Your buying group counts the rebates it negotiated.You signed the rest yourself.

We check the group statement against your own purchase export, and the agreements you signed yourself against the same file.

  • Your group statement
  • Agreements you signed yourself
  • Your purchase export
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Two statements for the same period side by side, one figure ringed on each
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What runs through the group, and what does not

Your group reports on the programs it negotiated. The ones you negotiated yourself sit outside its statement.

100%

of supplier rebates is what one buying group says it distributes to its members

Affiliated Distributors, why AD
“Independents want one place where they can manage all their rebates, regardless of whether they are passed down from the buying group, generated from supplier relationships outside of the group, or realized from additional negotiations above and beyond the group program”
Steve Seguin, VP, Products at LBMX. Announcing a rebate product built for buying groups and their members. LBMX, next generation rebate management, 1 June 2022 · read 23 October 2026

Three sources, named by a company that sells to the groups. Passed down from the group, negotiated outside it, and negotiated on top of it. The group statement covers the first one.

One brand, three rebates stacked

Two of the three are counted on your purchases. The third is counted on everybody’s.

Know your rebate programs: what are you leaving on the table?

The layers and the stacking are the guide’s. The levels are the example it works through.

  • Base rebate

    Your purchases

    Paid on purchases from every active supplier, back to the first dollar. No rate is published: it varies by supplier, category and product type.

  • Individual growth rebate

    Your prior year

    Many programs pay this on top of the base when you grow.

    • You grow 7%
      +1%
    • You grow 15%
      +2%
    • You grow 20%
      +3%

  • Group growth rebate

    Everyone’s purchases

    Many programs pay this to everyone buying that brand when the group grows.

    • The group grows 5%
      +0.5%
    • The group grows 10%
      +1%
    • The group grows 15%
      +1.5%

    That total is not in your export, and a check on your export cannot put it there.

The bars are the percentage points each level adds, all on one scale. NetPlus Alliance, Know Your Rebate Programs, 10 September 2025
“Many programs pay an additional rebate to all distributors purchasing that brand if NetPlus reaches defined growth levels. Group growth rebates are also paid in addition to the base rebates, so they would stack on top of your base rebate and any individual growth rebates.”
NetPlus Alliance, an industrial buying group. Its own guide to the rebate programs a member can earn. NetPlus Alliance, Know Your Rebate Programs, 10 September 2025 · read 23 October 2026

The trigger on that last layer is the growth of the whole group. It is measured on purchases made by companies you do not own, so no export from your own system can produce it.

A note on the evidence. Everything cited on this page is a buying group or its software vendor describing itself, which is marketing rather than a contract. We also looked for a published split between what a distributor earns through his group and what he earns on agreements he negotiated himself. We did not find one, so this page puts no number on it.

What we read, and what we check it against

What they paid, and what you earned

Your purchases are priced under the agreement and set against the statement, and lines that disagree come back with the clause behind them.

How reconciliation works
Two stacks of paper side by side, one shorter, with a bar marking the height the short one never reached
  1. 01

    Send both sets of paper

    Their statement, the agreements you signed yourself, and one purchase export.

  2. 02

    We separate the two

    Which invoices ran under a group program and which under yours, set by a rule you confirm.

  3. 03

    You see both gaps

    The difference on the group statement, and the difference on each supplier’s.

Read next: Claim deadlines · Supplier audits · Rebate accrual

Distributors we do this for: Electrical · Plumbing · HVAC · PVF · Industrial & MRO

Questions about this page

Two things. The agreements you negotiated directly sit outside the group program, so the group statement does not carry them. And the group statement itself is arithmetic, which can be put beside the invoices that earned it and read line by line. What we cannot give you is one number for your whole position. Some group levels pay when the whole group grows, measured on purchases made by other members, which no export of yours contains, so your group’s own portal stays the place to read what the group calculated.

See it before you send anything

What it costs, which files we need and how your data is handled are answered once, in one place each: Pricing · Questions on the statement audit

Send the statement your group sent you.

Add the purchase export for the same period and one agreement you signed yourself. We price every line under the agreement and send back the gap.

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