Return fees can be applied when setting up your return policy.
ReturnGO supports several types of fees:
1. Restocking Fee
Charged per item.
This fee can be:
- Free
- Charged as:
- A fixed amount.
- A percentage of the item’s catalog price.
- A percentage of the item’s paid price.
2. Return Label Fee
Charged per RMA.
This fee can be:
- Not provided.
Note: This is used if you will not be issuing a pre-paid label on a policy rule. An example of this would be the ship with any carrier return method.
If a pre-paid label is not given by the merchant, there won’t be associated fees.
- Free
- Charged as a fixed amount
- Cost-based
- Cost
- Cost + per item fee
- Cost + per shipment fee
- Cost-based
Return label fees can be applied to policy rules that use either of these return methods:
- Ship with any carrier
- Ship with pre-paid label
3. Return Fee
Charged per RMA.
This fee can be:
- Free
- Charged as:
- A fixed amount.
- A percentage of paid price of each item in the RMA.
Calculating the Overall Balance
In the resolution selection page of the return portal, the available resolutions are presented to the customer, including a breakdown of how the balance is calculated.
The overall balance is calculated as the paid price, plus all bonuses, minus all deductible fees.
What Does Paid Price Mean?
- The paid price represents the amount the customer paid in the original order.
- The paid price is calculated using the formula below:
- Paid price = catalog price - discount.
What are Bonuses?
Bonuses represent the sum of the following:
- Incentives that are offered in the resolution.
- In the case of an exchange, the price difference for choosing a cheaper variant.
What are Fees?
Fees represent the sum of the following:
- Restocking fee
- Return label fee
Note: In the case of multi-item returns, the return label fee is presented after the calculation of the subtotals per item.
- In the case of an exchange, the price difference for choosing a more expensive variant.
Charging Return Fees
Return fees are deducted from the refundable amount.
The return fees are accounted for in calculating the overall balance, so that the overall balance shows the customer the amount they will get or pay.
If the overall balance is a positive amount, the customer can expect to receive a refund.
If the overall balance is a negative amount:
- ReturnGO will create a draft order which includes all the relevant fees.
- For exchanges, the price difference for choosing a more expensive variant will appear in a second draft order. This is the draft order for the actual exchange, and the customer is invoiced upon releasing the exchange.
Configuring Return Fees
To configure your return fees:
1. Go to Settings > Return Policy.
2. Open the policy rule to which to apply a fee.
Note: Fees can only be applied to a policy rule with a return method type of ship with any carrier or ship with pre-paid label.
3. Open the Additional Payments section.
4. Define the fees you want to charge.
5. Click on the save icon to save your changes.
Fee Taxation
Determine whether you want taxes to be applied to each of the fees you charge. You can specify whether each type of fee is taxable or non-taxable.
- Don’t add tax - Non-taxable fees mean that when the fee or its remaining balance is added to the Charged Fees draft order, tax will not be included.
- Add tax - If you set a fee as taxable, its price will be displayed without tax in the portal, and the tax will be applied when the customer is billed for the fee or its remaining amount.
You can set the default of which fees should be subject to tax, and additionally, taxation can be customized per fee at the policy rule level, making it possible to define fee taxation differently for specific policy rules.
To define the default settings for which fees will be taxed:
- Go to Settings > Store Settings.
- Open the General Returns section.
- Toggle each fee type to define whether to add tax to it or not.
- Click on the save icon to save your changes.
To define fee taxation for specific policy rules:
- Go to Settings > Return Policy.
- Select the policy rule you want to edit.
- Set the fees you want to charge for this policy rule.
- For each fee, set whether to charge tax or not.
Waive All Fees
You can create specific policy rules that will waive all fees in the RMA, so that if a customer selects multiple policy rules and one of them is set to waive all fees, then any fees associated with the RMA will be overridden.
To set a policy rule that will waive all fees:
- Go to Settings > Return Policy.
- Select the policy rule you want to edit.
4. In the Fees dropdown, select Waive All Fees.
5. Click on the save icon to save your changes.
