How to Save on Return Shipping with AfterShip + VESYL

In today’s ecommerce landscape, where customer expectations are high and margins are tight, efficient return shipping is more than just a support function—it’s a strategic lever. How you handle returns can significantly impact your bottom line, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

For ecommerce, logistics, and supply chain leaders managing high return volumes, optimizing the AfterShip returns experience with VESYL offers a practical and immediate way to lower costs, improve label generation, and simplify workflows, without sacrificing shopper satisfaction.

The Real Cost of Return Shipping at Scale

Returns are one of the few guaranteed costs in ecommerce. Research shows that 20% to 30% of online purchases are returned, and the return shipping label often costs as much (or more) than the original shipment.

At scale, this creates challenges such as:

• Manual rate comparison across carriers (USPS, UPS, FedEx)
• Inconsistent returns policy across SKUs or geographic locations
• Higher-than-necessary return shipping label and shipment costs
• Fragmented tools with no automation for label generation or status updates
• Operational delays that reduce customer satisfaction and impact your business

If your team is still:

• Creating return labels outside your core platforms
• Managing returns manually via email or spreadsheets
• Using basic refunds or one-size-fits-all routing rules

You're likely experiencing lost revenue, wasted time, and unnecessary complexity.

An Automated Returns Solution: The AfterShip + VESYL Advantage

To help brands streamline the return process and control return shipping costs, AfterShip now offers a seamless integration with VESYL. Together, they deliver an automated returns solution that enables:

• Access to discounted USPS and UPS return labels
• Real-time rate shopping and shipping service comparison
• One-click return label creation directly in AfterShip
• Full access to VESYL's Basic Plan, including outbound shipping features, at no cost

This means you can generate a return shipping label with minimal setup, reduce costs automatically, and offer a more convenient return experience.

How It Works: Simplify Label Generation and Save Time

Within just 4 steps and a few minutes, you can save time and money on returns with VESYL and AfterShip.

1. Create a free VESYL account: Sign up here
2. In AfterShip, go to Carriers > Add Carrier
3. Search for VESYL, enter your API credentials
4. Once connected, VESYL automatically selects the cheapest USPS or UPS shipping label based on your rules, destination, and package weight, within the AfterShip app. No more toggling between pages.

Customers receive the return shipping label via email or can simply print it from the returns portal—no extra steps required. Merchants can also offer QR codes for printer-free drop-offs at the post office or UPS locations.

How You Can Reduce Costs, Save Time, and Simplify With AfterShip Returns

With VESYL powering AfterShip returns, you unlock new levels of efficiency:

Reduce Costs

VESYL's pre-negotiated USPS and UPS rates help you lower costs on every return shipment, whether you're handling apparel, accessories, health products, or electronics. Stop overpaying for flat-rate or custom-return contracts.

Save Time with Automation

Automate label creation, shipping rules, and refund workflows to save time and reduce manual errors. Use pre-built integrations and basic routing rules to match carriers with the most cost-effective shipping service.

Enhance the Return Experience

Offer branded portals, email notifications, and scheduled pickups so your customers can start a return request, print or scan their label, and drop off the package—on their own time. No support ticket or additional fee required.

Capture More Revenue with Better Visibility

With real-time status updates and tracking for each return shipment, your team stays in control. Minimize lost revenue due to delayed refunds, and offer fast replacement or exchange workflows with confidence.

Who Should Use This Return Shipping Label Integration?

This integration is ideal for:

Roles:

• Operations Managers and Logistics Directors
• Fulfillment Teams and 3PL Coordinators
• eCommerce Directors and VPs of Operations

Industries:

• Apparel & Accessories, Subscription Boxes, Electronics
• Health & Wellness (DTC), Wholesale and Retail Distribution
• Multi-location Brands and 3PLs managing client return policies

If you're shipping high volume and need a more convenient, cost-effective way to manage returns and label creation, AfterShip + VESYL is built for you.

More Than Returns: Unlock VESYL’s Free Basic Plan

When you activate the integration, you also get access to VESYL’s full Basic Plan, which includes:

• Outbound multi-carrier rate shopping (USPS, UPS, FedEx)
• Batch shipping label creation
• Package automation and allocation tools
• Order editing and adjustment workflows
• Dashboard reports to track shipping costs and revenue impact

Use these tools alongside AfterShip to optimize both the original shipment and any return shipment.

Returns Are Inevitable. Overpaying For Return Labels Isn’t.

Returns will always be part of ecommerce. But thanks to VESYL’s integration with AfterShip, you no longer have to accept high return costs, manual work, or disconnected systems as the norm.

With this automated returns solution, you can:

• Lower costs with optimized return labels
• Save time through automation
• Improve customer satisfaction and protect revenue
• Enable more control across the return lifecycle

Ready to unlock smarter returns for your business? Start with VESYL + AfterShip today.

Create your free VESYL account and start generating low-cost, automated return labels in minutes.