Agentis Solution
Minimum Advertised Price Enforcement for Shopify Orders
Set per-SKU MAP floors and have every order where a protected product sold below its floor flagged or held before it ships, with an Evidence Ledger record for vendor compliance reviews.
The Problem
If you sell brands under MAP agreements, your obligation is concrete: protected products must not be advertised or sold below the 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 at checkout, and you won't know until a brand's compliance team emails you, or pulls your authorization. MAP violations strain vendor relationships, jeopardize reseller status, and can cost you the right to carry a line. 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 check to every Shopify order. You define a minimum advertised price per SKU (or per vendor catalog), and within 60 seconds of each order being placed, Agentis compares the price each protected SKU actually sold at, after coupons, automatic discounts, app-based promos, and loyalty redemptions, against its floor. When a line breaches MAP, the order is flagged with the breaching discount and a recommended fix, or held before fulfillment under rules you approve, so it does not ship unreviewed. Every check is written to the Evidence Ledger with the SKU, the floor, the discounts applied, and the outcome, giving you a record you can share with a brand's compliance team. To be clear about scope: Agentis does not change the prices shown on your storefront or at checkout. What it gives you is detection on the first breaching order, so you can fix the promotion in Shopify before it spreads, and the ability to stop a breaching order before it ships.
Key Benefits
- Catch every order where a MAP-protected SKU sold below its floor, within 60 seconds
- Hold breaching orders before fulfillment so they don't ship unreviewed
- Find the promotion causing a breach on the first order, not after a brand complains
- Update per-SKU floors as a rule change when vendor terms shift, with no catalog rework
- Produce a vendor-ready record of MAP checks on demand
Platform Features
- —Per-SKU and per-vendor-catalog MAP floor configuration
- —Per-order check of the resolved discount stack against each SKU's MAP floor
- —Flag or hold-before-fulfillment actions on MAP breaches
- —Evidence Ledger record with SKU, floor, applied discounts, and outcome per order
- —Effective-dated MAP floors for scheduled vendor changes
- —Flag-only mode to see which current promotions already breach MAP
Built for
Brand-compliance and vendor-relations owners at Shopify Plus retailers and authorized resellers who carry MAP-governed brands and must keep prices above per-vendor floors.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is MAP enforcement and where does Agentis fit?
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 promotion or discount combination drops a protected SKU below that floor. MAP breaches usually happen when discounts stack at checkout, a promo plus a coupon plus loyalty points, and Shopify's native discount settings cannot express a per-SKU price floor. Agentis fits after the order is placed: within 60 seconds it checks the price each protected SKU actually sold at against its floor, and flags or holds a breaching order before it ships. The breach is visible on the first order rather than after a vendor finds it, so you can correct the promotion in Shopify quickly. Every check is logged in the Evidence Ledger, which gives you a vendor-agreement audit trail.
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 rules rather than baked into product data, updating them when a vendor revises terms is a single rule change, not a bulk catalog migration. Each SKU on an order is checked against its own floor, so an order mixing products from two vendors with different agreements is handled line by line rather than with one blended rule. The check covers the full resolved discount stack, including coupons, automatic discounts, app-based promos, and loyalty redemptions. Begin by loading floors for the vendor whose compliance team is most active, run flag-only mode to see which current promotions already breach, then extend the floors across your remaining MAP-governed brands.
What does Agentis do when an order breaches MAP?
It takes the action you configured. A flag lets the order continue while alerting your team with the SKU, the floor, and the discount that caused the breach, plus a recommended fix to the promotion. A hold stops the order before fulfillment, so it does not ship until someone decides to release it, adjust it, or cancel it under your policy. Either way, the event is logged in the Evidence Ledger with the SKU, the floor, the discounts applied, and the outcome. Agentis does not change prices at checkout, so the most important follow-up is fixing the promotion or discount setting in Shopify that allowed the breach, which the flag points you to. Choose the action per vendor catalog based on how strictly each brand's compliance team treats violations, and test it in flag-only mode first.
Can I prove MAP compliance to a brand's compliance team?
You can show them exactly what happened. Every MAP check is logged in the Evidence Ledger with the SKU, the floor in effect, the discounts applied, and the outcome. When a vendor's compliance team asks, you can export the record showing which orders were checked, which breached, and what you did about each one: held, corrected, or released with a reason. That turns MAP compliance from a verbal assurance into a documented process. Because floors are effective-dated, the record also shows which floor applied on the date in question, which matters when a vendor changed terms mid-year. Records from flag-only mode can additionally show that you identified and fixed breaching promotions. When a brand asks, filter the export to their SKUs and the period under review so you hand over exactly what was requested.
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Key Concepts
Profit Governance
Profit Floor
The minimum margin an order must clear after discounts, COGS, freight, fees, and FX are counted. Orders that fall below the profit floor are flagged for review or automatically held before they ship.
Profit Governance
Policy Engine
The configurable rules layer of a profit firewall, where finance teams declaratively define margin floors, discount limits, MAP rules, and other enforcement criteria.
Profit Governance
Promo Margin Governance
Margin rules applied specifically to promotional orders, the fastest-moving and highest-risk category for margin erosion: each discounted order is checked against a margin floor, and below-floor orders are flagged or held before they ship.
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