MatrixCart + Contract Price Engine
9/10
Demand Score
B2B buyers abandon when bulk ordering is slow or inaccurate; CSRs waste hours manually creating orders from spreadsheets.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$199-799
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
10 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
6. Price List and Bulk Order Complexity
Competitor Landscape
- Wholesale Club by Pixel Union
- Wholesale Pricing Discount (Wholesale Helper)
- SparkLayer B2B
- Quick Order by SolverCircle
- Wholesale Gorilla
- Clay: B2B Wholesale Pricing
Must-Have Features for MVP
Variant matrix grid with CSV paste and quick add
Price list ingestion (ERP/CSV/XLS) with validation and AI parsing
Rules engine (tiers, MOQs, case packs, incremental breaks, customer segments)
Cart Transform Function for pack/MOQ enforcement
Saved lists, re-order from past orders, quote-to-cart
Inventory and lead-time visibility with substitutions
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Checkout/platform limits on pricing overrides
- Latency at large SKU counts
- Theme/App Embed conflicts
- Accurate UOM and pack-size conversions
- ERP sync reliability
Risk Level: High
🎯 Keys to Success
- Reduce time-to-order by 60% for repeat buyers
- Increase AOV by 15% via incremental breaks and substitutes
- CSR order entry time reduced by 30%+
- P95 price compute <100ms at 50k SKUs
- <0.1% pricing discrepancy rate in production
Ready to Build This?
This hard-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.