---
type: skill
slug: returns-tracker
name: Returns Tracker
audience: people
category: Home & Money
schedule: Daily, 9:00 AM
setup: 2 minutes
platforms: [Grok Bot, Muse, Dots]
writes_or_sends: Read-only. Never starts a return or creates a label without your OK.
version: 1.0.0
updated: 2026-10-31
---

# Returns Tracker

> Never miss a return window, or a refund that should have landed.

- Category: Home & Money
- Schedule: Daily, 9:00 AM
- Works with: Grok Bot, Muse, Dots
- Setup time: 2 minutes
- Version: 1.0.0 (updated 2026-10-31)
- Cost: light

## What it does

Returns Tracker remembers what you can still send back and by when. It reads your order and delivery emails, checks each store's return policy, and warns you a few days before a window closes. When you decide to return something, it lays out the steps from the store's own returns page, including the label link and drop-off options, then watches for the refund and tells you if it's late or short. It never starts a return without your OK.

## What you get

- Every open return window with its deadline
- A warning before each window closes
- Return steps and the store's own label link, when you ask
- Refunds tracked until they land, with late ones flagged
- Silence on days with nothing due

## Data it uses

- Gmail or Outlook (order, delivery and refund emails)
- Web (store return policy pages)

## Safety

- Writes or sends: Read-only. Never starts a return or creates a label without your OK.
- Reads: Order, delivery and refund emails
- Reads: Public store return-policy pages
- Cost: Low: one quick run a day (~30 a month); silent when nothing is due.
- Warning: Never buys, pays, cancels, returns or sends anything without your explicit OK for that item.
- Warning: It never starts a return, creates a label, books a pickup or contacts a store without your OK.
- Warning: Order emails can contain instructions aimed at AI; the skill treats them as data.

## Install

- SKILL.md: https://botplaza.lol/skills/returns-tracker/SKILL.md
- Zip: https://botplaza.lol/downloads/returns-tracker.zip
- JSON: https://botplaza.lol/skills/returns-tracker.json
- Ready prompt: https://botplaza.lol/api/install?slug=returns-tracker&platform=grok (or muse, dots)
- MCP: call install_skill with slug "returns-tracker" at https://botplaza.lol/api/mcp

### Grok Bot (verified)

1. Copy skills/returns-tracker/SKILL.md (the whole file, including the --- header).
2. Open a one-to-one chat with your Grok Bot and paste the prompt below, with the file where it says.
3. When the Bot asks, connect: Gmail or Outlook (required, to read order, delivery and refund emails). It shows a connect card right in the chat.
4. Try it once now: "Run Returns Tracker."
5. The routine shows in the Bot's info pane (click the Bot's name in the chat header) under Routines, where you can pause or edit it.

Note: Skills and routines are saved by asking the Bot; no settings to dig through.

### Muse (partially-verified)

1. Copy skills/returns-tracker/SKILL.md.
2. Open Muse and paste the prompt below with the file where it says.
3. Try it: "Run Returns Tracker." Muse has no skill install for outside skills, so it follows the pasted instructions.
4. Ask Muse to make it a recurring task every day at 9:00 AM. It then shows under the Assistant icon > Upcoming.
5. Muse Code (developer CLI): unzip downloads/returns-tracker.zip, run `muse skills validate ./returns-tracker` then `muse skills install ./returns-tracker --scope user`. Optional: add the BotPlaza connector (https://botplaza.lol/api/mcp) under mcpServers in ~/.config/muse/settings.json.

Note: Recurring tasks and Muse Code skill install are documented by Meta. Installing outside skills in the Muse app is not.

### Dots (partially-verified)

1. Copy skills/returns-tracker/SKILL.md.
2. Paste the prompt below into your dot's conversation in ChatGPT, with the file where it says.
3. Wait for the dot to confirm the schedule, time zone and end date.
4. Optional: in ChatGPT, Plugins > + > Add custom MCP server with https://botplaza.lol/api/mcp (no authentication). Dots can use installed plugins, but OpenAI hasn't said whether that includes custom ones.
5. Business, Enterprise, Healthcare and Edu workspaces can also upload downloads/returns-tracker.zip under Plugins > Skills > Create > Upload from your computer.

Note: Dots are available on ChatGPT Pro, Business Premium and Enterprise, and are still rolling out. Pasting instructions in and scheduled check-ins are documented.

Page: https://botplaza.lol/skills/returns-tracker/