Pipe moves by the truckload.The rebate moves by the clause.

We read the paragraph behind every rate, then check each pipe, valve and fitting line against the one that governs it.

  • Carbon and stainless pipe
  • Valves and actuation
  • Fittings and flanges
  • Gaskets, bolts and studs

The first pass is free while we onboard the first ten distributors.

Bundled steel pipe, flanges and fittings racked in a pipe, valve and fitting distributor yard
Generated with AI. Not a photograph of a real place or person.

No PVF agreement turned up in the filings. The shape did.

A level, a period it is measured over, and a window to claim in. Three industries, three sets of lawyers.

We did not find a supplier agreement from an HVAC, plumbing or electrical distributor in the public filings we searched, so the paper here comes from other industries. It shows the shape of a clause. It is not evidence about your trade. On this page that is true of all three rows above. They are quoted for the clause each one carries and not for the trade it came from. How we searched

One level, and what crossing it was worth

$600,000

is what crossing $6,000,000 of purchases was worth in one signed agreement

Ruud Lighting supply terms, Exhibit 2.1, SEC EDGAR
“In any calendar year in which the aggregate purchase price for Products purchased equals or exceeds $6,000,000, Seller shall credit Purchaser's account within 30 days of the end of such calendar year in the following amounts of the aggregate purchase price paid for Products ("Earned Rebate") during such calendar year”
Ruud Lighting and Advanced Lighting Technologies. Supply terms filed with the SEC, section 5, the sentence above the table. Ruud Lighting supply terms, Exhibit 2.1, SEC EDGAR · read 23 October 2026

The rate is applied to everything bought in the year rather than to the amount above the level, and the credit arrives within 30 days of the year closing. That is what turns a thousand dollars of buying into six hundred thousand.

Three files, read clause by clause

One agreement, several rates, read paragraph by paragraph

One rate for pipe and another for valves and fittings means each line is counted on the paragraph that governs it.

How the reconciliation works
Nine supplier agreements fanned out, every one laid out differently, one pulled forward with an amber tab
  1. 01

    Send three files

    The rebate statement, the agreement behind it, and the purchase export it should match.

  2. 02

    We read the clauses

    Pipe, valves and fittings counted on the paragraph that governs each of them.

  3. 03

    You see the gap

    Paragraph by paragraph, what each one earned and what the statement actually paid.

Also for PVF distributors: How a statement is checked · Claim deadlines · Supplier audits

Questions about this page

Yes. Where an agreement pays differently by line, the pipe, the valves and the fittings are counted separately, each against the paragraph that governs it, and then added back to the total the supplier sent you.

We did not find a PVF supply agreement in the filings we searched, and these three carry the clauses that matter: a level, a period it is measured over and a window to claim in. Your own agreement is the only one that governs your money, and reading it is the first thing the first pass does.

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 one statement from your biggest pipe supplier.

We read every paragraph that pays, count each line under it, and send back the difference.

Free while we onboard the first ten distributors.