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Invoice chase and reconciliation
Overdue invoices chase themselves on a schedule that escalates in tone, and stop the moment payment clears.
Custom codeFinance and admin
Dynamic pricing and quoting engine
Prices computed from cost, demand, competition, and margin policy, applied consistently, with every change explainable after the fact.
Starting price$5,500fixed against a written scope
Build window3 to 6 weeksfrom access and answers
Hours returned28 a monthconservative end of the range
Payback6 monthsat $38 an hour loaded
The problem
Why this exists
Pricing decided per deal by whoever is closest to it means margin varies by salesperson rather than by customer value, and nobody can reconstruct why a price was what it was.
Trigger
Quote request, catalog change, or scheduled repricing run.
The build
What it does, in order
- 01
Assemble the cost base
Landed cost, labour, and allocated overhead pulled from source rather than typed into a sheet.
- 02
Apply policy
Margin floors, volume tiers, contract terms, and customer segment rules applied in a deterministic order.
- 03
Read the market
Competitive positioning and demand signals adjust within the policy band, never outside it.
- 04
Explain every price
Each computed price carries the rule trace that produced it, so a sales objection can be answered with the actual reason.
- 05
Gate the exceptions
Anything below the margin floor requires named approval before it can be quoted.
- 06
Simulate before applying
Every policy change runs against the last quarter of real orders to show the margin impact before it goes live.
The guard rails
What stops it doing damage
This is the part that separates an automation that runs for years from one that quietly corrupts your data for a month.
- Hard margin floor that no rule combination can breach without explicit approval
- Full price history per SKU per customer, immutable and queryable
- Simulation required before any policy change reaches production
- Rate of change ceiling, so no automated rule can move a price more than a set percentage per period
Honest limits
When this is the wrong automation
You sell under about fifty distinct items at stable prices. A spreadsheet and a quarterly review is the correct engineering answer.
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