How Do You Manage Customer Returns?

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Discussion Overview

The thread explores various methods participants use to manage customer returns, highlighting personal experiences and tools for tracking return requests.

Discussion Character

  • Anecdotal
  • Opinion-based

Main Points Raised

  • One participant mentions struggling to keep track of return requests received through multiple channels, including email and social media.
  • Another participant suggests using a Microsoft Excel document as a potential tracking solution.
  • One participant shares their experience using a small notebook to record customer details and follow-up dates, noting that this method has worked well for them over the years.
  • Another participant discusses saving emails from the home office after submitting product adjustments and suggests creating a group name for returns in their system to facilitate tracking.
  • One participant expresses a lack of a formal system but appreciates the idea of using a notebook for its simplicity.
  • Another participant mentions using a tracking sheet and filing it once full as their method of organization.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Views differ on the effectiveness of various tracking methods, with no clear consensus on a single best approach emerging from the discussion.

Contextual Notes

Participants share personal experiences and tools that work for them, reflecting a range of practices based on individual preferences and available resources.

Who May Find This Useful

Consultants looking for different ways to manage customer returns may find the shared experiences and methods helpful in considering their own tracking systems.

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PamperedK
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For those of you that handle returns for your customers, how do you keep track? I have tried a few different "systems" but I'm having a hard time keeping track! I seem to get return requests via email, phone, at shows, through facebook, in person, text, etc....and I need an easy way to keep track of everything so I can follow up and make sure everyone's happy.

Any suggestions?
 
a microsoft excel document?
 
I have a tiny 5"X7" spiral bound notebook. I write the date I heard from the customer, the customers name, address and phone number, the issue - and then the date I called home office and the reference number they gave me. I then write down the date I contact the customer again. I do not mail things back for them - they have to do that themselves. I follow up with them in about two weeks to make sure it has gotten done. Then I just put a great big checkmark on the entire entry to know it is completed. A little old fashioned but it gets the job done and I don't have a ton of customers having problems with their stuff -even considering I try to help anyone who comes to me whether they purchased the product from me or not. I do 2-4 shows a month and at least two vendor fairs a year and the notebook I am using, I have been using since Jan 2009 and I have only filled six pages front and back - that's about four entries on each side. Not a lot. We have great products!
 
Unfortunately, I really don't have a "system", but I do save the emails from HO once I have submitted the product adjustment. I do try to make note of it under the contact notes in PP3. I just had a thought. What if you create a group name "Returns" or Adjustments, and that way you could run a report anytime you need to follow up with those customers, or to find those customers easily.
 
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Bren706 said:
Unfortunately, I really don't have a "system", but I do save the emails from HO once I have submitted the product adjustment. I do try to make note of it under the contact notes in PP3. I just had a thought. What if you create a group name "Returns" or Adjustments, and that way you could run a report anytime you need to follow up with those customers, or to find those customers easily.
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That sounds like it would work...but I dont have PP3 since I'm in Canada. :( We still have the OLD PP!

I like the simplicity of a little notebook. I'll have to try that.
 
I have never uploaded a file so I hope this works. I use this tracking sheet to keep track and then just file the sheet once it is full. Hope this helps
 

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PamperedK said:
That sounds like it would work...but I dont have PP3 since I'm in Canada. :( We still have the OLD PP!

I like the simplicity of a little notebook. I'll have to try that.
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Serious???? :eek: :eek: :eek:WOW!!! I wonder why!

Sandi
 

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