If you want a quick margin win on Amazon, start with your chargebacks.
By Ant Finch · July 7, 2026 · Curated by George's Blog
If you want a quick margin win on Amazon, start with your chargebacks.
Not the actual dispute, the reason it's happening.
Here's a simple process to run this week.
Step 1
Pull your last 6 months of deductions from Vendor Central.
Step 2
Categorise every chargeback by violation type.
ASN non-compliance.
PO confirmation.
Labelling.
Prep issues.
Step 3
Identify your top 3 violation types by value not volume.
Where is the most money going?
Step 4
For each one, ask a single question.
Is this happening because of a process failure or a knowledge gap?
Process failure.. ASN timing, PO windows are not being followed.
These are fixable this week.
Knowledge gap.. the team are not clear on minimum expectations, or the rules have changed and nobody updated the process.
Also fixable..just needs someone to own it.
Step 5
Assign one owner to each root cause and set a 30 day target to reduce it.
The vendors fixing the upstream cause stop paying the same deduction every month. That's the difference between managing chargebacks and eliminating them.
What's your biggest chargeback violation type?
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