Using a branded returns portal enables you to automate your returns & exchange process and provide a positive self-service customer experience.
Returns have been a challenge for Shopify merchants around the world for years. The returns process is expensive and hard to manage. In our digital age customers have come to expect a fast and easy returns process. In fact, 92% of consumers say that they will buy again if the returns process is easy.
Shopify merchants are increasingly turning to automated and simplified returns solutions. This is where returns portals come in.
What is a Returns Portal?
A returns portal is an automated returns system that helps customers easily request returns and exchanges through your website. The portal seamlessly integrates with your Shopify store and prompts your customer through a series of questions to determine which items need to be returned and why. Your customers then receive automatic emails with updates about their return request.
The return portal provides a self-service experience for your customers to easily select items to return or exchange, and choose their method of return or refund, with no need for phone calls or back-and-forth chats and emails. This removes pressure from your support team and enables you to easily process returns while ensuring a smoother experience for your customers.
A branded returns portal is the first step toward a more efficient and reliable return experience for your customers and for your team.
How a Returns Portal works:
Branded vs Unbranded Return Portal
Just as you put thought and effort into designing your website, your return portal shouldn’t be any different. Customized return portals that are consistent with your store’s style make your customer feel connected to your brand, and positively associate the returns experience with your store.
Redirecting your customers to a generic returns portal can confuse them and create suspicion about entering personal details. The returns process should be a natural extension of your store.
Customizing your return portal from end to end with your brand’s colors, fonts, and voice creates a consistent message across your online store.
Having a user-friendly return experience leaves a positive impression on your customers, making them more likely to buy from you again.
One-Click Exchange
Your return portal can reduce your return rate by offering easy exchanges as an alternative. This way customers who want a different size or color of the item they ordered can exchange it in a click.
The portal takes into account price differences of variants and also provides the option of exchanging the product for a different product altogether, depending on the eligibility conditions that you define.
Comprehensive Return Management Dashboard
As far as your customers are concerned, the return portal is where the return takes place. But as we know, there’s also the back-end of returns. Fortunately, this side of the returns process can be made simple as well. You can seamlessly manage your return requests on a personalized return management dashboard.
On your returns management dashboard, you can customize what your customers see and how the return portal works. Define your custom return policy, select eligibility conditions for returns, and set up integrations with your shipping carriers of choice.
Insights and Tracking
The data you gather from your return portal lets you see frequent return reasons and how your customers like to handle returns. The return management dashboard is designed to provide you with insights into your customers’ return statistics and enable you to track all your return requests in one place.
The analytics dashboard also provides insights into what items people most commonly return so that you can make data-driven decisions to reduce your return rate.
Conclusion:
An automated, self-service returns portal that reflects your brand helps you support more customers in less time while increasing loyalty, profits, and customer lifetime value.
Make returns easy for your customers and for your team. Using our return & exchange portal, your customers can easily return items and you can efficiently manage all your return requests in one place.
