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Every third COD order can be a bet you lose.

In COD markets, failed and returned deliveries run 15–30% of orders — three to five times the prepaid rate. Each one costs ₹150–300 in two-way shipping before you count the tied-up stock. It is the single biggest leak in how most of the world sells, and most stores only find it on the bank statement.

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RTO Shield, this morningSample data
#RS-10482COD · ₹1,258

High — Prepaid nudge sent

#RS-10469COD · ₹640

Low — Shipped normally

#RS-10455COD · ₹2,140

Very high — Confirm-order alert sent to you

The leak most stores only find on the bank statement.

A COD order isn’t a sale until it’s paid for. Every third one, in a COD-heavy market, is a bet, and the bet costs money whichever way it goes.

COD orders that fail or come back15–30%
Lost in two-way shipping, per order₹150–300
Lost to COD failure & RTO in India, every yearup to ₹8,000cr
A prepaid orderno return leg
A failed COD order3–5× the cost

Two-way shipping, restocking, and the working capital tied up in transit — for stock that never actually sold.

And it isn’t only an India problem. COD still runs 30–80% of orders across South Asia, the Gulf and Latin America, and RTO Shield scores every COD order, wherever you sell.

Two signals. One honest score.

History alone tells you about a repeat customer. Pincode alone tells you about an address. RTO Shield reads both, and it refuses to guess on a signal it doesn’t have yet.

Order #RS-10528
COD · ₹1,890Sample data
Customer history

First order here — no track record yet

Contributes almost nothing, since there’s nothing to score

Pincode area-risk
unlocked · 5 orders

5 resolved orders here — 2 came back

Contributes 0 until 3 resolved orders, so a quiet address is never punished on a hunch

0
Combined scoreHigh — nudge prepaidhistory: thin · pincode: elevated
Grounded on
customer’s first order — no history to score5 resolved orders to this pincode, 2 were RTOarea-risk index: unlocked at 3 resolved orders
Prepaid nudge sent: a personalised PREPAID- coupon, capped by the offer engine

Three bands. Never a blind block.

The score routes the order into one of three lanes. It never blocks a sale on a guess, and only one of them ever needs you.

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It only claims what it actually saved.

An RTO is marked “prevented” only when a nudged COD order genuinely converts to prepaid and captures — grounded attribution, with the evidence attached. No credit for orders that would have shipped fine anyway.

NUDGED ORDERS · 7 DAYSA representative week
High & very-high orders nudged0
Converted to prepaid & captured0
Counted as “RTO prevented”0
Stayed COD, shipped normally — not counted0

Idempotent per order — a nudge is never metered as “prevented” twice, and an order that stayed COD is never counted at all.

Every rule here is code, not a setting.

RTO Shield can nudge and flag — it can never cancel a sale, invent a discount, or hide its reasoning. None of that is configurable.

Off by default — you turn it on when you’re ready.
It never cancels an order on its own; very-high risk only flags for your confirmation.
Its coupons are capped by the offer engine (discount ceiling, CLV floor, Champions excluded).
Every score shows the evidence behind it: history and pincode, not a black box.
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Stop finding it on the bank statement.

RTO Shield ships on day one, in every tier — no add-on, no separate bill. Off until you turn it on.

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