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For multi-channel ecommerce

Multi-channel ecommerce leaks profit and loyal customers.

Shipherd recovers what marketplaces and carriers owe you, and resolves the tickets your team can't get to. Finance, logistics and support in one platform.

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What could you recover?

Our annual revenue is

£15,000£30,000 a year

Rough annual estimate across marketplace, carrier and invoice recovery, on a typical channel mix.

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Finance

Marketplace claim

Refund issued, item never came back+£248.00
Reimbursement never arrived+£412.75
Claim filed. Money owed back to you.+£660.75
Support

Late delivery ticket

Order found, carrier checked
Delay confirmed against promised date
Answered and closed, no agent needed.6 sec
Finance

Carrier claim

Guaranteed service, delivered late+£18.40
Parcel damaged in transit+£37.20
Claim filed with the carrier.+£55.60
Support

Damage claim

Packaging photos and video verified
Shipping label matched to the order
Damage matches what was reported
Genuine claim. Safe to refund.Verified
Finance

Carrier invoice

Wrong zone applied, 41 parcels+£168.10
Fuel surcharge billed twice+£211.85
Credit requested from the carrier.+£379.95
Logistics

Carrier performance

12 deliveries missed the agreed window
Scan data attached as evidence
12 breaches ready to claim.12
Logistics

Return driver

One product driving a third of returns
Listing photo does not match the item
Fix the listing, keep the margin.31%

Your operation is complex. That complexity costs you money.

Fulfilment runs on disconnected, manual, policy-driven systems. Finding the leaks and recovering them takes time and expertise your team doesn't have. Shipherd does it for you, across three areas.

Finance

Recover what you're owed

Marketplaces and carriers owe you money for their mistakes. Most of it slips through unclaimed because nobody has time to find it, file it and chase it.

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Recovery ledger● Live
Refund issued, item never returned£248.00
FBA inventory lost, not credited£91.40
Parcelforce 24 delivered late£18.60
Invoice: oversize fee misapplied£63.25
Filed this week£421.25
Logistics

Hold your carriers to account

Your contracts set limits on delays, loss and damage. Performance against them is a black box. Shipherd measures every carrier and gives you the evidence to renegotiate.

View Logistics overview →
Carrier scorecard● Live
1DPD — on-time vs contracted96.1%
2Parcelforce — on-time vs contracted94.2%
3Evri — below agreed threshold88.7%
4Returns clustered: one listing, 31%root cause
Claimable breaches142
Customer experience

Resolve more, retain better

Shipherd pulls context from carriers, WMS, OMS and your catalogue on every ticket. Routine ones never reach a human, and damage claims arrive with verified evidence already assessed.

View Customer experience overview →
shipherd● Live

Autonomous resolution

Proactive delay alert — order overdue

Emma Hargreaves · #75299

  • Order #BL-20917 monitored, overdue by 1 day
  • Live carrier data pulled — Leeds depot, 7:14 PM
  • Delay confirmed vs promised date
  • Outbound email sent to customer
  • Ticket created and logged
Resolved in 6 secondsNo agent action required
Across all three

One customer. One signal. Every module feeding it.

Refund abuse is invisible on any single ticket and obvious across several. Every module Shipherd runs produces a legitimacy signal, and they accumulate into one profile your agents can see.

A damage claim where the captured evidence didn't hold up. A refund where the item never came back. A not-received claim where the carrier scan says delivered. Individually, each is a shrug. Together, they're a pattern.

A signal for your agents, not an automatic decision. What you do with it stays your policy.

Customer profile#48120
CXDamage evidence failed verification
LogisticsRefund issued, item never returned
FinanceNot received, tracking shows delivered
CXEvidence request unfulfilled
Claim legitimacyLow
Proof

We measured it on live accounts.

Four places money leaves a fulfilment operation, and what each one is worth. Your channel mix, carrier mix and ticket volume decide where most of yours sits.

2.0%of seller-fulfilled revenue
Finance

Marketplace reimbursements

Seller-fulfilled refunds where the item never came back, and not-received claims contradicted by carrier tracking.

Measured result 395 eligible orders worth £15,967 identified in a single month at a live account. 76% of claimed value granted.How this was measured →

6%of shipments
Finance

Carrier claims

Guaranteed services that missed their window, plus loss and damage against contracted service levels.

Measured result 6% of shipments claimable at a live account, worth £120,000 a year on £2M of carrier spend.How this was measured →

2–6%of carrier spend
Finance

Invoice reconciliation

Base rates, fuel surcharges, zone and dimension errors against the rate card you actually signed.

Industry benchmark Live reconciliation running now; our own figure follows once a full cycle completes.How this was measured →

55%of the inbox
Customer experience

Support automation

Tickets resolved without an agent opening them. Handling time falls from 4–7 minutes to under 30 seconds.

Measured result Over 55% of a live inbox handled automatically within three months, and still climbing. On 6,000 tickets a month that is 3,300 agent hours a year.How this was measured →

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Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to common questions from ecommerce operators evaluating cost recovery and support automation.

What does Shipherd do?

Shipherd recovers costs that leak out of ecommerce fulfilment operations and resolves customer support tickets. It works across three areas: finance (marketplace and carrier claims, invoice reconciliation), logistics (carrier performance and returns intelligence), and customer experience (ticket resolution, delay prediction, damage and fraud review).

How much Amazon revenue goes unreimbursed?

Up to 4% of Amazon revenue typically sits in eligible reimbursements that are never claimed. The gap comes from refunds issued where the item was never returned, lost or damaged inventory that was never credited, and refund fraud where tracking shows delivery but the customer claims non-receipt. All three are claimable, and all three have to be found and filed.

Can you claim compensation when a guaranteed delivery is late?

Yes. Guaranteed services such as Parcelforce Express 24 carry a delivery guarantee, and the carrier owes compensation when the parcel arrives late. Most sellers never claim it because checking every parcel against each carrier's terms is manual work nobody has time for.

How accurate are carrier invoices?

Carrier invoices typically show a 2% to 6% discrepancy between what you are billed and what you actually owe under your contracted rate card. Errors come from base rates, fuel surcharges and oversize fees applied on legacy billing systems.

Does Shipherd replace my helpdesk?

No. Shipherd works inside your existing helpdesk, including Zendesk and eDesk. It gathers order, tracking, warehouse, catalogue and policy context automatically on every ticket, then either resolves the ticket autonomously, hands your agent a pre-investigated draft, or routes it to the right team with the evidence attached.

Can we control what gets automated?

Yes. Shipherd classifies every ticket by intent, sentiment, priority and complexity. Low-complexity, high-confidence cases resolve autonomously; anything requiring judgement is drafted for an agent or escalated with a briefing note rather than answered automatically. You set where the line sits.

How do you verify a damage claim is genuine?

Evidence is captured by the customer at the moment the claim is raised, rather than supplied later from their camera roll. Shipherd verifies the evidence is authentic and usable, then assesses whether the damage shown supports what was reported. Claims that fail verification are flagged for your agent.

What does Shipherd cost?

There is no cost to start. Cost recovery is charged on a no-recovery-no-fee basis, so you only pay once money is returned to your account. Customer experience is charged through a platform fee plus a per-resolution fee.

How long does Shipherd take to set up?

Days, not months. Shipherd connects to your existing helpdesk, carriers and marketplace accounts rather than replacing them, so there is no migration and no implementation project.