Returns Revenue Recovery Calculator
See how much cash you could recover by reselling your returned and open-box inventory, right on your own store, in under 60 seconds.
Assumes about half of returns cannot be resold as new (Optoro) and open-box resale realises about 60% of retail, kept conservative. Marketplace lanes deduct published base fees only, before any ads or outbound shipping.
Best outcome$0keeps 95%with DRIP
20,000+ items resold · 1,000+ stores · Rated 5.0 on the Shopify App Store · Built for Shopify
Every way to move a return, side by side
Fees, effort, automation, and who keeps the customer. Here is the honest breakdown of every route a returned item can take.
| Returns For SaleThe DRIP way |
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Clearance on your page |
Liquidator | Write it off | |
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| What you keep of the sale | 95%just 5% per sale, and 100% your first 30 days | ~81% 13.6% + $0.40 fees, plus promoted listings to get seen | ~75% 15% referral, plus ads and warehousing fees | 100%minus the labor | 15 to 30¢ on the dollar | Tax value onlyat tax time |
| Effort per item | Under a minuteright in your Shopify admin | Run a second platformlistings, logins, buyer messages | Run a second platformlistings, logins, buyer messages | Duplicate, discount, babysit | Palletize, ship out | Paperwork |
| Sells on the original product page | ✓built-in widget, no code | ✕off your site entirely | ✕off your site entirely | ✕needs custom development and maintenance | — | — |
| Automated daily markdown | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | — | — |
| Cleans itself up when sold | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕manual removal, oversell risk | — | — |
| Buyer stays your customerfuture purchases, upsells, data, traffic | ✓their email, their next order, your traffic | ✕their buyer, their data | ✕their buyer, their data | ✓ | ✕ | — |
| When the cash arrives | Your checkout, right away | Their payout schedule | Their payout schedule | Your checkout | Pennies at pickup | Next tax season |
How we estimate what each platform takes
The chart uses the midpoint of each platform's realistic range, from published rates. Fees alone are the floor; being seen usually costs more. Every figure is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- eBay, you keep roughly 74 to 86% (we chart 81%). The final value fee is about 13.6% plus $0.40 per order, charged on the total including shipping, eBay's own example says sellers keep "approximately 85%" before any ads. Promoted Listings are near-mandatory in competitive categories (about half of all listings are promoted; suggested ad rates run 8 to 12%, minimum 2%). Fee-only sellers keep ~86%; sellers paying suggested ad rates keep ~74%. ebay.com fees · promoted listings
- Amazon, you keep roughly 65 to 85% (we chart 75%). Referral fees are about 15% in most categories, selling refurbished via Amazon Renewed adds about 1%, FBA warehousing adds storage, aged-inventory and returns-processing fees, and typical reseller ad spend runs about 5% of sales. Marketplace Pulse pegs Amazon's average total take above 50% once full fulfillment and ads are counted; our 25% take is deliberately conservative and excludes shipping you would pay anywhere. sell.amazon.com · marketplacepulse.com
- Liquidator, 15 to 30 cents on the dollar. Bulk pallet pricing. reverselogix.com
- Write-off, tax value only. You deduct your cost basis, not the retail price, when the inventory is disposed. netsuite.com
- Shared assumptions. About half of returns cannot be resold as new (Optoro, via CNBC); open-box resale realises about 60% of retail, kept conservative (NRF, Corso).
It's not whether to do it. It's how.
Most people just download and learn, the app is simple. Prefer a hand? We'll set you up live in 15 minutes.
Download & Learn
Install from the Shopify App Store and follow our short video series. You'll be live in under an hour.
- No subscription, no setup fee, first 30 days commission-free
- Step-by-step videos walk you through every screen
- List your first return in under a minute
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