Amazon Vendor Central · 1P recovery
Margin is taken, not lost.
Shortages, price claims, chargebacks and co-op accruals come off your remittance automatically, every week, at a scale no finance team can chase. We audit five years of your Vendor Central account, document what was taken in error, and file until Amazon pays it back.
The deduction gap
Every vendor account audited so far has held recoverable discrepancies. All of them.
108+ claim patterns run against 5 years of transaction history.
- $1B+
- Recovered and saved to date
- up to 3%
- Of annual Amazon vendor revenue returned
- 5 years
- Of transaction history audited
- 100%
- Of audited accounts held recoverable claims
Nobody is going to tell you it is there.
Amazon deducts by machine, at line-item scale, across six categories at once. Each one is small enough to wave through and hard enough to prove that almost nobody bothers. Over a year it adds up to a full point of margin.
Named case
$500K
recovered from Amazon
Celsius, in eight weeks — under an hour of their team's time.
Every account audited
100%
held recoverable claims
Across every brand put through the audit so far.
Ops teams catch the obvious ones. The long tail needs tooling.
What we recover
Six ways money leaves a vendor account.
Each one has its own evidence set, its own filing route and its own deadline. We work all six, on the same account, at the same time.
Shortage claims
Amazon says it received fewer units than you invoiced, and short-pays the difference.
Price claims
Amazon believes it was billed at the wrong cost and claws back the difference.
Operational chargebacks
Compliance fines for labelling, routing and ASN rules — issued automatically.
Co-op accruals
Marketing development funds, damage allowances and freight allowances, charged at provisional rates.
Provision for receivables
Money held back against claims Amazon expects to raise later.
Quick-pay discounts and unpaid invoices
Early-payment discounts taken without early payment, and invoices that were never paid at all.
How it works
Four weeks from access to filed claims.
No software to install, nothing to change in how you ship, and no new headcount. You grant read access and we do the rest.
- 01Day 1
Connect
You add us as a Contributor user in Vendor Central and tick nine permission areas. It takes about fifteen minutes on a guided call. No admin control, no ability to change anything in your account.
- 02Days 1–10
Audit
We pull up to five years of transaction history and run it against 108+ claim patterns — every shortage, price claim, chargeback, co-op line and provision on the account.
- 03Week 2
Document
Each recoverable line gets an evidence file: purchase order, invoice, proof of delivery, signed bill of lading, ASN record, carton photos. Amazon rejects thin disputes, so nothing goes out thin.
- 04Weeks 3–4
Recover
We file the claims and chase them. Rejections get re-disputed with the gap closed. You are not in the loop unless we need a document only you hold.
- 05Ongoing
Protect
Deductions do not stop, so neither does the audit. New claims get caught in the period they land, while the evidence is still easy to pull and the dispute window is wide open.
Who we serve
Built for Amazon 1P vendors.
Vendor deductions behave nothing like seller fees. Different documents, different disputes, different deadlines. This is the side of Amazon we work.
You sell 1P, not 3P
Amazon buys your product on a purchase order and resells it. Your account is Vendor Central, your document trail is POs, ASNs and invoices, and your money arrives as a remittance with deductions already taken off.
$1M+ in marketplace revenue
Below that, the deduction volume is usually too thin for the audit to be worth your time. Above it, the long tail gets big fast.
Multiple brands under one roof
Most 1P vendors are wholesale groups running several brands into Amazon on shared terms. One access grant covers the whole portfolio.
Finance and e-commerce both feel it
Deductions land in finance as unexplained short-pays and in e-commerce as margin that will not reconcile. The audit gives both sides the same line-level answer.
Vendor recovery outcomes
What the audit finds.
Results from 1P vendor engagements. Each card names the channel it came from, because a Walmart win and an Amazon win are different claims against different systems.
$500K
recovered
Celsius
Amazon Vendor Central 1P
Recovered from Amazon in eight weeks, with under an hour of the brand's own team time.
$369K
recovered
Organic food brand
Walmart Retail Link 1P
An 87.5% win rate on filed disputes, with no operational lift from the vendor.
1.3%
of annual revenue
Seven-figure vendor
Target Partners Online 1P
Claims paid out in an average of ten days.
About North Reed
A specialist practice.
We work with a small number of vendors each year, on a performance-fee basis. We are paid only out of what we recover.
North Reed is a certified Threecolts Agency Partner. Threecolts built the recovery platform behind the audit, and has passed security reviews run by Amazon and Walmart.
More about the practiceFrom the field guide
Zero risk. Zero disruption.
The audit costs nothing and takes about fifteen minutes of your team's time to set up. If the account is clean, you have lost nothing.
- Free audit
- No recovery, no fee
- Secure, limited access