RebateGap

A worked example

Tier position · Q3 close Sample data

Vendor	YTD purchases	Next tier	Gap	At stake
Vendor A · HVAC	$412,320	$414,500	$2,180	$8,246
Vendor B · controls	$186,940	$250,000	$63,060	$3,738
Vendor C · fasteners	$97,410	$100,000	$2,590	$1,500
Vendor D · pipe	$308,775	—	top tier	—

Vendor A clears the 8% tier with one more order. Miss it and the year settles at 6%. That number lives in the vendor's system, not yours, which is why it usually surfaces in January.

What it checks

01 Tier position. Where each vendor sits against its thresholds, and what the next one is worth. Recalculated every time you upload.
02 Claim deadlines. What has to be filed in the next 30 days, per program, with the paperwork each one wants.
03 Claimed against received. Whether the credit memo that came back matches the claim that went out. Short payments are the quietest leak of the three.

What it is not

Not a niche analytics suite, not a pricing engine, not a six-figure implementation. You export purchases from your ERP, you upload the file, you get a list. Independent distributors in a buying group, roughly five to fifty people, are who this is built for. Everyone selling into that space right now either starts at $500 a month or requires a sales call before they will show you a price.

Who is behind it

I am Anton Tarasenko. I build software, and I am building this one alone. It is early: I am talking to controllers and purchasing managers before writing the rest of it, because the programs differ by vendor and I would rather see real ones than guess.

If you send a purchase export for two or three vendors, I will work out the tier gaps by hand and send them back. No charge, no pitch attached, and you keep the numbers whether or not anything comes of it.

Get in touch

Write to anton@rebategap.com. It reaches one person and he answers it himself. There is no form on this page, nothing to sign up for, and nothing here is tracking you.