Deduction & Trade-Fund Recovery
Retailers are deducting off your invoices. Most of it never gets contested.
We recover invalid deductions, unearned discounts, and leaked trade-fund dollars.
For CPG finance teams watching margin disappear into retailer chargebacks.
30-minute call. No pitch. We respond within one business hour.
Sound Familiar?
The deductions add up faster than anyone’s contesting them.
Contesting deductions is a full-time job. So it gets done last, and the uncontested ones become permanent margin loss.
- Retailers short-pay invoices for shortages, damages, and discounts you never agreed to.
- Cash discounts get taken outside terms, and DSO quietly climbs.
- Trade-fund and promo dollars go out, but nobody reconciles what actually came back.
Why The Margin Slips
Trade spend is your second-biggest line. It’s also the least watched.
Trade and promotional spend is often the largest CPG cost after the product itself. Retailers reclaim it through deductions, and the invalid, duplicate, and unauthorized ones slip through because no one has the capacity to fight each line.
What We Take Off Your Plate
One team. The whole recovery operation.
- Research and resolve deductions for shortages, damages, pricing, and returns
- Recover unearned cash discounts taken outside terms (and bring DSO down)
- Audit and recover invalid, duplicate, and unauthorized trade deductions
- Reconcile trade-fund and rebate programs against what was actually owed
- File and chase freight and shipping claims on your behalf
- Flag chronic short-payers before they cost you another quarter
The Proof
Recovery is the original work. Accu-Track started in 1990 getting back money retailers were quietly holding off CPG invoices, and we’ve been doing it for the biggest brands in the category ever since.
The case below is a licensing recovery, not a deduction recovery, but it’s the same discipline: find what’s owed, prove it, get it back.
recovered for one client in four months (licensing portfolio)
Trusted by companies that can’t afford to get this wrong
In Their Words
Trusted by the people who own the details.
Reliability, accuracy and situational analysis were always to be had on projects that we assigned, always handled professionally and with a very individualized approach to us as the client.
I find their services from an auditing and ethical perspective keeps us honest. Some of these contracts and details are complicated. When they can explain them and then guide me, I am very relieved to get a good explanation.
How It Works
Getting started takes 30 minutes, not 30 days.
A 30-minute call on where deductions and trade dollars are leaking. No pitch.
If there’s a fit, we scope it to your deduction volume and trade-fund setup. You approve before any work starts.
Our team contests deductions, reconciles the funds, and recovers what’s valid. Operational in 2 to 4 weeks.
Common Questions
Straight answers, no pitch.
Shortages, damages, pricing and unit discrepancies, returns, unearned cash discounts, and invalid or duplicate trade deductions. If it was taken outside the terms of sale, it’s in scope.
We price it after the assessment, based on volume and scope. You see the number before you commit to anything.
No. You keep every decision. We handle the deduction grind your team doesn’t have capacity to chase.
Software flags a deduction. It doesn’t contest it, document it, or recover the money. We do the work and bring the dollars back.
Most engagements are operational in 2 to 4 weeks.
You Have Two Options
Keep writing off the deductions, or put a team on recovering them.
Spend 30 minutes finding out what your deductions and trade funds are actually leaking. No pitch, no money down. If there’s a fit, we’re recovering inside 2 to 4 weeks.
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See what your deductions are leaking.
Built for CPG and consumer-products finance teams losing real margin to retailer deductions and trade-fund leakage.
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