HelloFresh: refund request
Report an unsatisfactory ingredient or meal kit within 5 days of receipt by email or phone. HelloFresh usually gives a credit and may, in some situations, give a partial or full refund.
What does this mean?
Grade A (high: almost everything comes from official pages read directly). 100% of 19 sources are the organization's own pages or government sites.
Collect
- order and delivery date
- photos of the item or box
- description of the problem
Steps
Within 5 days of delivery, email or call Customer Care. Describe the problem and attach photos.
Keep the item until HelloFresh replies; it may ask for the item back or a photo.
If a box was late and you are unsure about freshness, contact Customer Care.
More contacts for this issue
Facts you can cite
- Deadline
Report an unsatisfactory item "within five (5) days of the date you received the unsatisfactory item," by email to hello@hellofresh.com or by calling (646) 846-3663 (section 14).
Source: hellofresh.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Compensation
HelloFresh "may give you credit for the individual ingredient or Meal Kit" and "in some situations" a partial or full refund. It may require "the return of the unsatisfactory ingredient or Meal Kit, or a photograph of such" (section 14).
Source: hellofresh.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Compensation
Boxes are generally delivered before 9:00 PM local time on the delivery date. If delivery is not feasible, HelloFresh "will cancel your delivery for the impacted period and issue you a credit" (section 10.5).
Source: hellofresh.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Process
Before arbitration you must send a written dispute notice by certified mail to HelloFresh, Attn. Legal Department, 28 Liberty Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10005, with a copy to arbitrationoptout@hellofresh.com. Either side may start arbitration or small claims if it is not resolved within 60 days. You may opt out of arbitration by written notice to arbitrationoptout@hellofresh.com within 30 days of first becoming subject to it (section 24).
Source: hellofresh.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Contact
California residents may report complaints to the Complaint Assistance Unit of the California Department of Consumer Affairs at (800) 952-5210 (section 30, Cal. Civ. Code 1789.3).
Source: hellofresh.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Policy
Money loaded as HelloFresh Cash is a "non-refundable amount," and promotional, discount or compensation funds may be withdrawn "upon your account cancellation."
Source: hellofresh.com, verified 2026-10-13
If that fails, escalate
Go up one step at a time. Keep the reference numbers and dates from each contact.
Customer service
Written complaint
Card or bank dispute
Fair Credit Billing Act billing-error and purchase-dispute rights (Regulation Z)
Electronic Fund Transfer Act error resolution and unauthorized-transfer liability (Regulation E)
Card dispute for charges after a cancellation.
Federal regulator
State agency
Your state’s attorney general. Find it in the list of state agencies (also as JSON:
states/<code>.json, for example states/ny.json).
Watch out
- Cancelling online needs sign-in; the Terms give the click path but no direct cancel URL.
- The weekly deadline is shown only on the signed-in My Menu page and depends on the delivery day.
- The contact-us page returned HTTP 403 to automated fetches on 2026-10-13.
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