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Version: 2.x

Return Merchandise Authorization

Since version 2.5

Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) provides a customer with the means to request a return of an order or part of an order. This guide explains how to integrate this feature into your application.

Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA)

Front-Commerce provides a base platform-agnostic module to support RMA. We also ship some platform-specific implementations for RMA. For now, Magento1EE and Magento2 Commerce are supported.

It is up to the integrator to either use one of our provided implementations or extend our base RMA module to add functionality to the specific platform.

Front-Commerce base RMA module​

The base RMA module is located at src/server/modules/front-commerce/rma it contains the basic GraphQL schema and empty resolver implementation. This module is all you need to know what is required to implement an RMA module that supports your platform.

The frontend implementation​

The frontend implementation of the RMA is shipped with the Front Commerce themes. You can have a look at its implementation in src/web/theme/pages/Account/Orders/Details/ReturnForm should you need to override its behaviour.

Implementing an RMA that suits you​

To implement an RMA for a new platform, you have to provide the server implementation of the Graph. Having a look at Front-Commerce's implementation for Magento1 Enterprise RMA (src/server/modules/magento1ee/rma) should help give you some guidance. Here is a short summary of what is needed:

Extending necessary GraphQL enums​

  1. Extend the ReturnMerchandiseAuthorizationStatus enum with all the possible statuses that an RMA could have.
  2. Extend the ReturnedItemStatus enum with all the possible statuses a returned item can have.

Providing necessary resolver functions​

  1. implement the createReturnMerchandizeAuthorizationRequest mutation. The createReturnMerchandizeAuthorizationRequest mutation will receive a variable called input of type CreateReturnMerchandizeAuthorizationRequestInput and returns a CreateReturnMerchandizeAuthorizationOutput which is a MutationSuccessInterface with an extra order field representing the current order.
  2. implement the field returns of the type Order. This field should return all returned items belonging to this order. (please note that a return object has items fields this is due to the fact that some products have bundled items and it is sometimes possible to return some of those items).
  3. implement isReturnable field of the type Order. This should return true in case the order has returnable items.
  4. implement isReturnable field of the type OrderItem. This should return true in case the item is returnable.
  5. implement returnAttributes field of the type OrderItem. Note: a returnAttribute's type is the interface ReturnAttribute it is up to the integrator to resolve the returnAttribute's type.
  6. implement returns field of the type Customer this should return all returns belonging to the parent customer.

The create RMA page​

We ship a page that is used to create an RMA. The link to this page will show up in the order details page after you have implemented resolvers related to RMA.