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How much money is your COD operation losing?

Cash-on-delivery leaks money in ways you don't see on any invoice. Plug in your numbers to estimate your monthly COD leakage — and how much Parcelo can recover.

Estimated monthly COD leakage

Rs 196,000

≈ Rs 2,352,000 a year

RTO double-shipping
Rs 128,000
Manual reconciliation time
Rs 8,000
Unclaimed / overcharged
Rs 60,000

Parcelo automates the reconciliation work, flags every overcharge, and screens high-return customers to cut RTO.

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Plus the exact steps to plug each leak.

How we estimate it

The three COD leaks

Cash-on-delivery in Pakistan loses money in three predictable places. The calculator sizes each one:

1. RTO double-shipping

Every returned COD order costs you the courier fee twice — once to send it, once to get it back — with no sale at the end. At scale this is usually the biggest leak.

2. Manual reconciliation time

Matching a courier settlement sheet to your Shopify orders, ticking off deliveries, and chasing remittances is slow, recurring work. We value the hours your team spends on it.

3. Unclaimed remittance & overcharges

Delivered orders you forget to mark paid, remittances that never arrive, and courier charges higher than agreed — small percentages of a large COD volume add up fast.

Parcelo automates the reconciliation, flags every overcharge, and screens high-return customers before you ship COD again — recovering most of this leakage automatically.

FAQ

Calculator questions

How does the COD leakage calculator work?

It estimates three avoidable costs from your inputs: RTO double-shipping (returned COD orders cost you the courier fee twice, with no revenue), the cost of staff time spent reconciling by hand, and unclaimed remittance or courier overcharges that slip through manual checks. Add them up and you get your estimated monthly COD leakage.

What counts as COD leakage?

COD leakage is money that quietly disappears in a cash-on-delivery operation: returns you pay to ship both ways, courier charges you don't notice, remittances you forget to reconcile, and the hours your team spends matching a courier sheet to Shopify orders.

How does Parcelo reduce this?

Parcelo automates the reconciliation work end to end, flags courier overcharges on every order, and screens high-return (RTO) customers before you ship to them again — so the manual-labour and overcharge leakage largely disappears and returns come down.

Are the numbers exact?

No — it's an estimate to size the problem, based on your inputs and typical Pakistan COD patterns. You can adjust the assumptions (cost of staff time, overcharge rate) to match your store.