{"url":"https://www.clear.sale/blog/clearsale-and-schutz-working-together-on-its-fast-growing-e-commerce","title":"Clearsale and Schutz working together on its fast growing e-commerce.","tldr":"Fast-growing Schutz Shoes upgrades its fraud detection software to slash manual reviews and improve order processing.","markdown":"Online orders were flowing into shoe e-retailer Schutz Shoes, the U.S. division of[Brazilian-based shoe retailer Arezzo & Co](http://www.arezzoco.com.br/)., but the small team spent an increasing amount of time checking whether an order was fraudulent. When one employee on a staff of seven has to manually review the legitimacy of an online order, that’s time away from customers and other business, says [Kimberly Gort, e-commerce manager for Schutz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-gort-87620b28).\n\nSchutz Shoes started selling online in 2014 operating its e-commerce site in the basement of its New York City store. That first year, Schutz had about $350,000 in online sales. In 2015, about half of its product catalog was available online and sales grew to $1.5 million. Now, with all of its products available online, Schutz Shoes projects about $3 million in online sales for 2016, Gort says. The retailer also opened a store in Los Angeles.\n\nWith triple-digit percentage growth comes growing pains. When the e-retailer received a modest five online orders a day, using the free tool from its e-commerce platform provider (Shopify Inc.) worked fine, Gort says. The plugin would [flag orders that might be fraudulent](https://www.internetretailer.com/2016/07/21/german-e-retailer-westwing-invests-e-commerce-security), and the retailer decided to approve or decline such orders. For example, the tool flagged an order if the credit card and shipping addresses didn’t match, so a Schutz employee had to call the customer and determine if it was a legitimate order. Deciding what was and wasn’t fraudulent often was difficult, Gort says.\n\n“There’s always a risk,” she says. “It was like we were playing roulette.”\n\nThe situation frustrated the retailer and the shopper, as some shoppers were blocked from placing an order or their order was delayed or they had to deal with a phone call from the retailer. Schutz was missing out on orders, devoting almost a full employee to manually check the orders and seek out consumers to verify information. As order volume and sales grew, the manual-review model no longer worked, Gort says.\n\nIn July, Schutz Shoes decided to integrate fraud detection software provider ClearSale onto its platform, choosing the vendor because it was used by parent company Arezzo. It took about two weeks to integrate the technology onto Schutz’s site, Gort says.\n\nClearSale factors in about 100 variables to approve or deny orders, and then has its 500-person team to dig deeper on flagged orders, says Rafael Lourenco, vice president of operations at ClearSale. Orders can be approved within three seconds, while an order that requires manual review will take 24-48 hours, he says.\n\nThe impact of adding ClearSale was almost immediate, Gort says, as [[to continue reading at Internet Retailer magazine please click here].](https://www.internetretailer.com/2016/09/19/shoe-e-retailer-takes-steps-improve-its-fraud-detection)"}