For Amazon 1P Vendor Central brands
Vendor Central deduction recovery, run as a managed service
Chargebacks, shortage claims, price claims, and co-op deductions come off your remittance in lines no single person on your team owns. We find them, rank them by winnability, file the disputes with the evidence Amazon's own process accepts, and get paid only on what Amazon confirms recovered.
What the service recovers
Industry estimates put typical 1P deduction leakage at 1.5% to 4% of PO volume, spread across streams with different mechanics and different deadlines. A chargeback gives you 30 days to file a first dispute. Shortage and price claims are capped at a hard 2-year lookback from invoice date. Co-op and contra-COGS overbilling reaches back across a roughly 2-year backlog that is usually the single biggest one-time recovery.
The service covers all eight streams the Margin Recovery Audit quantifies: five on 1P Vendor Central, three on 3P Seller Central for hybrid operations. For a plain-language map of the deduction types themselves, read Amazon deductions explained and the shortage claim dispute guide.
How a recovery engagement runs
Prioritized, not sprayed
Every claim enters a dispute queue ranked by winnability and deadline aging, so expiring claims get filed first and weak claims never waste an escalation.
Evidence-led filing
Disputes are backed by what wins: signed proof of delivery, BOL records, EDI and ASN transmission logs, and the signed vendor agreement, mapped claim by claim.
Contingency pricing
You pay 20% of what Amazon actually confirms recovered. No recovery, no fee, no lock-in, no 60-day escape clause.
The recovery tools became one platform. We became the alternative: a named senior operator who has sat on Amazon's side of the table, not a support ticket. If you are comparing the software route, our SupplyPike vs Carbon6 vs ChargeGuard comparison lays out the trade-offs honestly.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between the Margin Recovery Audit and the recovery service?
The audit is the diagnosis: a $2,500 fixed-fee quantification of your leakage with every claim ranked by winnability, credited in full if you proceed. The recovery service is the execution: we file and manage the disputes the audit prioritized, and you pay 20% of what Amazon actually confirms recovered. Most clients enter through the free deduction scan, then the audit, then recovery.
Can you recover deductions older than two years?
No, and nobody can. Shortage and price claims are capped at a hard 2-year lookback measured from invoice date; Vendor Central still displays older data, but disputes on it are auto-rejected. That deadline is why an untouched backlog loses money every quarter, and why the dispute queue is ordered by deadline aging first.
Do you need our Vendor Central login?
Not to start. The scan and audit run on standard report exports you pull yourself. If the recovery engagement needs direct access for dispute filing, it is explicitly scoped, read-only wherever possible, and revocable at any time.
Which deduction types does the service cover?
Eight streams. On 1P Vendor Central: compliance chargebacks, shortage and price claims, co-op and contra-COGS overbilling, Net PPM reconciliation, and Direct Fulfillment freight. For hybrid operations, three 3P streams: FBA reimbursements, FBA returns, and A-to-z and SAFE-T claims granted in error.
Start with the free deduction scan
Send standard Vendor Central exports and get back estimated recoverable dollars by stream, before you spend anything. The $2,500 audit that follows is credited in full if you proceed to recovery.
Request a free deduction scanOr see how the audit works.