Reviews for Happy Returns by PayPal

Stay away. Not interested in working with majority of Shopify merchants anymore. They are clearly now focused on mega merchants with tons of returns.

Terrible experience. They charge you left and right for payment fees. Very very rude people working there. They simply do not care about the Customer. We are NOT Recommending this APP to Anyone if you don´t want to lose time get some alternative.

GYMREAPERS

2023-10-31

United States

Happy Returns has limited options to prevent fraudulent returns from impacting your business. You will have the option to auto-approve all exchange and refunds, or manually approve all exchanges and refunds. In addition to limited features, agents at the return bars do not verify the items that are being returned. If you use the return bar, you will receive items purchased from the Salvation Army, or items that appear to be stolen from a lost and found school pile. Work on your tech, Happy Returns.

Fantastic app with an appealing PayPal offer. However, it won't work for you if you're outside the US/Canada. Additionally, the customer service is slow and hasn't been much help. So, all EU stores should consider looking elsewhere.

Horrible! Turns out using the drop off locations, isn't really free, despite us using Paypal as a payment method for our customers on our website. Support did not even bother to respond since 4 days now. What a joke.

Taos Footwear

2023-10-03

United States

HappyReturns allows my customer to return & exchange with ease! I've used HR for years and the feedback from my customers means the world to us! They also have customizations to the portal as well as an array of reporting to choose from!

This app was initially a 4 star for me, losing one star because processing a return does not automatically restock inventory, requiring an additional step outside of the Happy Returns portal. The drop to 2 stars is because they do not make it abundantly clear that when using the Happy Returns Fedex account to generate return labels, you are NOT allowed to file a claim with Fedex for a lost package. Even in the event where Fedex is clearly in possession of the return package, and loses it along the way, you have absolutely no recourse due to Happy Return's contract with Fedex.

As a larger DTC Brand, HappyReturns is more than just an app, they're a wonderful partner. Technically speaking, integration with Shopify was easy and seamless (about a day of configuration work). Their onboarding team is fantastic (Hope is the best) and helped us through trickier technical implementation with our ERP/WMS. After the installation is what really matters, though. HappyReturns Return Bars, Returnista Apps, and mail rates have help save us materially save on carrier fees, labor, and customer service time. If you're a retailer of any appreciable size, you absolutely must be looking at this service.

My team and I have felt this app is beneficial in automating customer returns. My only piece of feedback is the applicability of copying settings across multiple stores, as we manage quite a few Shopify instances. Overall very happy though!

As many others have said, for a free app to Paypal users, HR is a nice way to integrate automated returns for customers but it does have its limitations. Better options for managing defective items and ability to make changes to orders within the dashboard all need to be improved. Also I've had some difficulties with getting help from the customer support team, often having to email multiple times before getting a response. Overall, I'm happy with what happy returns has to offer but I look forward to them making improvements that address all of the functionality requests so many people have made.

As others have said, being a free model if you're a PayPal customer makes this app very appealing and frankly it functions well once set in place. I feel it's on a good trajectory to be great as long as PP continues to add features and I'm overall please with the app so far. As with most complex app processes, it takes some work to get setup properly and if you have a 3rd party to integrate with, it will take having some knowledge on your side to make it work well. You cannot count on Happy Returns support to know your specific integration needs, so its up to you as the merchant to take the responsibility to customize and integrate to your expectations. I find it works well when setup properly and overall provides a very intuitive experience for my customers.

We implemented Happy Returns on ModCloth and are very happy with the outcome. The CEO of Betabrand told me that Happy Returns was one provider who upheld their word and that he was very pleased with the platform. This convinced me to add it to ModCloth. We anticipated a 65% adoption rate for the Happy Returns bar but it's a 75% adoption rate. Customers are really happy with the easy process and it's lowered the contacts to order for our Customer Service team. The only negative Customer reviews were one to two instances where a store employee was not trained on the return process but the HR team quickly contacted the location for training. The ModCloth team had a short learning curve on using their tags but once we understood time based tags, it was really helpful for blocking promotion based doorbusters from being returned. Overall, we are very happy with the product and the service.

Our onboarding experience has been great, and we had an easy time setting everything up! It integrates well with Shopify and while we're not looking forward to getting our first return, we know it will be in good hands with Happy Returns!

I appreciate the super simple process from the customer side but from the brand side, we are not notified when a return or exchange is started so customers may wait for a time before their return/exchange is actually credited. We've reached out several times without any replies.

Similar to a previous review, during the initial call you are told you can make customizations and all the great features when in reality, there is very little customization you can do. The on-boarding team is really unhelpful and not knowledgeable of their own product. The on-boarding team member we were set up with could not answer any of the questions we had and we had to follow-up several times to receive responses. Setting up Happy Returns took several weeks of back and forth which was incredibly frustrating. This solution will work for now as it is free with PayPal but definitely not a long term solution.

Spirit Jersey®

2023-04-03

United States

Although the service dashboard provides a quick overview of returns for customers and staff, it lacks some fundamental features that would make it great. One major issue is that you can't edit, archive, or cancel an existing return, which can be problematic. Suppose a customer requests a return, but then realizes they made a mistake or changes their mind. In that case, you can't modify the existing return, and you have to start a new one, leaving the old one sitting in the system indefinitely. This lack of functionality can cause confusion and miscommunication, especially when different people are handling returns and talking to customers. For example, if a customer initially requested a refund but then wants to exchange the item, you need to create a duplicate return in the system. However, if the customer accidentally used the paperwork for the refund instead of the exchange, your return department may issue a refund instead of an exchange, leading to upset customers and extra work for customer service representatives. To avoid such issues, it would be helpful to have a way to archive/hide a return in the admin or mark it as canceled, even if it doesn't change anything on the Shopify side. Additionally, there's no way to pre-set actions for a return, such as waiving the return processing fee. Instead, you can only enter notes into the return and hope that the rep who processes the return sees them. During busy periods like the holidays, this can become a significant problem. Therefore, adding such functionality would be a great improvement to the service. In summary: It is great for a solopreneur or stores with a return volume too low to warrant a more robust system.

The system is goo dbut half of the time the app was down. customers complained about not being able to access returns page.

We are very happy with happy returns. Is saving hours of time for our small support staff. Makes processing the few hundred returns we have each month very easy.

Terrible at getting you onboarded, did all the zoom calls and sold me the dream and now dont reply to emails, installed the app and been waiting 2 weeks to start using it..

Edit: Update to my review. Support came and sorted my issue and helped me setup my store. This app has really easy customisation, and support was very helpful. I'm looking forward to using it whenever a returns pops up. Unable to even use the app, get an error saying" Your email must contain @ and a domain" when signing up.

Very professional staff but unfortunately the app is so limited in features that we couldn't go ahead with this. The Paypal offer is appealing but not enough to lose key returns control we need.

Although the free service for pay pal stores is great, they recently instituted a $250.00 monthly minimum to utilize their return bar service which is what makes their process better than any of the others. They charge you per item when the customer drops off an item at one of the return bars which is fine but if you are not getting enough returns to get up to the $250.00 a month they bill you for the difference. Not great for all of us shopify new stores.

Wonderful returns app, especially considering the new pricing model for merchants accepting PayPal! Meets most of our needs. Features I would love to see in the future include: - Support for the Cainiao within Order Tracking, as this is the primary global courier for dropshipping. - The ability to approve or deny return requests based on customers' return reason (i.e. approve "arrived damaged," but deny "I didn't like it").

Great Concept. HORRIBLE customer service and very slow time to help you with issues. If you are paying this much a month for a service they should attend to your issues. LIKE LOGGING IN. It defaults every time to signing up for a new account and you can't log in. ALSO IT WONT LET YOU POST NEGATIVE REVIEWS.

Happy Returns have helped us improve the returns holistically. Experience to customers is flawless, internal processes improved, exchanges were optimised and the drop off location options have driven cost of returns down. Their team is efficient and easy to work and KPI dashboards are super helpful for decision making.