Applying a restocking fee for returns

By default, when a customer returns an item a restocking fee is not applied. You can customize WebSphere Commerce to charge customers a restocking fee; the fee can be either a flat rate, or a percentage amount of the order.

Before you begin

Determine how to apply a restocking fee:
  • Flat rate adjustment: com.ibm.commerce.returns.commands.CalculateReturnItemAdjustmentFlatPolicyCmdImpl

    If the flat amount of the restocking fee is greater than the original credit amount of one of the return items, an exception is thrown indicating that the credit amount of a return item cannot be negative.

  • Percentage adjustment: com.ibm.commerce.returns.commands.CalculateReturnItemAdjustmentPercentagePolicyCmdImpl

Procedure

  1. Add a ReturnCharge policy, by running the following SQL statements:
    insert into policy (policy_id,policyname,policyType_id,storeent_id,properties) values (policy_id,'RestockingFee','ReturnCharge',store_id,properties);
insert into termcond (termcond_id,tcsubtype_id,trading_id,sequence) values (termcond_id,'ReturnTCReturnCharge',trading_id,0);
insert into policytc values(termcond_id,policy_id,0);
    Where:
    store_id
    The store ID of the store.
    trading_id
    The trading item ID for the order item in the return merchandise authorization (RMA).
    properties
    The properties specified in the policy. For example:
    days_1=30&flat_1=CAD-5.00&flat_1=USD-3.00&days_2=90&flat_2=CAD-10&default=CAD-20
  2. Register the policy command in the CMDREG table. 
    insert into cmdreg values(0,'com.ibm.commerce.returns.commands.CalculateReturnItemAdjustmentPolicyCmd',null,implementation_name',null,null,'local',null);
	implementation_name is the name (including package name) of the selected policy command.
    Where:
    implementation_name
    The full name, including the package name, of the selected policy command:
    • com.ibm.commerce.returns.commands.CalculateReturnItemAdjustmentFlatPolicyCmdImpl
    • com.ibm.commerce.returns.commands.CalculateReturnItemAdjustmentPercentagePolicyCmdImpl

What to do next

Deploy the changes to the production server.