Nathan James review for AfterShip Returns & Exchanges

For starters, their chat-based help is excellent and quick to help at all hours of the day, 7 days a week. I used their chat a bunch to get setup and they're very good. We are pretty high volume PLUS account and order volumes are growing. We wanted to enable a self-service Returns Center and choose their Premium service because it is marketed as including auto-refunds (the key element we were looking for). Not until you sign up and go through implementation do you realize that you cannot have auto-refunds unless you also pay for their Order Tracking app. I was upset about their marketing tactics because Returns Center info page says nothing about needing Order Tracking. Due to our order volume, however, we were going to need an even pricier version of this app just to get the auto-refund feature. I spoke with one of their sales reps, explained the situation, he empathized and agreed and came back with a very helpful discount. We also selected Return Center PREMIUM because it offers self-service return label generation and printing. But, when that part was being configured, again we learned we needed another app (postmen) in order to print return labels using our own FedEx account. It gets 5 stars for functionality when you take into account all the apps you need to achieve your goals and their customer service via chat is top notch. However, I take away 1-star because their pricing and marketing of features is borderline bait-and-switch and not transparent.