ZigZag is a managed international returns service to help retailers re-sell stock instead of return stock. In our experience, retailers want sales and cash recovery, not returns! The ZigZag returns web portal can be easily white labelled and integrated into a retailer's own website to enable your customers to print out a simple cost controlled label to send the goods back to a local ZigZag warehouse. Our labels are intelligently produced to help save money on postage but also create sales, so we'll redirect the return to the place where it has the highest propensity to sell. ZigZag operate multiple warehouses worldwide, and can keep return costs low, as we have fixed cost agreements with major international courier partners. Returns are tracked wherever possible, and ZigZag will give visibility on what's coming back and how much it will cost before it has even left the customer. The local ZigZag receiving warehouse then scans and inspects the goods are as described, and on the same day the retailer can send a replacement or a refund, speeding up the process and improving the customer experience. But here's the clever bit... Instead of sending the goods back to the retailer, ZigZag can re-sell the goods and redistribute them locally, saving retailer’s money on the cost of processing returns and reducing your carbon footprint. Working to pre-agreed margins and timelines, ZigZag will list your returned stock until sold, on a revenue share basis. Once the item sells, the retailer will be credited for the sale, turning your returns into cash. If the item is damaged, or doesn't sell, ZigZag can either liquidate locally, destroy, or return via consolidation. If you have a sale or shortage in a local or international market, you can also call on the stock ZigZag are holding and we can fulfil direct to your customer in plain packaging. ZigZag Global - Returns re-sold.
Location: United Kingdom, England, London
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $19M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 2
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Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 07.11.2019 | Series A | $19M | - |
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| 18.07.2025 | Tiktok gives retailers a headache with boom in returns culture | Retailers are facing a conundrum. Their customers are searching for and buying clothes via Tiktok and Instagram, but those same social media customers are increasingly less likely to keep the clothes they buy. A surge in the number of cloth... |
| 09.03.2021 | Returns service ZigZag acquired by Global Blue | ZigZag Global, a returns management platform from the United Kingdom, announced it has been acquired by Global Blue, a tourism shopping tax refund company, headquartered in Switzerland. ZigZag’s solutions will be cross-sold into Global Blue... |
| 08.03.2021 | GLOBAL BLUE GROUP HOLDING AG Global Blue : 8 March 2021 - Global Blue acquires ZigZag Global | ZigZag is a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform that enhances the e-commerce returns experience for consumers and streamlines the returns process for retailers across the globe ZigZag is a fast-growing company and an em... |
| 05.01.2021 | Retailers are coping with a tsunami of post-holiday returns — and these 5 startups are making the process cheaper | Retailers are likely to get flooded with returns. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. As e-commerce has picked up in the past several months, so h... |
| 17.01.2019 | ZigZag Global Raises Multi-Million Pound Growth Funding | ZigZag Global, a London, UK-based provider of a software solution for retailers to optimally manage the return, consolidation and resale of products both domestically and internationally, raised a multi-million pound growth funding. The rou... |
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| - | ZigZag Global wins big – twice | ZigZag Global, the award-winning returns management platform, has been acquired by Global Blue – a leader in Tax-Free Shopping and Added Value Payment Services. The acquisition will enhance ZigZag’s rapid growth by cross-selling its soluti... |
| - | Stitch-up or sew right? In defence of ASOS’ £3.95 return fee | Fashion marketplace ASOS has announced it will begin charging some customers £3.95 to send back items, as part of a new returns policy. The policy is similar to one enacted by fellow click-fashion brand, PrettyLittleThing (PLT) in June, who... |
| - | Global Blue : 8 March 2021 - Global Blue acquires ZigZag Global | ZigZag is a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform that enhances the e-commerce returns experience for consumers and streamlines the returns process for retailers across the globe ZigZag is a fast-growing company and an em... |