Precision Pricebooks & Segments (PPS)
9/10
Demand Score
Merchants are losing B2B deals and margins because they cannot expose negotiated or segment-specific pricing reliably in the storefront and checkout today.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$499-3k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
8 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
A pricing/segmentation overlay that compiles per-customer pricebooks into deterministic price functions executed at the edge. Uses platform-safe hooks (Shopify Functions/Discounts, Storefront API, Big
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 5 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- Bold Custom Pricing
- Shopify Plus Scripts/Functions
- Pricefx
- Zilliant
- Intelligems
- BlackCurve
Must-Have Features for MVP
Edge-executed price functions with signed tokens
Unlimited segments with rule builder (CRM, ERP, usage signals)
Contract/pricebook import and versioning with audit trail
Quote-to-order and approval workflows
A/B testable pricing rules with guardrails (min margin)
Real-time eligibility badges and volume-break calculators on PDP/Cart
Checkout validation app to prevent price mismatches
APIs and connectors for ERP/CRM (NetSuite, Salesforce, Dynamics)
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Checkout parity across sales channels
- Platform API rate limits
- Complex tax/shipping interactions with discounts
- Data governance for contract prices
- Edge cache invalidation on price changes
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- <50 ms end-to-end pricing evaluation
- Zero-SKU duplication and no theme rewrites required
- Proven parity between PDP and checkout
- Rapid onboarding via CSV/ERP sync
- Clear uplift: higher conversion and margin on targeted accounts
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This hard-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.