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title: "Dynamic Pricing for E-commerce | AimRank"
url: https://www.aimrank.io/products/dynamic-pricing/
description: "Move prices to protect margin - with elasticity you can see and guardrails that keep every move fair and legal. AI prototype from €1,690."
language: en
updated: 2026-10-09
---

[Products · #18 · Operations & Forecasting](https://www.aimrank.io/products/)

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# Dynamic Pricing for E-commerce

Move prices to protect margin - with elasticity you can see and guardrails that keep every move fair and legal.

scaffold from **€1,690**

## How it works

01

### Backtest before touching prices

Elasticity estimated from your own order history, with error bars. You see projected impact on real past data before a single live move.

02

### Watch the signals

Competitor prices, stock cover, traffic, seasonality - assembled per SKU. Conflicting signals hold the price instead of guessing.

03

### Move within guardrails

Margin floors, max daily moves, category rules, Omnibus Directive 30-day-low compliance, one price for everyone. Guardrails are code you approve.

04

### Log, learn, override

Every move carries its reason and signals. Category managers override in one click - and overrides feed the model. Weekly margin report.

## Methodology reference

The published method this build is based on, and what it did in production.

**Zalando** runs forecast-then-optimize pricing across 5M+ articles in 12 EU markets: \~6% higher profit across 23 A/B tests.

Forecast-then-optimize pricing · as reported by [arXiv ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13741)

Referenced for methodology only. AimRank is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a customer of these companies; each links to its own public source. Sources last checked September 2026.

## The Four Guarantees™ - this build

The scaffold wires all four in. The PoC proves them on your data, as of that day. Only Implementation keeps them true over time: watched, drift-checked, with recourse.

### Measured value

+2-4% blended margin at reference volume - the agreed number (conservative), validated by backtest on your order history before go-live.

### Defensible

Every price move logged with reason and signals; Omnibus Directive 30-day-low built in; no personalized pricing; guardrails as reviewable code.

### Self-improving

Elasticity re-estimated weekly from your own sales; stale competitor feeds flagged; SKUs auto-held when signals conflict or data is thin.

### Yours & everywhere

Wired to your platform - Shopify, PrestaShop or custom. Full source. MCP endpoint for category managers' tools.

## The number, sized honestly

Reference buyer: Lithuanian or Baltic e-shop - 1,000-20,000 SKUs, real competitor pressure, prices currently moved by hand once a quarter (if at all).

**+2-4%** blended margin - the agreed number (conservative)

**100%** of price moves logged with reason and signals

**0** personalized prices - same price for every visitor, always

**\~2 mo** payback at the PoC price, reference volume

## Three ways to own it

| Tier | What you get | Price | |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | |
| **Scaffolding** ★ | The full repo - elasticity estimator, guardrail engine, Omnibus Directive compliance module, backtest harness, MCP server. Reference run on public retail data. | **€1,690** | |
| **PoC** ★★RECOMMENDED | Elasticity estimated and backtested on your order history - projected margin impact with error bars, guardrails drafted with your team. Code + quality report yours. No live price is touched at PoC. | from**€5,000** | |
| **Implementation** ★★★ | Production: supervised repricing live within guardrails, competitor feeds, override workflow, weekly elasticity retraining, monthly margin report - the agreed number (conservative) attaches here. | from **€15,000**\+ from €900/month assurance | |

★ = engagement depth. **PoC is the recommended path**: quality proven on your data before production money. The PoC carries no performance guarantee by design; the agreed number (conservative) attaches at Implementation, informed by the PoC report.

## What we don't promise

**Dynamic pricing is a margin tool, not a magic revenue dial.** We backtest on your history before touching a live price, ship error bars with every elasticity estimate, and hold SKUs where the data is too thin to justify a move - you'll see exactly how many. And two things we won't build on principle: personalized prices per visitor, and dark patterns around the Omnibus Directive 30-day-low rule. The guardrails aren't decoration - they're the product.

## Ready to see your own number?

Request the build: within 48h you get a personal reply with the value sized to your volume.

No commitment · reply within 48h · your data stays in the EU