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Profit Governance

Profit Floor

By Herzel Mishel · Founder, Agentis · Last reviewed May 5, 2026

Definition

The minimum gross margin required before an order is confirmed at checkout. Orders falling below the profit floor are blocked, modified, or redirected.

A profit floor is the minimum acceptable gross margin threshold configured for checkout enforcement. Unlike traditional margin targets that are monitored retroactively, a profit floor is enforced in real-time at the point of transaction. Agentis evaluates each checkout against the configured profit floor — factoring in applied discounts, current COGS from NetSuite, freight zone costs, and FX rates — and blocks or redirects any order that falls below it. Profit floors can be configured per SKU category, freight zone, promo type, or any combination, giving merchants granular control over their minimum acceptable profitability per transaction.

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Real-time visibility into per-order, per-SKU, and per-channel profitability using live data from ERP, logistics, and FX systems.

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Profit Governance

A systematic framework for enforcing profitability rules across every transaction in real-time, ensuring no order ships below acceptable margin thresholds.

More in Profit Governance

→Promo Abuse→Negative Margin Order→Checkout Enforcement→Propensity Modeling→Profit Firewall→Margin Governance
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