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AVA DEDUCTIONS
Stop Losing Margin to Unchallenged Deductions
Retailers deduct up to 15% of your gross sales. Most brands just accept it. Ava for Deductions shows you what you’re losing, why it keeps happening and how to stop it.
Unlock the Revenue stuck in your Retail Deductions
Every major US retailer operates an automated deduction system. They deduct first and leave you to prove them wrong. Shortage claims, compliance fines, chargebacks, and pricing disputes hit your AR every week, most with no supporting documentation.
The cost is threefold: margin that leaks away unrecovered, skilled people buried in manual disputes instead of commercial work, and millions in working capital trapped in unresolved AR.
Select your revenue below to see what unchallenged deductions are really costing your business.
Calculate your estimated annual deductions cost
$8.9M
Based on industry benchmarks for US retailer deductions
| Revenue | Deduction Leakage | Manual Recovery Cost | Trapped Working Capital |
|---|---|---|---|
| $100M | $6.0M per year unrecovered | $17K / day | $2.8M tied up in unresolved AR |
- $603 / day in financing cost
Disputed deductions take an average of 90 days to resolve. Until they're closed, that cash sits in open AR: unavailable for investment, growth, or operations.
Retailer & Distributor Integrations
Ava connects to every major retailer portal and pulls your deduction data in real time. One view across all your trading partners.
How Ava for Deductions Works
Ava replaces the manual, reactive process with AI that works across every retailer, every deduction, every day.
01 Data Collection
Your team logs into each retailer portal separately, downloads deduction reports, and manually enters them into spreadsheets.
- 5+ retailer portals checked manually
- 10+ hours per week on data entry
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Ava pulls deduction data from every retailer portal automatically. Every claim captured, classified, and logged.
- All retailer portals in one place
- Zero manual data entry
02 Validation
Someone manually reviews each deduction, decides whether to dispute it, and starts hunting for supporting documents across multiple systems.
- Less than 50% of invalid deductions identified
- 30 to 90 day dispute windows
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Ava cross-references every deduction against your shipment records, proof of delivery, and trade agreements. Invalid claims flagged instantly.
- Every invalid deduction flagged automatically
- No dispute window missed
03 Recovery
Your team spends hours assembling dispute packages, pulling documents from different systems, formatting for each retailer, and racing to beat dispute deadlines.
- Less than half of disputes recovered
- Average resolution takes 90+ days
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Ava assembles dispute packages automatically, matching the right documents to each claim and formatting for each retailer.
- 2x more deductions recovered
- Dispute packages assembled in seconds
04 Prevention
The same deductions come back every month. Nobody has time to analyze why because the team is permanently stuck processing the backlog.
- 50%+ of deductions are repeat patterns
- Root cause analysis rarely happens
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Ava spots patterns across retailers, DCs, carriers, and deduction types. She shows you where problems start so you fix the source.
- Recurring patterns identified in days
- Fix the source, not the symptom