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This is a naive view but I'll let someone else elaborate
by Pucilowski 3y ago
This is a naive view but I'll let someone else elaborate
- hartator 3y agoThe difficulty of pricing lies on actually pricing things, there is no missing technical brick, but missing knowledge.
- makeitdouble 3y agoI think recognizing it's a different problem than billing and have it as a different entity is important. And of course that knowledge needs to be materialized into a technical block. Now, I'm totally with you that calling that an "engine" is misleading for 99.9% of businesses. In most cases that's a configuration file, or a business class if they're dealing with more user behavior check, calculations or conversions.
- hartator 3y agoYes definitely. The domain of "Pricing" things is a giant industry; i.e., the accounting and finance industry.
- shermantanktop 3y agoDid you previously get a new-customer discount on a previous order? What promotions are in effect? Are you eligible for that promotion based on your location or customer type? Are there bundle discounts that can apply? If you build an order, can we recommend eligible offers based on what is in the order already? That'll be a fun config file.
- hartator 3y agoI am sure this doesn’t solve this though. It’s hard question to answer on individual basis, require some complex logic, and for sure some coding. You won’t be able to solve this with a “Pricing Stack”. Unfortunately, pricing is unsexy, complex, full unknowns, no easily testable, and odd.
- graphememes 3y agoThat's precisely what this type of tool targets fixing.