Monthly cash drain
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Your refund rate in euros, not percentages.
A 6% refund rate sounds manageable. But each refund costs you the COGS you already spent, the outbound shipping you already paid, and the payment fee Stripe doesn't give back — on top of returning the revenue. This tool converts that percentage into a monthly cash number.
Estimates only. Assumes uniform AOV and cost structure across refunded orders.
Volume
Per-order costs
Refund rate
Monthly cash drain
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Annual drain
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Orders refunded per month
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True cost per refund
| COGS lost | - |
| Outbound shipping lost | - |
| Payment fee (unrecovered) | - |
| Return shipping | - |
| Total per refund | - |
Verdict
-What if refund rate drops to…