Automated profit protection
for ecommerce pricing.
Pricemaster automatically protects your pricing from dropping below profitable levels —
even during aggressive market changes and competitor repricing.
Set your minimum margins once and Pricemaster continuously protects profitability across your
entire catalogue using intelligent pricing rules and automated safeguards.
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Margin Floor
20%
Unsafe price blocked
Competitor
—
Our price
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Margin
—
Status
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Feature walkthrough
See Minimum Margin Protection in action
Watch how Pricemaster helps you set a profit floor, build price-band rules, and keep every automated price change inside margin-safe guardrails.
The Problem
Most repricing software will happily destroy your margins.
Traditional repricers blindly follow competitor pricing downward. The math gets ugly fast,
and you only notice when your end-of-month numbers come in.
×
Margin erosion across your bestsellers
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Loss-making sales that look fine in the dashboard
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Unsustainable pricing as competitors keep dropping
×
A race to the bottom that nobody actually wins
Pricemaster stops unsafe pricing automatically — before it ever publishes.
Without Pricemaster
The repricing death spiral
£129
42% margin
Starting price
£109
33% margin
Competitor drops first
£99
26% margin
Repricer follows down
£85
14% margin
Another competitor cuts
£72
−1% margin
You sell at a loss
⚠
Five repricing events. Margin gone. Inventory still moving — at a loss.
Core Concept
Your pricing should never become unprofitable.
Pricemaster lets you define minimum acceptable profit margins across your catalogue. No matter
what competitors do, your prices will never fall below your protected threshold.
This is your baseline protection.
Live Pricing Engine
Margin Floor In Action
Unsafe zoneProtected zone
£129 · 42% margin
← PROTECTED FLOOR · £91 · 20% margin
£60 · Loss-making
Margin Shield
Competitor £129
Pricemaster £129
Margin %
20%
Your minimum threshold
Rule enforcement
Automatic
No manual checks needed
Status
PROTECTED
Across every SKU
How It Works
Simple pricing rules. Powerful profit protection.
Four steps from blank slate to fully-protected catalogue. Most teams are live within a single
working day.
STEP 01 · Set your default minimum margin
Safety Net
Default Minimum Margin
20
%
This margin applies to all products that don't match a specific price-band rule.
Pricemaster will never reprice a product below this profit floor.
✓ Applied to 12,418 SKUs instantly. No per-product setup required.
Live Feed
Competitor Monitoring
LIVE
A
Amazon UK
£89.99
-£4
2s ago
e
eBay
£92.50
-£1
14s ago
C
Currys
£94.00
+£2
47s ago
A
Argos
£91.95
-£3
1m ago
M
Marketplace 5
£88.00
-£6
2m ago
Pricing rules, market movement and product activity all stream into the engine in real time.
Rule Enforcement
Unsafe Pricing Blocked
REPRICING ATTEMPT · 14:32:08
BLOCKED
£91.00£82.00Would yield 11% margin · floor 20%
HELD AT FLOOR · 14:32:08
PROTECTED
Live price£91.0020.0% margin · safe
Every repricing decision is audited and logged — fully transparent to your pricing team.
This Week
Margin Protection Summary
All systems healthy
Prices changed
8,142
safely repriced
Unsafe prices blocked
247
margin defended
Avg margin held
27.4%
across catalogue
Profit protected
£14,820
vs floorless run
Competitive where it pays. Protected where it doesn't.
Price Band Rules
Different products. Different margin strategies.
A £5 item and a £500 item shouldn't obey the same rules. Pricemaster lets you apply a
different minimum margin for each price band. Cheaper products keep higher margins; premium
products can flex lower if you want them to. Drag the sliders below to feel it.
Minimum Margins · Price-Band Rules
Rules
Rules are matched by product price. A matching band overrides the default margin.
£
0
→
£
10
50%
50%
£
10
→
£
20
45%
45%
£
20
→
£
50
45%
45%
£
50
→
£
100
40%
40%
£
100
→
£
300
35%
35%
£
300
→
£
1,000
30%
30%
£
1000
→
£
10,000
25%
25%
Save All Changes
Strategy in a single screen.
The thinking is simple: lower-priced items rely on percentage margin to be worth selling.
Higher-ticket items can lean on absolute pounds of profit, so the percentage can come down
while the contribution stays healthy.
50%
£0 – £10 · 50% minimum margin
Budget items need high % to be worth picking, packing and posting.
45%
£10 – £20 · 45% minimum margin
Healthy floor while still letting you stay sharp on price.
35%
£100 – £300 · 35% minimum margin
Mid-ticket items — competitive without giving margin away.
25%
£1,000+ · 25% minimum margin
High-ticket items: 25% of £1,000 is still £250 of profit.
You can create unlimited pricing tiers across your catalogue.
At Scale
Built for businesses managing thousands of SKUs.
Managing margin manually across a large catalogue is impossible. Pricemaster automates pricing
protection at scale — across every SKU, every channel, every market move.
12,418
SKUs under protection
across one workspace
7
Active price bands
override the default by range
24/7
Continuous monitoring
no manual checks required
27.4%
Average margin held
while staying competitive
Products · Margin Health
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Product
Price
Margin
Health
Audio Compact
SKU-10000
£4.99
52%
Apparel Max
SKU-10270
£12.50
47%
Home Ultra
SKU-10018
£18.99
44%
Beauty Studio
SKU-10767
£24.99
41%
Tools Core
SKU-10894
£39.00
38%
Sports Mini
SKU-10689
£59.99
36%
Outdoor Elite
SKU-10798
£89.00
34%
Kitchen Smart
SKU-10590
£129.00
28%
Lighting Premium
SKU-10220
£249.00
24%
Tech Classic
SKU-10754
£499.00
22%
Audio Pro
SKU-10769
£4.99
41%
Apparel Plus
SKU-10680
£12.50
38%
Home Lite
SKU-10830
£18.99
35%
Beauty Compact
SKU-10621
£24.99
31%
Audio Compact
SKU-10000
£4.99
52%
Apparel Max
SKU-10270
£12.50
47%
Home Ultra
SKU-10018
£18.99
44%
Beauty Studio
SKU-10767
£24.99
41%
Tools Core
SKU-10894
£39.00
38%
Sports Mini
SKU-10689
£59.99
36%
Outdoor Elite
SKU-10798
£89.00
34%
Kitchen Smart
SKU-10590
£129.00
28%
Lighting Premium
SKU-10220
£249.00
24%
Tech Classic
SKU-10754
£499.00
22%
Audio Pro
SKU-10769
£4.99
41%
Apparel Plus
SKU-10680
£12.50
38%
Home Lite
SKU-10830
£18.99
35%
Beauty Compact
SKU-10621
£24.99
31%
Why It Matters
Revenue means nothing without margin.
Most ecommerce businesses obsess over sales volume — and lose profitability through
uncontrolled pricing. Pricemaster flips the priority: sustainable growth, protected
profitability, smarter automation, controlled decisions.
Prevent accidental loss-making sales
Every repricing event passes through your margin floor before publishing — so an aggressive market move can never turn a sale into a loss.
Protect margin during price wars
When competitors slash prices in a race to the bottom, you stop matching at your floor and let them sell unprofitable inventory instead.
Maintain profitability automatically
No spreadsheet checks, no late-night fire-drills. Set the rule once and the engine enforces it across the entire catalogue.
Reduce manual pricing checks
Your team stops auditing prices line-by-line and gets back to the work that actually moves the business.
Scale pricing safely
Add new products, new categories, new marketplaces — they all inherit your protection rules automatically.
Control margin strategy globally
Change one number and your protection updates everywhere — across every SKU, channel and band.
Feature Grid
Built for modern ecommerce pricing teams.
Default Minimum Margin Rules
One number protects every SKU in your catalogue.
Dynamic Price Band Margins
Different margins for different product price ranges.
Automated Pricing Floors
Hard limits the engine cannot cross — ever.
Competitor Monitoring
Live tracking across every marketplace you sell on.
Catalogue-Wide Protection
Applies instantly to thousands of SKUs at once.
Real-Time Pricing Enforcement
Unsafe prices are blocked before they ever publish.
Unlimited Pricing Tiers
Add as many price bands as your strategy requires.
Dynamic Rule Integration
Margin floor runs underneath every dynamic rule.
Margin Health Monitoring
See exactly which SKUs are healthy, warning, or at-risk.
Shopify & Ecommerce Integrations
Native connectors for Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce and more.
In Real Time
See how Pricemaster protects margin in real time.
Scenario: a competitor drops a £119 product to £79 over a few hours. Watch what happens to
your price — and your margin — with and without Pricemaster.
Start · Competitor £119
Drop 1 · Competitor £99
Drop 2 · Competitor £89
Drop 3 · Competitor £79
Without Pricemaster
Repricer follows the floor
TRACKING
Competitor
£119.00
Your price
Cost £65.00
£119.00
45% margin
✕ Margin allowed to fall below profitable threshold.
Why ecommerce businesses need automated margin protection.
Six things every pricing team running on a large catalogue should understand before they
choose a repricing or automation platform.
01
Why repricing software can damage profitability
A repricer without margin awareness is a wrecking ball. It chases the cheapest competitor without ever asking whether the new price actually makes you money. On bestsellers this can erode hundreds of pounds of profit per day before anyone notices. Minimum margin protection software fixes this at the rule level — every price change is checked against a profit floor before it publishes.
02
Why minimum margin protection matters
Ecommerce margin protection is the difference between a healthy P&L and an unprofitable catalogue that looks fine on the surface. Volume metrics lie; margin metrics do not. Automated minimum margins enforce a discipline that humans cannot maintain across thousands of SKUs in real time.
03
How pricing automation should protect margin
Good pricing automation tracks the market aggressively, then refuses to publish any price that fails a profitability test. Pricing rules software should sit on top of repricers, not inside them. The result is a layered system: competitive at the surface, mathematically incapable of unprofitable pricing underneath.
04
How ecommerce businesses scale pricing safely
Manual pricing reviews collapse at around 200 SKUs. Past that, the only safe answer is rule-based automation with built-in pricing guardrails. Catalogue-wide protection means you can launch a thousand new SKUs on a Tuesday and know that none of them can be priced below your margin requirements by Wednesday morning.
05
Why price wars destroy profit
Price wars are won by the participant with the lowest cost structure — never by the participant with the most aggressive repricer. Ecommerce profit protection means recognising which battles to fight on price and which to surrender on price and win on margin instead.
06
Why intelligent pricing rules matter
A static minimum price is brittle: it ages badly when cost prices move, when categories shift, or when you list new products. Intelligent pricing rules express the underlying intent — "never below 25% margin" — and adapt automatically as costs and prices change. This is what pricing control for Shopify stores and other ecommerce platforms should look like in 2026.
Minimum margin protection is an automated pricing safeguard that prevents your product prices from ever falling below a profit floor you set. Pricemaster continuously enforces this rule across every SKU, so even when competitors drop their prices aggressively, your pricing can never become unprofitable.
How does Pricemaster protect profitability?
Pricemaster combines a default minimum margin with optional price-band rules. Every time the market moves, Pricemaster checks the proposed new price against your protected margin threshold. If a repricing action would push margin below your floor, the change is blocked automatically.
Can Pricemaster stop pricing below margin?
Yes — that is the core purpose of Minimum Margin Protection. No matter what competitors do or which dynamic pricing rule fires, Pricemaster will never publish a price that yields less than your configured margin.
What are price band rules?
Price band rules let you apply different minimum margin requirements to products in different price ranges. For example, you can require a 50% margin on products priced £0–£10 and a 35% margin on products priced £200–£300. Bands override the default automatically.
Can I apply different margins to different products?
Yes. You can define unlimited price bands, each with its own minimum margin. As soon as a product's price falls within a band, that band's margin applies instead of the default.
Does Pricemaster work with dynamic pricing?
Yes. Minimum Margin Protection runs underneath every dynamic pricing rule in Pricemaster. Repricing rules, competitor matching and sales velocity rules can all execute freely — but the margin floor always overrides them.
Can minimum margins work across thousands of SKUs?
Yes. Pricemaster is built for large catalogues. A single default margin can protect tens of thousands of SKUs instantly, and you can layer price-band overrides on top without writing rules per product.
Does Pricemaster support Shopify?
Yes. Pricemaster integrates natively with Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, OpenCart and Wix. Minimum Margin Protection works identically across all supported platforms.
Can I customise pricing tiers?
Yes. You can create unlimited pricing tiers with custom price ranges and margin thresholds. Tiers can be edited live and changes propagate across the catalogue immediately.
What happens if competitors massively reduce pricing?
Your pricing tracks the market down to the point where it would breach your protected margin — then it stops. Pricemaster never publishes an unprofitable price, even if it means losing the buy box on that product. Profit protection always wins.
Protect your profit
Protect your profit before competitors destroy it.
Pricemaster gives ecommerce businesses automated pricing protection at scale.
Set your margins once. Stay profitable across every SKU, every channel, every market move.