • Generate return labels and packing slips inside AfterShip with pre-negotiated carrier rates.
  • Define and enforce what's returnable based on price, category, condition, days since purchase, or any combination.
  • Route returns to the right warehouse based on origin, SKU, or destination with no manual work.
  • Rules approve eligible returns instantly and route the rest — no manual review for the 80% of returns you'd approve anyway.
  • See detailed data on return reasons, refund values, and the amount saved from offering exchanges
  • Issue refunds as store credit instead of cash back with extra credit as incentive to keep revenue in the store.
  • Track the return shipment back to your warehouse inside AfterShip.
  • Automatic status emails at every post-purchase stage so shoppers don't email CS asking.
  • Connect up to 3 carrier accounts for return label generation, with pre-negotiated rates from AfterShip partners.

Premium

Established brands 100–400 returns per month

from

$99 /month
  • Multi-step conditional approval flows, exception handling that automatically scales when 100+ returns/month becomes 500+.
  • Surface higher-AOV or better-fit exchange options at the moment of return, personalized to the shopper.
  • Detect serial returners, wardrobing, and policy abuse with pattern matching across your customer base.
  • Discover return reasons, transit reports, on-time-delivery, refund-recovery. Slice by SKU, channel, or destination.
  • Connect with Klaviyo, Gorgias, Zendesk, ShipStation, NetSuite, and your WMS — so returns data flows where your teams already work.
  • Programmatic access to RMAs, events, refunds, and exchanges — push status into your own systems, build bespoke shopper experiences, and react to returns in real time without polling.
  • Consumer-funded return protection — shoppers pay a small fee at checkout for free returns.
  • Manage and process warranty claims through the same portal as returns — no separate vendor, no extra contract, no duplicate workflows for your CS team.
  • Accept in-store returns and exchanges for online orders with unified inventory and refund records across channels.
  • Connect up to 5 carrier accounts for return label generation, with pre-negotiated rates from AfterShip partners.
  • Let shoppers fix their own orders (address, size, items, etc.)

Enterprise

Global brands 400+ returns per month

from

Custom
  • Custom rate limits sized to your peak volume — no throttling on high-traffic days like BFCM.
  • Bespoke approval workflows, custom rules engines, and custom reports scoped during onboarding.
  • For Enterprise customers running proprietary OMS, WMS, or ERP systems where a pre-built connector doesn't exist.
  • A named onboarding lead and ongoing Customer Success Manager who own your launch, QBRs, and roadmap influence.
  • Contractual uptime and response-time SLAs, plus the security reviews, DPAs, and certifications enterprise procurement requires.
  • SAML / OIDC SSO with your IdP (Okta, Azure AD, etc.) so user provisioning and access stay in lockstep with your IT controls.
  • Custom MSAs, payment terms, data-residency requirements, and procurement-friendly paperwork.
  • Run multiple brands, regions, and teams from one AfterShip org with isolated workspaces, role-based access, and consolidated reporting.
  • Connect unlimited carrier accounts with custom discounted rates negotiated through AfterShip's enterprise carrier program.

See how AfterShip Returns stacks up against alternatives

Choosing a returns management platform? Get a detailed, side-by-side breakdown of exchange workflows, automation, and refund speed.

How AfterShip Returns brings incremental revenue and saves costs

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Your projected ROI (US$):

$109,463

per year

Lost revenue recaptured

Revenue retained from refund alternatives (store credit, replacement, exchange)

$46,800

Incremental revenue

Upsell revenue from exchange for other items

$25,475

Cost reduction

Manpower cost saved annually

$37,188

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