Find the scheme money your brands quietly kept.
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You hit the targets. You ran the offers. But did every brand actually pay every scheme they promised? Answer a few questions about your brands and how you handle claims — and see where QPS, price protection, credit notes and free goods leak past you every year.
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Rough numbers are fine — this is a 60-second estimate, not an audit.
That's about ₹33.6 L a year in scheme income across these brands.
Why do multi-brand electronics dealers lose scheme money?
Because the promise and the payment live in different places, months apart. A scheme is announced in a circular; the money comes back later as a credit note buried in a monthly statement, with no line-level reference tying it to the scheme that earned it. Across eight brands and dozens of credit notes, the gaps — a volume slab claimed store-by-store, a price drop nobody filed protection on, a credit note that came a few percent short, a gift that never shipped — are impossible to hold in your head. That unclaimed and short-paid money is scheme leakage, and it compounds every quarter you don't reconcile.
Questions dealers ask
What is scheme leakage?
Scheme leakage is the trade-scheme money a dealer earns but never actually receives — QPS or QDS claimed at the wrong slab, price protection never filed on unsold stock, credit notes that arrive short-paid, promised free goods that never ship, and claims that expire before follow-up. Because each hole is small and arrives months apart across many brands, the total stays invisible unless every scheme is reconciled promised-vs-received.
How much scheme money do multi-brand dealers typically lose?
It varies by brand mix, category and how tightly the dealer tracks claims — but a common range is a low double-digit percentage of total scheme income slipping through unclaimed or short-paid. The biggest holes are usually unclaimed price protection and volume slabs claimed store-by-store instead of on combined purchases. The only way to know your own figure is to reconcile your actual brand statements line-by-line.
How do I find out if a brand short-paid a scheme?
Match the scheme circular against the brand's monthly statement claim by claim: find the credit-note reference for each scheme you claimed and confirm the amount equals what the circular promised. If there is no credit note, or the amount is short, that scheme is unpaid or short-paid — a recoverable claim. The shortfall almost always hides at the line level, not the statement total.
Is the audit figure accurate?
It is a directional estimate built from your own inputs and stated habits, using typical scheme patterns for multi-brand electronics dealers — not an audit. It is meant to show you where the leaks are and roughly how big. The exact number only comes from reconciling your real brand statements and Tally export, which is what MarginOps does.
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