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Why LiquiDonate

The Smartest Tool for Unsellable Inventory

Cut costs on returns and storage. Automate compliance. Hit your ESG goals — without adding to your workload.
Trusted by leading retailers to turn excess inventory and returns into cost savings and tax benefits, not landfill waste.

How LiquiDonate Stacks Up

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Donation Disposition

Return-to-Resale 
Support

Retailer-Controlled Inventory Routing

Returns Workflow Automation

Mixed-PO Returns

Bulk Inventory Uploads

Shipping Label Generation

Tax Deduction Reporting

Sustainability Reporting

Events/One-time usage

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Donation Disposition Option

With LiquiDonate, retailers choose which items should be returned to the warehouse and which should be donated. Donation becomes just another smart disposition path inside your returns flow. When selected, we automatically generate shipping labels to the nearest nonprofit that actually needs the item.

We handle the hard stuff:

  • Our Magic Match engine finds the best-fit nonprofit based on item type, location, and real-time need.
  • Retailers save on distance-based shipping (fewer miles = fewer costs).
  • All donation activity is tracked in your dashboard, so your inventory records stay clean and audit-ready.
  • We generate IRS-compliant donation receipts — which may be eligible for a charitable tax deduction.

Returned items typically cost around $12/item to process. With donation, retailers can earn back an average of $0.06/item through tax savings — turning a cost center into a recovery opportunity.
Bonus: Incorporating donations into your returns policy helps stop returns fraud. When customers know an item will be donated (not kept), they’re less likely to abuse your return policy.

LiquiDonate supports donation as a disposition path, with retailer-controlled logic and automated workflows.

Other platforms don’t support donation or make you handle it manually.

Return-to-Resale Support

Resale is supported — because recovering value matters. But it’s not your only option.

LiquiDonate gives you logic-based controls to route returns to resale, donation, or liquidation based on item type, condition, or brand. You set the rules, and we handle the rest.

That way, items with value stay in play, and the rest get routed efficiently without clogging up your warehouse.

LiquiDonate supports resale alongside donation and liquidation — all routed by your rules.

Other platforms support resale, but typically lack fallback logic or donation options.

Retailer-Controlled Inventory Routing

LiquiDonate gives retailers full control over how returns and excess inventory are routed – resale, donation, liquidation, or return to warehouse. Logic can be based on item type, return reason, condition, brand, or anything else that matters to your team.

Other platforms may offer routing, but it’s often rigid, hard-coded, or requires custom development to make changes. With LiquiDonate, you make the call and we handle the routing.

LiquiDonate lets retailers set routing logic by product type, condition, or return reason.

Other platforms may support routing, but often require custom dev or are hard-coded.

Returns Workflow Automation

LiquiDonate automates what happens after a return is initiated– no manual triage or back-and-forth needed. You decide what qualifies for resale, donation, liquidation, or warehouse, and our system executes.

Most platforms only automate resale flows. If an item can’t be resold, it hits a dead end– or piles up. LiquiDonate handles edge cases automatically, reducing backlog and decision fatigue.

LiquiDonate automates resale, donation, liquidation, and warehouse flows.

Other platforms automate resale only– donation and liquidation are manual.

Mixed PO Returns

Retailers using LiquiDonate can upload or process returns across multiple purchase orders in one flow, even when the return includes items from different sources or warehouses.

Most platforms aren’t built for this level of complexity. Multi-PO returns often require workarounds or are unsupported altogether, creating headaches for ops teams.

LiquiDonate supports mixed-PO returns with upload and routing support.

Other platforms often don’t support multi-PO workflows.

Bulk Inventory Uploads

Got hundreds or thousands of SKUs to donate or clear out? No problem. LiquiDonate supports bulk uploads so your team isn’t stuck entering items one by one.

Other platforms aren’t built for bulk– or they require custom API work to process high volumes. LiquiDonate works out-of-the-box at scale.

LiquiDonate supports bulk uploads for donations or dispositions.

Other platforms may require workarounds or manual uploads.

Shipping Label Generation

When donation is selected, LiquiDonate automatically generates shipping labels to the closest nonprofit that can accept the item– no extra steps for your team.

Some platforms support label generation, but not for donations. Others require the retailer or warehouse to coordinate shipping manually.

LiquiDonate generates donation shipping labels based on distance + nonprofit fit.

Other platforms may support labels, but not for donation.

Tax Deduction Reporting

LiquiDonate provides IRS-compliant donation receipts for every eligible donation, with documentation you can hand off directly to your finance team or auditor. That way, your returns can effectively increase your bottom line, not detract from it.

Other platforms either don’t offer tax reporting or expect the retailer to generate and track it manually — increasing risk and workload.

LiquiDonate generates IRS-compliant donation receipts.

Other platforms don’t offer formal donation/tax documentation.

Sustainability Reporting

Track environmental impact like pounds diverted, miles saved, or carbon reductions right from your dashboard. Useful for ESG reporting, internal targets, or supplier scorecards. These reports are known to boost marketing efforts and increase customer loyalty. 

Other platforms may mention sustainability, but few provide measurable, shareable data without extra tooling.

LiquiDonate provides impact reports tied to your inventory and actions.

Other platforms offer limited or no sustainability data.

Event-Driven Returns (Conferences, Earth Week, etc.)

LiquiDonate supports one-time donation events– from office clean-outs to post-conference swag donation. We’ve supported everything from NBA All-Star Weekend to Earth Week donation competitions.
Most returns platforms are built only for steady-state ecommerce workflows, not one-off events. Event coordination usually falls to the ops team, or doesn’t happen at all.

LiquiDonate supports one-off donation events with end-to-end coordination.

Other platforms don’t offer support for event-based returns.

Take your supply chain from overstocked to optimized

Drive Customer Loyalty

A more thoughtful return option builds customer trust and strengthens brand loyalty.

Measure Your Impact

Receive monthly reports and share your contributions with customers and stakeholders.

Make Returns Better

Reduce the environmental impacts of long shipping distances and waste to landfill by extending the life of goods.

Boost Revenue and Enjoy Tax Benefits

Reduce storage costs and gain tax benefits by donating surplus stock, accruing financial benefits when items cannot be resold.

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