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when was the last time you looked at your ups agreement how can you get the cheapest ups shipping rates I'm Brian from refund retriever most shippers find agreements too complex are structured in a way that is too confusing to understand most companies only view the discount incentives and don't consider any other aspects of pricing so let's go over the UPS Agreement structure and pricing terms we're also going to give you some tips to get the best UPS agreement for your company first of all keep in mind every part of your UPS contract is negotiable you can renegotiate at any time with UPS never wait for your agreement to end this could cost you money in the long run so the first page of most UPS carrier agreements consists of the contract terms and the appropriate signatures the biggest takeaways from page 1 of the UPS Agreement are the following so incentives and a minimum rates are based on the most recent UPS daily rates new agreements supersede all previous agreements and either party may terminate the UPS agreement anytime upon the 30 days with prior written notice so let's go over the UPS addendum 8 so this section is more important than most people realize the UPS Agreement incentives are only available to the locations and account numbers approved and identified in this addendum a addendum B so this is going to contain your incentive terms so the incentives are split into two categories guarantee discounts and like the tier incentives guarantee discounts apply regardless of your volume and these discounts they're set as a percentage off the published daily rates they don't increase in discount percentage with higher volumes like tier incentives so these are broken down by service weights and zones UPS ground and commercial are generally separate so next we have the portfolio tier incentives so these are a set of discounts they're not guaranteed in a reduction of the cost of your package portfolio tier incentives are basically discounts than an additional percentage off your daily published rates these are discounts that are in addition to the guaranteed discount incentives a client can expect to see six to seven shipping volume levels here so you're shipping volume levels based on the gross weekly revenue this is the pre discount of Transportation charges from the past year finding the appropriate level is key here this is where reporting and analytics comes in really handy ori from the tree ver has a ton of reporting that can help for this and summary it's crucial to understand UPS wants all parts of your shipping business any down terms of volume can affect what tier discount applies I always recommend trying to get the guaranteed discount levels as high as possible and having less of your overall discount apply to the shipping volume so stay tuned for part two of our UPS Agreement blog and video series if you have any questions about your UPS contracts give us a call you