QDS claim
QDSA Quantity Delivery / Sell-out Scheme claim — an incentive a brand owes a dealer for how much they sell through (sell-out), as distinct from QPS, which rewards how much they buy.
A QDS (Quantity Delivery / Sell-out Scheme) claim rewards how much a dealer sells through, not how much they buy. Where QPS is earned on purchases (sell-in), QDS is earned on activations or deliveries to the end customer (sell-out).
A dealer typically earns both QPS and QDS on the same product line in the same period. This is why total-margin reconciliation must net them together rather than track either alone — counting one without the other misstates the real margin on that line.
Reconciling QDS means proving the sell-out that earned the claim (activation or delivery data) and matching the promised incentive against the credit note received.