No local address, no prepaid label
Amazon generates return labels through carriers inside each country. If your return address sits outside it, there is no label for Amazon to issue. Everything else hangs off that one setting.
In the country you sell in, one per marketplace, set up in a day. Without it Amazon issues no prepaid label - and without that label, no return closes on its own.
Amazon has built an automated process for returns. The way into it is a return address in the country you sell in. Without one you are not moving through that process more slowly - you are outside it.
Amazon generates return labels through carriers inside each country. If your return address sits outside it, there is no label for Amazon to issue. Everything else hangs off that one setting.
Refund at First Scan applies only to returns sent on Amazon's own prepaid label. Self-shipped returns are excluded. Instead of closing at the first carrier scan, the return stays open until the parcel reaches you.
Without a prepaid label, the buyer gets one they have to pay for themselves. They queue at the post office, pay, and then claim the money back from you. Every return turns into a case someone works by hand.
For items under 25 euros, Amazon has required a return address in the country of sale since October 2021, one per marketplace. Without it, Amazon issues a returnless refund on its own. The goods stay with the buyer.
Set up your merchant account and confirm the address of your destination warehouse.
As your default return address, one per marketplace. Amazon generates the prepaid labels from it after that.
Order and return data flow in automatically.
National labels, local drop-off, parcels reach the warehouse in 1-3 days.
The warehouse inspects and grades every item and the refund triggers automatically. Every return and every item stays traceable in the merchant portal.
Returns ship to your destination country in consolidated batches. Items can be liquidated or disposed of locally where it makes sense (damage or economics).
Your customers return through the carriers they already know... and the ones marketplaces actually allow. We negotiate volume rates with each local hero, so returns clear faster and cost far less than booking a cross-border carrier yourself.
We pool returns across many sellers and bargain with each local carrier. That saves up to 50 percent against the rates you would get alone.
Marketplaces define which carriers are allowed for returns. The warehouse uses exactly those, so every return stays compliant.
Amazon only refunds at first scan on its own prepaid label with a supported carrier. We give you that exact setup, out of the box.
The basis is two fixed fees plus a per-parcel rate that depends on country and volume. Further services such as grading and disposal are agreed with you upfront. You know every line item before you start. No multi-year contracts.
Billed once when your account is set up - regardless of how many countries you start in.
One local return address, for every marketplace you sell on.
Depends on country and monthly volume - and on the carrier rates we negotiate for you.
Get your rateAmazon's A-to-z Guarantee applies when, after a return request, you do not provide a return address in the buyer's country, a prepaid international label, or a full refund without return within 48 hours. A local address on file satisfies that condition permanently - you no longer decide case by case within two days.
No. Amazon looks at the return address on file for each marketplace, not at where your business is registered. A seller in Poland selling on Amazon.de needs the same setup as a seller in Germany.
No. Amazon requires a default return address per marketplace. If you sell on Amazon.de and Amazon.fr, you need two.
It does meet Amazon's requirement - and it means paying for every affected return in full without getting the goods back. A local address is the alternative that does not cost you again on every single case.
One line per marketplace: the default return address. No integration, no development work.
In principle yes, but not without talking first. We agree quantities, classification and storage requirements with you up front, and after that you know exactly what is possible. Amazon requires these items to ship individually anyway, and in some cases through specialised carriers.
This page covers seller-fulfilled orders. Get in touch anyway: with FBA, Amazon handles customer returns for you, but returning unsellable stock stays open. We use the same six warehouses for that.
The explicit requirement names items up to 25 euros. Above that there is no rule - but no difference in the process either: without a local address there is no prepaid label, and without a prepaid label no automatic refund.
Tell us how many returns you handle and how you deal with them today. We will show you what a local warehouse saves you - and how fast you can be live.