Deductions Agent

Stop losing margin
to trade deductions.

Every chargeback, shortage, fee, and promo claim — audited, validated, and disputed. Serve recovers the cash you're owed and builds the paper trail to win it back.
Services

Serve's agents recover revenue you already earned

AI agents for CPG teams that audit deductions, dispute chargebacks, recover short-pays, and turn messy retailer claims into clean cash back.

Recover margin

It reads every line item so you don't have to

Deductions, shortages, and chargebacks — flagged the moment they post and scored against your contracts, so you see what's actually worth fighting.

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The problem

Deductions quietly drain your margin.

Retailers deduct first and explain later. Most brands lack the time, data, and audit trail to challenge it — so valid disputes expire and invalid deductions become permanent losses.

Invalid chargebacks slip through

Compliance fines and chargebacks are issued faster than your team can validate them, so questionable deductions get paid by default.

Shortage claims go unchallenged

Claimed shortages rarely match what actually shipped, but without proof of delivery the deduction simply stands.

Promo claims are hard to verify

Off-invoice and bill-back deductions arrive months later with no clean tie-back to the deal you actually agreed to.

Deadlines expire silently

Every retailer has a dispute window. Miss it and the money is gone — and most teams never even see the clock.

No single source of truth

Deduction data is scattered across portals, EDI, and email, so no one can see how much margin is leaking or why.

Trade analyst reviewing live deduction cards on a tablet in a distribution center
Real-time

See every deduction the moment it hits.

Shortage claims, promo deductions, invalid fees, and invoice mismatches — surfaced, classified, and matched to proof of delivery automatically.

Deduction claims resolving to a glowing recovered-cash total on a warehouse dock
Recovery

From flagged to recovered, automatically.

Serve traces each chargeback, shortage, and invalid promo to resolution — and shows the cash it puts back on your P&L.

Coverage

What Serve changes

Serve's agents own the deduction lifecycle. You set the guardrails; they do the work.

Stop accepting
retailer leakage

Retailers take deductions by default. Serve gives your team a second set of eyes on every short-pay, fee, claim, and chargeback before lost margin becomes permanent.

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Recovered
50+
disputes filed / 7 days
Monthly recovery
$4,900/ $10,000
KRKroger
$120
TATarget
$120
WAWalmart
$120

Turn tribal knowledge
into a system

Every retailer has its own rules, portals, timelines, and dispute logic. Serve learns your playbooks and makes recovery repeatable across every account.

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Expertise that combines retailer rules, evidence & dispute logic
Recovery in every account
20192025

Make deductions a
profit center

Instead of treating deductions as back-office cleanup, Serve turns recovery into a measurable margin lever — showing dollars found, disputed, approved, and collected.

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+5,000 deductions recovered
Margin recovered+2.5%
49%
DisputedApprovedCollectedPrevented
Enterprise security

Built for enterprise from day one.

Your trade data stays secure, explainable, and permission-aware — from the first connection through every dispute and recovery.

Role-based access

People only see the accounts and deductions they're cleared for

Full observability

Every query, dispute, and recovery action is logged and exportable

Tenant isolation

Your trade data is never commingled or used to train shared models

Security that scales with your trade data, not against your team.

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Blog and articles

Latest insights and trends

Field notes on recovering trade deductions — from connection to recovered cash.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about recovering trade deductions with Serve — from connection to recovered cash.

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How does Serve connect to our deduction data?+

Serve integrates with retailer portals, EDI feeds (810/812), and your ERP, so deductions are ingested automatically — no manual exports.

Does Serve file disputes for us?+

Yes. Serve assembles the evidence packet, files the dispute in the retailer's system, and tracks it to resolution. Your team approves and oversees the work.

Which retailers do you support?+

Serve works across grocery, mass, club, and e-commerce retailers, adapting to each one's deduction codes and dispute workflows.

How quickly can we see recovered cash?+

Most teams have their first validated disputes filed within weeks of connecting their data, with recovery following each retailer's resolution timeline.

Will this replace our deductions analyst?+

No — it makes them far more effective. Serve does the repetitive audit and filing work so your team focuses on the highest-value disputes and root causes.

How is our data handled?+

Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, isolated per customer, and never used to train shared models. See our Enterprise page for full security detail.

See what you're owed.

Book a demo and we'll show you how much trade margin Serve can recover from your deductions — using your own data.