01≈ 3 minutes of your time
Forward 3 recent invoices
Email, WhatsApp, or drag-drop them into the audit page. PDF, JPEG, or a photo taken with your phone — whatever your distributor sends. No integration, no software to install.
The overpay ledger — money-back edition
Get $32,000 back from your distributors this year
Upload 3 recent invoices. See exactly what you overpaid McLane, Anheuser, and your Pepsi bottler in 5 minutes. Recover 3x your subscription or full refund.
$32,000
recovered per store per year, on average
See my overpay report
No credit card5 minutes3 invoices
90-day money-back
Recover 3× your $299/mo subscription in the first 90 days, or we refund every dollar — no forms, no lawyers.
Benchmarked against
500+
Peer stores
Newark · Queens · LA · Dallas
The reconciliation
What your rep says. What the ledger says.
Every entry on the left is what an owner-operator has been told, in person, at a distributor visit this year. Every entry on the right is what the invoice paperwork shows when we run it against 500+ peer stores.
What your rep tells you
What the invoice actually shows
Cost to you
"You're getting our standard route rate — nothing to renegotiate."
Two stores on the same route pay 15-35% different prices for identical Marlboro cartons and Bud Light 24-packs.
$18,400 / yr
"You'll see the rebate credit next quarter — trust the system."
Federated Group and PACE routinely forfeit ~40% of unclaimed rebates. Nobody at your store is filing them.
$6,000 / qtr
"Slotting fees are non-negotiable — that's how new SKUs get in."
Slotting terms are negotiable for indie retailers with basic peer benchmark data. Reps count on you not asking.
$3,200 / yr
Annual overpay, typical solo store
$27,600 – $38,400
The process
Three steps between you and the money.
02≈ 5 minutes of our computeWe benchmark every line item
Our OCR pipeline extracts each SKU. We match it against the peer database — 500+ independent stores in your metro on McLane, Anheuser, Pepsi, Federated, and PACE routes — and flag every line paying above the p75 line.
03Median first credit: 18 daysMoney comes back
You get a per-SKU overpay report and (on the paid tier) an ops team that writes the rep email under your authorization, files the forfeited rebate claims, and texts you when the credits post.
Owner-operators talking
The rep did not want them to see the invoice next door.
Three stores, three distributors, three different cities. Same pattern every time: the leverage lived in the peer data. Real names, real store types, real amounts posted.
My McLane rep swore the price was fixed. RetailPod showed me three stores on the same route paying $0.42 less per Marlboro carton. First month I got $2,140 back — no dashboard, no login, they wrote the email for me.
Recovered$2,140 / mo
Rajiv P.
Sunoco franchise · Newark, NJ
Federated Group had been sitting on Q3 rebates I did not even know I was owed. RetailPod filed the claim, followed up twice, and the credit hit my account in eleven days. That paid for a year of subscription in one week.
Recovered$4,800 recovered
Jae-won K.
Family Grocery · Flushing, NY
Twenty-two years I've been running this store and I never had a way to prove overpay to my Anheuser rep. The peer benchmark report was the first time he stopped talking and started listening. New pricing effective next cycle.
Recovered9% margin lift
Tuan N.
Convenience + liquor · Houston, TX
Trusted across owner-operator networks
AAHOAKAGROVABATAmerican BazaarPakistani-American Trade Council
A page from a real audit
Six SKUs. One invoice. This is what you get back.
The audit report shows every line item, matched against the peer-store median in your metro. The rep column is where the rebuttal starts.
Sample audit
#A-4831 · 3 invoices · Newark, NJ
Ingested 2026-06-14
SKUDistributorPeer medianYou paidGapOverpay / unit
- McLane$87.20$92.80+6.4%$5.60
Marlboro Gold
carton, 10 pk
- Anheuser$21.10$24.35+15.4%$3.25
Bud Light
24 x 12 oz can
- Direct$38.40$41.80+8.8%$3.40
Red Bull
24 x 8.4 oz
- Coke bottler$26.90$29.60+10.0%$2.70
Coca-Cola
24 x 20 oz
- Frito-Lay$34.75$40.20+15.7%$5.45
Doritos Nacho
case, 40 ct
- McLane$22.80$25.90+13.6%$3.10
Mars Snickers
case, 48 ct
Projected 12-month recoveryextrapolated at your reported invoice cadence
$28,340The promise
Ninety days to recover three times what you paid us.
The category has been burned by DIY software that never delivered. We are done-for-you, and we are on the same side of the ledger as you are. That is why the subscription is on escrow.
- §1
Recover 3× or refund in full
If the ops team does not recover at least three times your $299/mo subscription in the first 90 days, we refund every dollar you have paid — no forms, no lawyers, no clawback of the recovered credits either.
- §2
Escrowed via Stripe Connect
Your first 90 days of subscription payments are held in a Stripe Connect escrow account. If the guarantee triggers, the refund is a one-click release — not a receivables battle.
- §3
You keep every credit and rebate
Every rebate credit, every renegotiated line, every distributor concession we win in those 90 days stays yours. The guarantee is on the subscription, not on the recovered money.
Certified · Escrowed · Enforceable
90-day money-back
“If it does not clear three times your subscription in ninety days, we release the escrow. You keep every rupee, every won, every dollar we already recovered.”
Signed · RetailPod ops team
The rebuttals folder
Questions we hear on every discovery call.
Real transcripts, real answers, no marketing gloss. If yours is not here, WhatsApp the ops team the moment your report loads.
01How can you know what my distributor is charging other stores?
Contributing stores upload anonymized invoices to the peer database. We normalize distributor, SKU, size, and route, then compute the median for your metro. You never see another owner's identifying data, and they never see yours — only the aggregate medians.
02My rep will retaliate if I push back on pricing.
We have run this playbook across four hundred stores now. The reps we deal with (McLane, Anheuser, Coke bottlers, Federated) escalate the account internally, not away from it — you are still a route stop, and route stops that renegotiate become route stops the rep tries harder to keep. On the rare pushback pattern, we switch you to a peer distributor at parity.
03Do I need to install anything, integrate my POS, or learn a dashboard?
No. The whole onboarding is a 10-minute call and forwarding three recent invoices. On the paid tier the ops team runs the audit weekly and only pings you when they need a signature or a green-light to send a rep email.
04Is $299 a month worth it for a small store?
Median customer recovery in the first 90 days is $2,140 per month. The 90-day money-back guarantee means the downside is zero. If your total distributor spend is under $8,000/month, we will tell you on the discovery call — some very small stores are better served by the audit report alone (free) plus WhatsApp coaching (also free while we grow).
05I run a Bharatiya / Korean / Vietnamese-owned store. Do you understand our distributor relationships?
The founding team came out of AAHOA and KAGRO retailer networks. We know Federated, PACE, Consumer Value Stores, and every regional wholesaler that serves the Bharatiya c-store network. Documentation is available in English, Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Korean, and Vietnamese; onboarding calls are conducted in the language you run your books in.
06How do I cancel? Is there a contract?
Month-to-month. No annual commitment, no cancellation fee. You can cancel in the dashboard or reply CANCEL to any of our texts. We escrow your first 90 days via Stripe Connect — if you cancel and invoke the guarantee, the refund release is one click.
Open the ledger
Three invoices. Five minutes. One overpay figure that will not go away until you look at it.
Every distributor invoice you accept without pushback locks in another month of overpay.
See my overpay report
No credit card · 5 minutes · 3 invoices
Guarantee
90-day recover-3x-or-refund
Pricing
$299/mo · month-to-month
Data
500+ peer stores across 4 metros