The resale engine for Shopify

Your returns are a
revenue stream.

ReDrop lists your returns for resale on your own store — sold in one cart with new items, on your own warehouse or 3PL. You keep control of the physical side, or upgrade to fully managed and we grade, store & ship it for you.

  • Free lifetime access
  • First 30 merchants only
  • No credit card
yourbrand.com/trail-jacket
ReDrop available
Trail Jacket — Olive ★★★★★ · 214 reviews $180
Condition
$12,480 recovered this month
Native to the stack you already run
The problem

Returns quietly drain your margin

For most brands a return is pure loss — you refund the customer, eat the shipping, and the item sits in a pile or goes to landfill. The value is still in the product. Nobody’s recovering it.

16–30%

of online orders come back. Apparel and footwear sit at the top of that range.

$25–40

to process a single return by hand — inspect, restock or write off, refund.

Billions

of pounds of returned goods are landfilled every year instead of resold.

Weeks

for returns to trickle in — long after the sale, with no system tracking the value.

Recovering that value normally means new software and a warehouse, grading staff, and a second checkout. ReDrop is the software to run it yourself — and can run the warehouse too, when you want.

Two ways to run it

Run resale yourself.
Or hand us the warehouse.

ReDrop is software first: install it and run resale on your own store and logistics. You (or your 3PL) grade, store, and ship — ReDrop does the listings, unified cart, offer engine, and analytics.

Don’t want to touch the physical side? Upgrade to fully managed and ReDrop’s warehouse receives, grades, stores, and ships it all for you.

Listings & unified cartNew + resale in one checkout on your store
ReDrop
Offer engine & analyticsDeflect returns; track every recovered dollar
ReDrop
Grading appYour team grades in it — or ReDrop’s does
ReDrop app
Receiving & storageHold returned stock ready to resell
You · or managed
Pick, pack & shipFulfil resale orders with tracking
You · or managed
Fully managed?ReDrop receives, grades, stores & ships
Add-on
How it works

From returned item to resale sale

Five steps — you run the physical ones on your own logistics, or upgrade to fully managed and we do them.

01

A return comes back

It arrives at your warehouse or 3PL. Managed: route it to the ReDrop warehouse instead.

02

Grade it in the app

Your team scans, photographs & grades it in the ReDrop app. Brand-new restocks; the rest get a resale SKU. Managed: we grade it.

03

It lists on your store

A hidden, app-managed resale variant appears on the matching product page — never in search or collections.

04

Customer buys it

Shoppers add new and pre-loved to one cart and check out once, on your store, under your brand.

05

Ship it

It ships from your own warehouse or 3PL, tracking on the order. Managed: we pick, pack & ship it.

The difference

One cart. New and resale, together.

Other resale apps bolt a separate storefront and a second checkout onto your brand. ReDrop doesn’t. Pre-loved items live in your own catalog and check out in your own cart — so a customer can buy a new jacket and a graded one in a single order.

Your catalog stays clean: resale products are unlisted, machine-managed, and never leak into search, collections, the Shop app, or marketplaces.

Other resale apps
  • Separate storefront & second checkout
  • Customer leaves your brand
  • Two orders, two shipments to manage
  • Resale clutters your catalog & SEO
With ReDrop
  • New + resale in one native cart
  • Your checkout, your customer, your brand
  • Fulfil on your own logistics — or ours
  • Resale stays hidden & out of search
Unified checkout · theme app block

No code. Just drop in the block.

The “ReDrop Resale” app block adds a “ReDrop — from $X” option beside your buy button, opens a condition picker, and puts the item straight into your native Shopify cart — styled to match your theme in a few clicks. Shoppers check out once with Shop Pay, and you fulfil it like any order (or we do, on managed).

  • Native Shopify checkout & Shop Pay — no redirects, no second cart
  • Fully styleable: heading, badge, labels, colours, radius, sold-out behavior
  • Auto-resolves the right resale variant by metafield, with savings shown vs. new
Theme · product page
Choose your conditionPre-loved Trail Jacket · saves up to 67%

Every ReDrop purchase keeps an item in use.

Grading app

Grade returns right in the app

Your warehouse team scans, photographs, and grades each return in the ReDrop app — it mints a deterministic resale SKU and lists the item. Brand-new restocks; resellable items get graded; the rest are logged for disposal. Prefer not to touch it? On fully managed, ReDrop’s team grades every item for you.

  • Define your own grade tiers — rename, add, or remove (Like New / Good / Fair…)
  • Deterministic SKUs: SKU-RESALE-LN, namespaced to your brand
  • Condition photos captured and attached to every item
  • Optional Slack ping the moment an item is graded
ReDrop Warehouse · Intake
Order #10428TRAIL-JKT-OLV-M
Condition photo captured

Grade this item

Resale SKU generatedTRAIL-JKT-OLV-M-RESALE-LN
Omnichannel · Shopify POS

Returns come back in store, too — sell them anywhere

ReDrop is fully integrated with Shopify POS. When a customer returns an item at the register, your associate grades it on the spot right inside POS — no separate app, no shipping it off first. The listing goes live instantly, sellable online and in any of your stores.

  • Receive, grade & relist a return from the POS register in seconds
  • One resale listing — sellable online or walk-in, at any location
  • Same grading standards as your online returns, kept consistent
  • Works on self-serve or fully managed — no extra hardware
Shopify POS · Return
Trail Jacket — Olive TRAIL-JKT-OLV-M · returned in store

Grade & relist

Listed — sellable online & in any storeTRAIL-JKT-OLV-M-RESALE-LN
Automatic listings

Resale products that never clutter your store

The moment an item is graded, ReDrop creates a hidden, purchasable product on your store — titled, tagged resale, and priced by condition. It’s published to your Online Store only, so it shows up exactly where you want it and nowhere you don’t.

  • Unlisted & machine-managed — invisible in search, collections, and the Shop app
  • Condition becomes a variant; complex products fall back to per-variant listings
  • COGS & retail captured at listing time for true resale-margin reporting
Shopify admin · Products
Resale productConditionStatus
Trail Jacket (RESALE)Like NewListed
Trail Jacket (RESALE)GoodListed
Canvas Tote (RESALE)FairSold
Runner Cap (RESALE)Like NewReserved
Wool BeanieBrand NewRestocked

Hidden from storefront browse · Online Store channel only

Instant-refund offer engine

Deflect returns before they ship

When a shopper starts a return, ReDrop can offer an instant alternative right in their account — keep the item for cash back, or take boosted store credit. You save the shipping and restocking, they get a faster resolution, and the sale stays yours.

  • Two paths: cashback to original payment, or store credit with a boost multiplier
  • Smart targeting — by return reason, new vs. returning customer, LTV, and rate limits
  • Per-product & per-collection rules, exclusions, and A/B tests that auto-promote the winner
Before you return it…Order #10428 · Trail Jacket
Instant
Keep it & get $40 backCash to your original payment — today.
+25% boost
$50 in store creditBoosted credit to spend whenever.
No thanks, return it →
Fulfillment & inventory

Ships from your logistics — or ours

On self-serve, resale ships from your own warehouse or 3PL, just like any order — ReDrop creates the listing and keeps stock in sync. Upgrade to fully managed and resale is held and shipped from the ReDrop warehouse, with split fulfillment and tracking synced back to the order.

  • Self-serve: resale stays at your location and ships on your own rates
  • Managed: one order, split fulfillment — resale ships from us, new from you
  • Live tracking written back to Shopify; inventory kept in sync automatically
  • Use your own 3PL/WMS, or the ReDrop warehouse network
Order placed1 new · 1 resale
Your warehouseNew item → you
ReDrop warehouseResale item → us
Shipped & trackedTracking synced to order
Embedded analytics

See exactly what you’re recovering

An embedded dashboard — right inside Shopify admin — tracks recovered revenue, refunds avoided, resale margin, and a six-month trend, plus a funnel from received to sold. Every lifecycle moment is logged, so the value ReDrop creates is never a guess.

  • Recovered revenue, refunds deflected, items resold — monthly and lifetime
  • Intake → graded → listed → sold funnel, with top resale SKUs and days-to-sell
  • Month-to-date usage & commission preview, billed through Shopify
Shopify admin · ReDrop · Analytics
Recovered revenue$48,920▲ 18%
Refunds avoided$21,340▲ 9%
Items resold612▲ 24%
Net benefit · last 6 months$70,260
JanFebMarAprMayJun
1,604Received
1,180Graded
918Listed
612Sold
ROI calculator

See what your returns are worth

Drag the sliders to your numbers — this is the resale revenue trapped in the used returns you currently write off, not the ones you already resell as new.

3,000
$120
20%

Drag the sliders to match your store.

Estimated annual resale revenue ReDrop recovers $181,440 from used returns you’d otherwise write off
Returns processed / year7,200
Used returns we resell / year2,520
Recovered per month$15,120

Assumes ~35% of returns come back used or opened and can’t be resold as new — the items you’d otherwise write off — and that ReDrop recovers ~60% of their retail value through resale. Returns you restock and sell as new yourself are not counted. Illustrative, not a guarantee; actual results vary by grade mix, sell-through, pricing, and category, and exclude the extra revenue from deflected refunds.

70%

of returns resold instead of written off

0 cart

new & used checkout, one order

0 ops

warehouses you have to run

0%

on your storefront & brand

Everything included

A complete returns-to-resale system

Everything you need to run resale yourself — plus an optional warehouse when you’d rather not.

Unified checkout

New + pre-loved in one native cart with Shop Pay, on your own store.

Managed warehouse · optional

Upgrade and we receive, grade, photograph, store, and ship — you never touch an item.

Custom grading

Define your own condition tiers with deterministic, brand-namespaced resale SKUs.

Auto listings

Hidden, condition-priced variants created the instant an item is graded.

Offer engine

Instant cashback or boosted store credit to deflect returns and keep the sale.

A/B testing

Test offer economics with weighted variants that auto-promote the winner.

Shipping profiles

A dedicated resale delivery profile — flat or per-zone rates, optional free thresholds.

Inventory sync

Warehouse on-hand reconciled to your Shopify resale location on a schedule.

Analytics

Recovered revenue, refunds avoided, funnels and trends — embedded in admin.

Slack alerts

Optional notifications so your team sees every intake and grade in real time.

One-click install

Shopify OAuth, embedded admin, and theme blocks. No engineering required.

BYO 3PL

Use the ReDrop network or connect your own warehouse via the provider interface.

Shopify POS

Grade & relist a return at the register — sellable online or in any store.

Pricing

Start self-serve. Add the warehouse when you want.

Founding merchants who join early access get lifetime access — the plans below are what everyone pays at launch. A simple monthly plan plus a commission on resale sales, charged only when items ship. Self-serve has no warehousing fees; fully managed adds the warehouse.

Fully Managed

We grade, store & ship for you

$199/mo
  • 6% resale commission
  • Everything in Self-Serve
  • We receive, grade, photograph & store
  • Pick, pack & ship from our warehouse
+ 3PL: from $2.50/item in · storage · pick & pack
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Enterprise

High volume & custom needs

Custom
  • Volume commission
  • Everything in Fully Managed
  • Self-serve, managed, or hybrid
  • Priority support & SLAs
Dedicated onboarding & account team
Talk to us

Commission is charged when items ship, via Shopify billing. Self-Serve has no warehousing fees — you fulfil resale yourself. On Fully Managed, warehousing & fulfillment are invoiced by ReDrop at transparent per-item / per-unit / per-order rates, disclosed in your subscription terms.

FAQ

Everything you’re wondering

Do I run resale myself, or does ReDrop?

Your call. On Self-Serve, you (or your existing 3PL) grade, store, and ship returns using the ReDrop app, while ReDrop handles the software — listings, unified cart, offer engine, and analytics. Prefer hands-off? Fully Managed adds our warehouse: we receive, grade, photograph, store, and ship for you, so you never touch an item.

Will resale products clutter my catalog or hurt my SEO?

No. Resale products are created as hidden, machine-managed listings published to your Online Store channel only. They never appear in search, collections, the Shop app, or marketplaces — they only surface as a “buy it pre-loved” option on the matching product page.

Who is the merchant of record?

You are. Resale items check out in your own Shopify cart, under your brand, with your customer relationship intact. ReDrop is the control plane behind the scenes — not a separate storefront.

How does one cart with new and used items actually work?

The “ReDrop Resale” theme app block adds the resale option to your product pages and puts the item in your native cart. On Self-Serve, the resale stock lives at your own location and you fulfil it with the order. On Fully Managed, Shopify routes resale lines to the ReDrop location for split fulfillment — one order, automatic either way.

Do returns that come back in store work too?

Yes — ReDrop is fully integrated with Shopify POS. An associate can receive a return at the register, grade it on the spot, and relist it right there — no separate app, no shipping it to a warehouse first. The listing is created once and is sellable both online and at any of your store locations.

What is the instant-refund offer engine?

When a customer starts a return, ReDrop can offer them an instant alternative — cash back to their original payment, or boosted store credit — so they keep the item and you avoid the shipping and restocking. Targeting, economics, exclusions, and A/B tests are all configurable.

How is shipping handled for resale items?

On Self-Serve, resale items ship on your own store’s rates from your own location — nothing extra to set up. On Fully Managed, ReDrop can add a dedicated resale delivery profile (flat or per-region rates, optional free-shipping threshold) for stock shipping from our warehouse.

What does it cost?

Self-Serve is $49/mo + 8% resale commission with a 14-day free trial and no warehousing fees — you fulfil resale yourself. Fully Managed is $199/mo + 6% commission plus transparent per-item, per-unit, and per-order 3PL rates for the warehouse work. Commission is charged only when items ship. See Pricing.

Where does my inventory live — and could this create sales-tax nexus?

Your choice. On managed plans, returns ship to the ReDrop warehouse and resale stock is held there; because that inventory sits in our state, brands not already over the economic-nexus threshold there should check with a tax advisor (many brands already collect in that state, so there’s often no change). Prefer to avoid it entirely? Self-Serve keeps everything in your own warehouse or 3PL — so ReDrop adds no new physical presence and no new nexus. On Fully Managed we disclose the warehouse location up front. This isn’t tax advice.

What happens to items that don’t sell?

Nothing gets stuck. You set a disposition policy for unsold items — recall them to your own warehouse, route them to liquidation, or donate them — and the dashboard surfaces aging stock and days-to-sell so nothing sits silently. On Self-Serve it’s moot: the inventory is already in your warehouse.

How long does it take to install?

Minutes. Install from Shopify, approve the subscription, and add the “ReDrop Resale” theme app block to your product template — you’re live, no engineering required. On Fully Managed, ReDrop also registers a “ReDrop Returns” fulfillment location for you.

Be one of the first 30.

ReDrop is opening to a small group of founding merchants — free lifetime access, and a direct line to shape the product. Add your email and we’ll be in touch.

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