Turn Plumbing and HVAC Rebate Programs into an Engine for Growth

Real-time, accurate rebate data that drives profitable growth and builds closer partnerships.

Customer Rebate Management
for Plumbing and HVAC Suppliers

Growth in the plumbing and HVAC industry means expanding your distribution channels, becoming a supplier of choice and mastering the art of competitive pricing.

Attractive customer rebate programs can help your business achieve all three goals. Managed properly, customer rebates encourage positive buying behaviors from your customers, but in practice, they’re very hard to manage – especially if you’re using spreadsheets.

Enable’s collaborative platform lets you turn customer rebates into a strategic engine of growth for you and your customers. With full visibility of all your customer rebate agreements, plus automated accruals and real-time reporting, you can work strategically with your customers to build their business and yours.

Reduce Rebate Admin. Increase Rebate Visibility.

Rebate Allocation Transparency

Incentivize the right behaviors at branch
level and establish trust by giving transparency
around rebate allocation.

Trading Agreement Management

Utilize our partner portal to remove admin and ambiguity in agreements with robust sign-off and to view and upload transactional data.

Through Margin Reports

Get an accurate and up-to-date
view of through margin for you and
your partners.

Centralized Deal Repository

Manage all your rebate programs in one place and share with colleagues as needed.

Accurate Rebate Accruals and Forecasting

Granular accruals and forecasting of rebate income let you manage cashflow better and plan more effectively.

Seamless ERP Integration

No more risky and time-consuming re-keying of data. Enable automatically retrieves master data and other info from your ERP.

Why Enable for Plumbing and HVAC Suppliers?

Gain Full Visibility into Your
Rebate Programs

Enable stores all your deals in one place, so you can view your rebate and incentive programs at any level of granularity – by customer, product line, SKU, deal type, branch and more.

Go to Market Stronger Together

Enable gives you the data, insights and collaboration tools to craft win-win deals together with your customers, so you all go to market stronger.

Easily Calculate and Pay Rebates

Modeling complex deals in standard ERP systems can be challenging, resulting in fine details getting lost. With Enable, you can model even the most complex deal terms, ensuring you always pay out the right amount.

Avoid Friction Over Rebate Claims

When rebate terms aren’t clear to all parties, you can wind up in disputes over how much is owed. With Enable, you work with your customers to review, discuss and approve deals – removing friction.

Accrue and Forecast
Rebates Accurately

Poor insight into rebates owed can lead to inaccurate financial reporting, forecasting and disclosure. With Enable, you can accrue and forecast rebate payments accurately and in real time.

Transforming Customer Rebate Management
in the Plumbing and HVAC Industry

Accurate, timely, and strategic rebate management for VAMAC.

VAMAC moved from using error-prone spreadsheets to Enable.

Enable can handle various rebate types without manual data manipulation.

Enable reduced the time spent on monthly and quarterly reconciliations.

Collaboration is improved, reducing multiple reviews and manual data entries.

Rebate calculations are instant, speeding up the financial reporting process.

Enable facilitates in-depth rebate analysis, helping VAMAC optimize strategies.

From an opaque system and missed rebates to trustworthy data and stronger cashflow management

Difficult to capture forward-looking information about when rebates would be earned

Rebate revenue forecasts could not be confidently submitted to the leadership team

$500,000 in rebates earned was not received, driving a search for a better solution

More proactive with vendors about rebates owed, backed up with solid data

Closer alignment with suppliers’ business plans, leading to win-win deals

Ability to track and forecast rebates for easier cashflow management and decision-making

A major player in the plumbing and HVAC market is also a leader in rebate management

Canada’s leading national distributor of plumbing, HVAC/R and PVF products

Coast-to-coast network of over 220 branches supported by a streamlined supply chain

Largest inventory in the country of leading-brand faucets and fixtures

Enable’s interface and workflow allow easy collaboration between Purchasing and Finance

All trade agreements are documented in a central repository, creating a single source of truth

A shared digital workspace allows agreements to be reviewed and discussed with suppliers

From manual rebate calculations that tied up time to a growth engine supported by automated rebate management

Thousands of complex rebate terms between 800+ suppliers and 850 distributors

All rebate calculations were managed manually in Excel by a team of four people

No bandwidth to build supplier relationships and negotiate better deals

Automated rebate management processes with Enable

Scaled from $31bn to $45bn in collective revenue while remaining operationally efficient

Continued to return 100% of rebate earned to its members

Group of integrations. Salesforce, Zoho, Epicor, Sage, SAP, Pipedrive, HubSpot.

The Enable
Integration Ecosystem

Easily integrate with any ERP, CRM or BI tools. We’re already working with a wide range of tools, and we’re connecting to more every day. Here are some our customers are already using:

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Customer Rebate Management
for Plumbing and HVAC Suppliers