Returns Leak Calculator

How much are your returns actually costing you?

Total parcels shipped per year

15%

Industry average is 15–20%. Fashion typically runs higher.

%
16.67%

Average value of a single customer order

You don't have a returns problem. You have a visibility problem.

By the time a return hits your system, the damage is done. Unless you're running parcelLab.

Today

Basic returns portal

Feels disconnected from your brand

Same experience for every customer

VIPs and repeat returners treated the same

Customers contact support for updates

More tickets, more cost

Refund = end of journey

No opportunity to retain the customer

No follow-up after return

Customer relationship ends there

No visibility into risky return behavior

Fraud and abuse go unnoticed until it's too late

With parcelLab

Fully branded returns experience

Feels like part of your customer journey

Segmented returns flows

Tailored by customer value, behavior, and context

Proactive return updates

Fewer tickets, better visibility

Exchange + retention options

Keep revenue in the business

Post-return engagement

Turn returns into repeat purchases

Dynamic segmentation by behavior

Flag and handle high-risk returns differently

What sets us apart

Three reasons retailers choose parcelLab.

Decision engine, not demos

Segment and adapt every return based on customer behavior, value, and risk — not one-size-fits-all rules.

Plugs into your stack

Your Salesforce. Your carriers. Your frontend. Your ESP. We fit your stack, not the other way around.

Ready for agentic commerce

Built on billions of post-purchase signals. MCP-native and agent-ready from day one, not bolted on later.

How parcelLab delivers

One platform. Two layers of control.

The shopper-facing experience, and the backend logic that powers it. Both, on the same data layer.

Experience layer

What shoppers see: yours, end to end.

Branded self-service

On-site portal, your domain

Flexible compensation

Refund, exchange, credit, keep

Any return method

QR, BORIS, pickup, no-ship

Real-time comms

Email, SMS, WhatsApp

Smart exchanges

1:1 retention offers

A multi-brand European apparel group with 20+ brands across 30+ markets wanted to turn returns from a cost center into a loyalty driver.

Fewer "Where Is My Return" tickets
29%
More self-service resolution
14%
Retained via exchanges & credit
+€4M
Returns reached warehouse
93.5%
Control layer

Everything behind the portal, controlled.

Rules engine

Tier, value, risk, region

Fraud intelligence

Behavioural signals, risk tiers

Smart routing

Multi-DC, split, marketplace

Claims & warranty

Approvals, edge cases, CS flows

Headless & composable

Your UI, our backend

A global fashion retailer operating across 70+ markets needed one returns infrastructure that could handle massive volume without sacrificing consistency or cost control.

Digital returns processed
110M+
Paperless returns
75M
Annualised revenue retained
€1.58M
Markets unified
70+

Ready to stop the leak?

See how parcelLab turns returns into revenue.