For Amazon 1P Vendor Central brands
The Margin Recovery Audit: find the 1.5–4% of PO volume you're quietly losing
Chargebacks, shortage claims, price claims, and co-op deductions accumulate faster than most vendor finance teams can dispute them. The audit quantifies your leakage across eight recovery streams, ranks it by winnability, and hands you a dispute plan — then we can execute it for you on contingency.
How the engagement ladder works
1 · Free deduction scan
Send standard Vendor Central exports; get back estimated recoverable dollars by stream. No commitment.
2 · Margin Recovery Audit
$2,500 fixed fee — full leakage quantification, root-cause read, and a prioritized dispute plan. Credited if you proceed.
3 · Recovery engagement
We file and manage disputes. You pay 20% of what Amazon actually confirms recovered. No recovery, no fee.
4 · Prevention & managed
Fix the operational root causes (routing, labeling, EDI, invoicing) and keep a monthly watch so leakage stays closed.
Leakage calculator
Estimate your annual deduction leakage
Across 1P vendors, 1.5–4% of PO volume is typically lost to chargebacks, shortage claims, price claims, and co-op deductions that never get disputed.
Estimated annual leakage: $150,000 – $400,000
How much of yours is actually recoverable — and inside Amazon's 2-year dispute window — is what the free scan answers, from your real reports.
Get the real number — free scanYour data stays yours
No credentials required
The scan and audit run on standard report exports you pull yourself. We never ask for your Vendor Central login.
Scoped and revocable
If a recovery engagement needs direct access for dispute filing, it is explicitly scoped, read-only wherever possible, and you can revoke it at any time.
A named operator, not a queue
You work with a senior ex-Amazon operator on your specific backlog — days to answers, transparent pricing, no platform ticket cycles.
One more reason timing matters: Amazon now enforces a strict 2-year dispute limit on shortage and price claims, and older bulk-dispute routes are being phased out. Every quarter a backlog sits undisputed, part of it expires for good.
What the audit covers
Chargebacks — by category, with prevention root causes
Shortage claims and price claims
Co-op / contra-COGS deduction review
Provision and returns reconciliation
Catalog & listing-content defects suppressing revenue
Advertising efficiency and wasted spend signals
Account health and operational-metrics exposure
Profitability view: Net PPM by ASIN group
See a sample audit report (illustrative data).
Frequently asked questions
Who is the audit for?
Amazon 1P (Vendor Central) brands with enough PO volume that 1.5–4% deduction leakage is material — typically the finance, supply-chain, or commercial-operations leader who owns deductions.
What does the free deduction scan involve?
You export standard Vendor Central reports; we run them through our recovery engine and return a summary of estimated recoverable dollars by stream. No system access and no commitment required.
How is the full audit priced?
The Margin Recovery Audit is a fixed fee of $2,500, credited in full against a recovery engagement if you proceed — so the diagnostic costs nothing if we go on to recover for you.
How does the recovery engagement work?
Contingency-based: 20% of what is actually recovered and confirmed by Amazon. No recovery, no fee. Prevention and managed-service retainers are available once the backlog is cleared.
What do you need from us to start?
Read-only report exports from Vendor Central (deductions, chargebacks, shortages, co-op agreements). Most teams assemble them in under an hour; we provide the exact list.
Do you need access to our Vendor Central account?
No. The scan and audit run entirely on report exports you pull yourself — we never ask for Vendor Central credentials. If a recovery engagement later needs direct access for dispute filing, it is scoped, read-only where possible, and revocable by you at any time.
How are you different from the big recovery platforms?
Most of the category has consolidated into one platform vendor (SPS Commerce, which acquired Carbon6, SupplyPike, and Chargeguard). A platform gives you software and a queue; we give you a senior ex-Amazon operator working your specific deduction backlog, transparent fixed-then-contingency pricing, and answers in days rather than ticket cycles.
Start with the free scan
One email, a handful of standard exports, and you'll know what your deduction backlog is worth before spending a dollar.
Request a free deduction scan