Agentis Solution
Minimum Advertised Price Enforcement for Shopify Checkout
Set per-SKU MAP floors and reject any discount combination that would push a protected product below its advertised price — enforced at checkout, with a vendor-agreement audit trail.
The Problem
If you sell brands under MAP agreements, your obligation is concrete: the price a customer sees at checkout must not fall below the advertised floor each vendor sets. Shopify's native discount tools were not built for this. A single sitewide promo, a stacked coupon, or an automatic discount can quietly drop a MAP-protected SKU under its floor, and you won't know until a brand's compliance team emails you — or pulls your authorization. The risk is not abstract: MAP violations strain vendor relationships, jeopardize your reseller status, and can cost you the right to carry the line at all. Tracking per-SKU floors across hundreds of products and every possible discount combination by hand is not realistic.
How Agentis Solves It
Agentis adds a MAP enforcement layer to Shopify checkout. You define a minimum advertised price per SKU (or per vendor catalog), and Agentis evaluates every cart at the validation hook against the discount stack that actually resolved — coupons, automatic discounts, app-based promos, and loyalty redemptions combined. When a combination would breach a SKU's MAP floor, Agentis rejects or trims it in under 10ms, so the protected product never sells below its advertised price. Every enforcement event is logged with the SKU, the floor, the discounts applied, and the outcome, giving you a vendor-agreement audit trail you can hand to a brand's compliance team on request. MAP floors are decoupled from the catalog, so updating a floor when a vendor changes terms is a policy edit, not a product-data migration.
Key Benefits
- Hold every MAP-protected SKU above its advertised floor at checkout, automatically
- Reject or trim discount combinations that would breach MAP — across coupons, automatic discounts, and loyalty
- Protect vendor relationships and reseller authorization with provable compliance
- Update per-SKU floors as a policy change when vendor terms shift, with no catalog rework
- Produce a vendor-ready audit trail of every MAP decision on demand
Platform Features
- —Per-SKU and per-vendor-catalog MAP floor configuration
- —Real-time evaluation of the full discount stack against each SKU's MAP floor at checkout
- —Reject-or-trim enforcement that keeps the customer's best compliant offer while removing the breaching combination
- —Vendor-agreement audit log with SKU, floor, applied discounts, and outcome per order
- —Effective-dated MAP policies so scheduled vendor floor changes activate automatically
- —Shadow mode to surface which current promotions are already breaching MAP before you enforce
Built for
Brand-compliance and vendor-relations owners at Shopify Plus retailers and authorized resellers who carry MAP-governed brands and must keep advertised prices above per-vendor floors.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is MAP enforcement and why does it need a checkout layer?
MAP (Minimum Advertised Price) is the floor a brand sets for how low its product may be advertised or sold. Enforcement means making sure no discount combination drops a protected SKU below that floor. It needs a checkout layer because MAP breaches usually happen when discounts stack — a promo plus a coupon plus loyalty points — and that only resolves at checkout. Agentis evaluates the resolved stack per SKU at the validation hook and blocks any combination that breaches the floor, which native Shopify discount settings cannot express.
Can I set different MAP floors for different SKUs and vendors?
Yes. MAP floors are configured per SKU, and you can manage them per vendor catalog so an entire brand's products inherit the right floors. Because floors are stored as policy rather than baked into product data, updating them when a vendor revises terms is a single policy edit with effective dates, not a bulk catalog migration.
What does Agentis do when a cart would breach MAP?
It enforces your configured action in under 10ms. The default is to trim the breaching discount combination so the customer keeps their best MAP-compliant offer and the SKU stays above floor; alternatively, Agentis can reject the combination outright. Either way the protected product never completes a sale below its advertised price.
Can I prove MAP compliance to a brand's compliance team?
Yes. Every MAP evaluation is logged with the SKU, the floor in effect, the discounts that were applied, and the outcome. When a vendor's compliance team asks for evidence, you can export the audit trail showing that protected SKUs were held above their floors at checkout — turning MAP compliance from a verbal assurance into documented proof.
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