Shopify Plus × Edge Pricing with Profit Floor Enforcement
Shopify Plus edge pricing with profit floor enforcement: sub-10ms margin evaluation on every checkout via Shopify Functions. No theme changes, no latency impact.
Shopify Plus merchants set prices and discounts in one system but have no mechanism to enforce a minimum margin at the point of sale. Prices are set by merchandising. Discounts are created by marketing. Shipping rules are configured by ops. COGS live in the ERP. Nobody owns the intersection where all four meet — the checkout — and the result is that orders routinely confirm below the margin the business needs to be profitable. The existing Shopify Plus toolkit (Scripts, Functions, automatic discounts) is powerful for creating pricing logic but has no concept of cost. A Shopify Script can apply a 30% discount but cannot check whether that discount makes the order unprofitable. A Shopify Function can modify the cart but cannot query COGS from an external source in real time. The checkout processes every order at whatever price the customer sees, regardless of the margin implications.
Agentis deploys a profit-floor enforcement layer at the Shopify Plus edge using Checkout Extensibility and Shopify Functions. Every order is evaluated against live COGS, shipping costs, and payment fees before it confirms. The evaluation runs server-side in under 10ms, so customers experience zero latency. If an order falls below your configured profit floor — whether due to a deep discount, a stacked promo, a high-cost shipping destination, or a COGS increase — Agentis can block the checkout, strip the deepest discount, modify the cart, or flag for manual review. This is not a reporting layer; it is an enforcement layer that prevents unprofitable orders from being created in the first place.
Agentis deploys as a Shopify Function using the Checkout Extensibility API. The Function executes server-side on Shopify's edge infrastructure, evaluating the cart against a pre-cached cost model that includes COGS (synced from your ERP), estimated shipping (from ShipStation or rate tables), and payment method fees (from Stripe). The evaluation uses the Cart Transform API for discount modifications and the Payment Customization API for payment-method-level enforcement. All enforcement decisions are logged via a post-checkout webhook to the Agentis analytics pipeline. P99 latency is consistently under 8ms on production workloads.
Agentis pre-caches cost data in a Shopify metafield structure that the Function can read at execution time. The cache is updated continuously by a background process that syncs with your ERP. This architecture allows the Function to resolve costs without any external network call, which is why latency stays under 10ms.
Agentis supports four enforcement actions: hard block (prevent checkout completion), soft warning (display a message but allow completion), discount modification (strip the deepest discount to bring margin above floor), and flag-only (log the violation without any customer-facing action). You configure the action per rule, and most merchants start with flag-only.
Yes. Agentis supports B2B checkout with separate profit floors for B2B and DTC. B2B orders can have different floor thresholds, different enforcement actions, and different COGS models (wholesale vs retail cost) configured independently.
Because Agentis runs as a Shopify Function on Shopify's edge infrastructure, it scales automatically with Shopify's own checkout capacity. There is no external API call bottleneck. We have tested at 50,000+ concurrent checkouts with no latency degradation.
Any profit floor that lives upstream of checkout — in a BI dashboard, a pricing tool, or a nightly report — is a lagging indicator. By the time the report runs, the margin-negative orders have already shipped. Shopify Plus edge pricing is the only layer where you can evaluate the final cart, after all discounts, shipping selections, and payment choices, with the full cost picture in hand. Enforcing the profit floor at the edge means no order is ever confirmed below your floor in the first place, which is structurally different from catching it after the fact. Edge pricing turns the profit floor from a KPI into a guardrail.
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