Enable Warranty Claim Notifications
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AfterShip Returns email notifications are designed to keep your customers informed and communicate important information at every stage of the warranty claim resolution process. AfterShip Returns lets you trigger automated email notifications for multiple scenarios. This tutorial will give you a tour of enabling automated warranty claim notifications from the AfterShip Returns admin.
📢What you’ll learn
In this tutorial, we will show you:
Email notifications set up
Warranty claim statuses
Warranty emails customization
Merge tags
Adjust sender name and email address
All email notifications will be enabled by default. If you’d like to disable any of them, follow the steps below.
Go to Warranty under Add-ons in the AfterShip Returns admin.
Click Notifications
AfterShip Returns offers email notifications for 6 key warranty claim statuses
Select the email template you would like to disable
Move the toggle to the right to enable and to the left to disable
As mentioned, you can trigger email notifications for 6 key return statuses to customers to convey important information throughout the warranty claim resolution process.
Here’s the list of statues and what each status means.
Once email notifications are enabled, you can edit the notification template that will be emailed to your customers. To customize, follow the steps below
Select the template and click the Edit button displayed alongside the notification toggle button
You will land on the notification editor page
Use the HTML theme template to customize your email notifications
Under an HTML theme template, you can edit the email subject and email body
Use merge tags in relevant places to auto-populate required customer and order information from our database according to the claim request
Once edits are made, select Save
Send a test email to confirm if everything looks good. Choose a recipient to send a test email to
Preview the final version of the email on both desktop and mobile
Apart from this list of supported merge tags , there are for merge tags specifically supported for warranty claim requests which you can place in the claim notifications to auto-populate additional information in the notification sent to the customers.
By default, notification emails are sent by AfterShip Returns' standard support email address, [email protected]. If you’d like to use your domain to send email notifications, the email sender name and reply-to address can be changed at any time:
Go to the Sender info section in warranty Notifications
Click the Edit button given alongside the sender name and email address
Edit the desired fields
a. Name​​: This name will be displayed on warranty return emails
b.​​ Email​​: This will be shown in your customer-facing sections whenever we show a support email link
c. Save​​ the changes
To improve your delivery rate, verify your email address​​
Click Verify or add sender emails​​ on the​​ Edit sender info popup​​
You will be taken to the Sender emails section in the ​​organization settings
Click Add email​​ and input the email address you want to send your newsletters and email notifications from
Add the confirmation code sent to your email address and click Add​​
Verify your domain​​ by creating 3 CNAME records with the mentioned values at your domain's DNS settings to allow AfterShip Returns to send emails on your behalf
Once entries are created at your domain's DNS settings, click Verify​​
For any further questions or help, please contact our chat support team
Overview
AfterShip Returns email notifications are designed to keep your customers informed and communicate important information at every stage of the warranty claim resolution process. AfterShip Returns lets you trigger automated email notifications for multiple scenarios. This tutorial will give you a tour of enabling automated warranty claim notifications from the AfterShip Returns admin.
📢What you’ll learn
In this tutorial, we will show you:
Email notifications set up
Warranty claim statuses
Warranty emails customization
Merge tags
Adjust sender name and email address
Email notifications set up
All email notifications will be enabled by default. If you’d like to disable any of them, follow the steps below.
Go to Warranty under Add-ons in the AfterShip Returns admin.
Click Notifications
AfterShip Returns offers email notifications for 6 key warranty claim statuses
Select the email template you would like to disable
Move the toggle to the right to enable and to the left to disable
Warranty claim statuses
As mentioned, you can trigger email notifications for 6 key return statuses to customers to convey important information throughout the warranty claim resolution process.
Here’s the list of statues and what each status means.
| Status | Definition |
|---|---|
| Warranty claim received | When a warranty claim is submitted successfully by a customer via the warranty page |
| Warranty claim approved | When the merchant approves a warranty claim |
| Warranty claim rejected | When the merchant rejects a warranty claim |
| Warranty claim in progress | When merchant starts to process (repair or replace) the item customers return for warranty |
| Warranty claim resolved | When a warranty claim is marked as resolved by the merchant |
| Warranty claim canceled | When the merchant cancels a warranty claim |
Warranty emails customization
Once email notifications are enabled, you can edit the notification template that will be emailed to your customers. To customize, follow the steps below
Select the template and click the Edit button displayed alongside the notification toggle button
You will land on the notification editor page
Use the HTML theme template to customize your email notifications
Under an HTML theme template, you can edit the email subject and email body
Use merge tags in relevant places to auto-populate required customer and order information from our database according to the claim request
Once edits are made, select Save
Send a test email to confirm if everything looks good. Choose a recipient to send a test email to
Preview the final version of the email on both desktop and mobile
Merge tags (custom variable)
Apart from this list of supported merge tags , there are for merge tags specifically supported for warranty claim requests which you can place in the claim notifications to auto-populate additional information in the notification sent to the customers.
| Merge tag | Definition |
|---|---|
| RMA_DETAILS | The merge tags auto-populate the details of the warranty claim request including the order information, warranty item, issue details, and customer address |
| RESOLUTION_SUMMARY | The merge tag auto-populate the resolution type and details selected by the customer while submitting the claim |
| SHIPMENT_DETAILS | The merge tag auto-populates the carrier name and tracking number of the item being sent back for repair/replacement |
| CANCEL_REASON | The merge tag auto-populates the reason of cancelling the warranty claim request |
Adjust sender name and email address
By default, notification emails are sent by AfterShip Returns' standard support email address, [email protected]. If you’d like to use your domain to send email notifications, the email sender name and reply-to address can be changed at any time:
Go to the Sender info section in warranty Notifications
Click the Edit button given alongside the sender name and email address
Edit the desired fields
a. Name​​: This name will be displayed on warranty return emails
b.​​ Email​​: This will be shown in your customer-facing sections whenever we show a support email link
c. Save​​ the changes
To improve your delivery rate, verify your email address​​
Click Verify or add sender emails​​ on the​​ Edit sender info popup​​
You will be taken to the Sender emails section in the ​​organization settings
Click Add email​​ and input the email address you want to send your newsletters and email notifications from
Add the confirmation code sent to your email address and click Add​​
Verify your domain​​ by creating 3 CNAME records with the mentioned values at your domain's DNS settings to allow AfterShip Returns to send emails on your behalf
Once entries are created at your domain's DNS settings, click Verify​​
For any further questions or help, please contact our chat support team
Updated on: 05/12/2023
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