Make product recalls painless for your customers and positive for your brand.

“If product recalls are handled properly, a company not only can keep damage to a minimum but also may find opportunities to reap unexpected benefits.” Harvard Business Review.

In the UK in 2023 there were over 640 product safety recalls by the government, and over 140 food recall alerts in 2022/2023 by the Food Standards Agency amounting to potentially hundreds of thousands of inconvenienced consumers. The most standard recall response is for customers to return the product to the store putting the onus onto the consumer and creating additional pressure on retail staff who must check proof of purchase and issue a refund or exchange.

Other brands may have a knee-jerk reaction to product recalls that are not the best solution for their business or customers. It is not unheard of for a brand to hire a warehouse, fill it with stock, and then organise temporary staff to mail out replacement products to customers – a solution that is complicated, expensive, and slow.

Instead, they should turn a crisis into an opportunity to create happy, satisfied customers by furnishing customer care teams with effective tools for proactive and rapid reimbursement. savi Carelink offers a unique combination of cash transfer and coupon solutions that enable brands and retailers to refund or reimburse in an instant.

Read our Carelink Case Study for Lipton’s Tea.

The ideal solution for managing product recall resolution.

Responsive – A branded Carelink portal can be set up in response to a product recall situation within days and a Customer Service agent can issue refunds or offer replacement coupons in minutes.

Accessible – Carelink is a live portal that Customer Service agents can log-in to anywhere in the world

Flexible – Depending on the value of the item being recalled the Customer Service agent can issue cash or PayPal refunds in any currency or reimburse customers with unique links to vouchers and coupons via Carelink.

International – Carelink localises to the country selected by the Customer Service agent and will translate customer links and make refunds in the appropriate currency.

Customer first – Carelink works side-by-side or can be integrated with existing brand CRM tools so that the status of a customer claim can be monitored accurately, it meets customers’ needs with flexible reimbursement methods, and can also wrap around a family of brands together on one platform.

A key benefit of savi’s solution is that instead of only offering cash refunds, brands can reimburse customers for recalled products using generous vouchers or coupons, leaving them feeling positive towards the brand and likely to redeem their coupons or vouchers for the same brand or product instead of spending their refund on another.