Contract Pricing Edge Engine
10/10
Demand Score
Deals are lost or margins erode because platforms can’t reflect negotiated pricing consistently in PLPs, PDPs, and carts.
9/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$699-4k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
8 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Moderate
The Problem
2. Custom Pricing & Discount Limitations
Competitor Landscape
- Bold Custom Pricing / B2B
- Zilliant
- Pricefx
- Pricemoov
- Shopify Functions (native, limited)
- BigCommerce Price Lists (native, limited)
Must-Have Features for MVP
Visual rule builder (tiers, bundles, customer groups, time windows)
Edge cache with smart invalidation and ETagging
Shopify Functions/BigCommerce/Magento connectors
Bulk CSV/API imports and delta sync from ERP
Price simulation and A/B testing sandbox
Margin guardrails and MAP enforcement
Explain‑why pricing traces and full audit log
Quotes and quick order list pricing APIs
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Platform constraints on overriding line‑item prices at checkout
- Cache key explosion for SKU×customer×qty variants
- Currency/tax rounding parity with ERP
- Complex data imports and ongoing sync
- Sales/discount stacking edge cases
Risk Level: Low
🎯 Keys to Success
- <50ms price compute p95 at edge
- Zero theme rewrites required
- 1:1 parity with ERP price books verified by automated diff
- Rollback-in-one-click for pricing rules
- Measured uplift in conversion/AOV for logged‑in buyers
Ready to Build This?
This moderate-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.