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Amazon Recovery Commission Calculator

Most recovery services quote a commission rate but charge it on your total recovery — including the shortages Amazon auto-corrects for free. This calculator strips that out and shows what their commission actually costs against the incremental recovery they make, versus PACMAN, which charges commission on real dispute recovery only.

Adjust the inputs to your own Amazon revenue and shortage rates. The chart marks the exact commission rate above which a recovery service starts costing you money.

Initial shortage $66,000 @ 6.6% · per $1M revenue
Recovery service
Charges on filed claims + recovery
Total recovery 61%
Incremental 10% · $6K
Fee: 20% · $7K
PACMAN
Charges only on real dispute work
Total recovery 85%
Incremental 34% · $22K
Fee: 20% · $4K
SCR auto-correct · free SCR via claim · service charges, PACMAN doesn't Recovery service real recovery PACMAN real recovery Lost

Recovery delivered per $1 of fee paid

Others
$0.86
PACMAN
$5.00

Margin expansion per $ of revenue

Others
-10 bps
PACMAN
+179 bps

Hidden deductions opportunity

Others
+0 bps
PACMAN
+134 bps
Above 17.3% commission, a recovery service starts losing you money.See the margin curve
-100+0+100+200+3000%10%20%30%break-even 17.3%PACMANRecovery serviceAt 20.0% commission:Recovery service -10 bpsPACMAN +179 bpsRecovery service's commission rateIncremental margin (bps)
Drag Recovery service's commission in the controls to move the line.
How this is calculated

All figures normalized to your Amazon revenue. Defaults are conservative — adjust to match your own observed numbers.

Initial shortage rate (6.6% default)
Industry observation across Vendor Central brands we've worked with. Adjust to your own observed rate.
SCR auto-correct (≈50% of initial shortage)
Amazon's automatic Shortage Claim Recovery resolves about half of filed claims without dispute — 61%–72% across our own client set. Set "Final shortage rate" to match your own.
Recovery service's actual recovery on the rest (20% default)
Upper end of the 10–20% range we've observed in recovery-service performance data on genuinely disputed claims.
PACMAN's recovery on the rest (70%)
Based on pilot data and six years inside Amazon's compliance machinery. Validated against your numbers during the free audit.
Fee math
Service's fee = commission × (filed-SCR + real recovery). PACMAN's fee = commission × real recovery only. Margin = real recovery − fee, divided by revenue.

No confidential Amazon documents cited. Source chain: public competitor marketing → industry observation → pilot data → founder expertise.

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