PriceGraph: Contract & Tiered Pricing at the Edge
9/10
Demand Score
Merchants miss B2B deals or lose margin because they can’t express customer-specific tiers cleanly without stacking apps or manual overrides.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$199-999
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
45 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Moderate
The Problem
PriceGraph is a low-latency pricing engine that centralizes contract pricing, customer-specific lists, volume tiers, bundles, and promotions. Policies are authored as human-readable rules and compiled
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 4 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- Bold Custom Pricing/Wholesale
- Shopify B2B price lists (Plus)
- SparkLayer B2B pricing
- Pricefx (enterprise)
- BlackCurve/Prisync (pricing tools)
Must-Have Features for MVP
Rule builder with policy-as-code and versioning
Customer/segment price lists and volume tiers
Bundle/kit pricing and margin floors
Quote generation and approval, convert to order
Latency budget <50ms at edge for price lookups
What-if simulation and audit trails
Connectors to ERP/CRM and import from spreadsheets
A/B testing and rollback of pricing policies
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Interoperability with other discount/Function apps
- Tax and rounding consistency across locales
- Edge cache coherency during frequent price updates
- ERP sync latency and conflict resolution
Risk Level: Minimal
🎯 Keys to Success
- Measured increase in B2B conversion at correct pricing
- Fewer pricing conflicts/double-discount incidents
- Consolidation of discount apps to one engine
- Stable sub-100ms cart/checkout performance
Ready to Build This?
This moderate-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.