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Normalizer Kit

Enter your order profile once. Enter up to five competing rate cards. Get true all-in cost per order for each vendor at your actual volume, a twelve-month projection with seasonality, and the volume at which the ranking flips.

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Excel .xlsx · 14 tabs · formulas only, no macros · version v1.0.9, updated 2026-08-08
breakeven chartorders / month
ranking flips here $ / order 20,000 500
Quote A · cheapest past the flip Quote C · cheapest below it Quote B · never the cheapest
The vendor that is cheapest at 800 orders/month is often not the cheapest at 5,000. The workbook finds the crossover for your quotes.
true cost per order $4.33–9.32 four published rate cards · same 2,000-order profile
margin kept today

What it does

The reason quotes cannot be compared is structural, not arithmetic. Vendors slice identical work into different line items: per-order versus first-item-plus-additional picking, storage per bin versus per cubic foot versus per pallet, software billed weekly or buried in the pick fee, shipping marked up invisibly. The workbook rebuilds every quote against one order profile and reports a single comparable number, then shows you which line items are actually driving the difference.

What is inside

01The normalizer workbookOrder profile in, all-in cost per order per vendor out, for up to five vendors.
02Twelve-month projectionSeasonal volume and peak storage handled separately.
03Breakeven chartThe volume at which each vendor becomes the cheapest option.
043PL RFP template11 questions that force vendors to quote the line items they normally leave out.
0540-point red-flag checklistBuilt from the clause research behind our contract guide.
06Benchmark tabDrawn from our public dataset — 214 sourced rows across 13 vendors, each with its own source URL, every row verified 2026-08-04 or later — so you can see where a quote sits.

Who it is for

Operators running 500 to 20,000 orders a month who are choosing a 3PL, renegotiating with their current one, or building the case to leave. If you have one quote and no comparison, the workbook will not manufacture leverage you do not have. If you have three, it will tell you which one is actually cheapest at your volume, which is rarely the one with the lowest headline pick fee.

Try the method first

The full normalization method is published free, with worked examples against real rate cards: How to compare 3PL quotes apples to apples. The Kit automates it. If you would rather build it yourself from the guide, that is a legitimate outcome and the guide is written to make it possible.

$99, once. Against a 3PL contract worth thousands a month.

One payment, yours to keep. Run it against every quote you get, this year and next.

Get the Kit — $99 →
one-time · 30-day money-back guarantee

Would rather not do it at all? Send us the quotes and we will run this for you and write up the answer — the quote audit, $500 flat.

Excel .xlsx, 14 tabs, formulas only, so nothing here can run code on your machine. Verified in Google Sheets — it imports with no warning and the formulas stay live. Also opens in Apple Numbers and LibreOffice. Version v1.0.9, updated 2026-08-08.

30-day money-back guarantee, no questions — see the refund policy. Find an error in a rate or a formula and it gets published at corrections, and buyers get the corrected file: data@ratecardlab.com.

Not buying today?

The dataset behind the Kit is free and we keep re-checking it. Leave an address and you get an email when a vendor moves a published rate, a company is added, or the Kit itself is updated — nothing else, and nothing on a schedule. To come off, email data@ratecardlab.com and we delete the record.