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Execution pattern
Margin floor at checkout
Refuse the order that ships below your true cost.
What executes
An order reaches checkout carrying stacked discounts or a drifted automated price.
What normally goes wrong
Native discount rules reason about price, not margin. Stacked codes and a repricer that moved overnight combine into an order that is profitable on the listing and loss-making on the invoice.
The decision
The signals available at the moment of the action, and the rule that judges them.
Signals
- Verified unit cost basis
- All discounts applied, including stacked codes
- Shipping and channel fees
- Net margin after every deduction
The gate
Refuse the order when net margin against verified cost falls below the floor, evaluated inline before the checkout token is issued.
ALLOW
Checkout completes above the floor.
ESCALATE
A borderline order waits on a merchandiser.
BLOCK
Checkout is refused; the dossier records the margin computation.
Four stages left to right. Input signals — user or agent identity, context and data, tools and resources, spend and budget, policies, history and reputation, and environment — enter the Decionis Protocol. Inside, the protocol normalizes context and intent, evaluates policies and rules, runs a deterministic risk and policy engine, and explains the reason and evidence. It emits a verdict: ALLOW (authorized), ESCALATE (needs approval or more info), or BLOCK (high risk or out of policy). The verdict drives an enforcement action: allow, block, require approval, or throttle and limit. Every decision is recorded for audit, learning, and continuous improvement.
10 policies implement this pattern
Fork one and change the thresholds. Available today on 9 platforms.
Shopify Margin Floor Guard
Never discount below margin. Holds the checkout before the payment token is issued when the cart would breach the floor.
shopify
WooCommerce Margin Floor Guard
Never discount below margin. Holds a WooCommerce checkout whose net margin would breach the encoded floor.
woocommerce
eBay Listing Margin Gate
Folds eBay final-value fees and promoted-listing rates into the margin check before a listing or price change goes live.
ebay
Salesforce Discount Approval Gate
Escalates quote discounts past the encoded band when the contract-value evidence is missing.
salesforce
Adobe Commerce Price-Drift Circuit Breaker
Catches a pricing feed or AI engine publishing a price far off the last-known-good value before shoppers see it.
adobe commerce
Commerce & Retail Ops Pack
Over-selling, margin-floor, and coupon-stacking gates for orders and fulfillment — the three that leak the most money.
bigcommerce
SaaS Ops Pack
Cloud spend, discount, and entitlement gates — stop runaway burn, margin leakage, and unsupported entitlement changes.
sdk
SOC 2 Shopify Checkout Limits
Velocity, discount, and market-eligibility gates for Shopify checkout, B2B, and POS — with audit evidence for every exception.
shopify
Related concepts
This pattern is one answer to each of these.
What to do next
The same five steps for every pattern in the library.
- Simulate this recipe
Run the policy against a realistic action in the browser. Push it past what the rules allow and watch the verdict come back. No account.
- View the signed Decision Dossier
See exactly what was decided and why: the rule that fired, the evidence it read, the policy version in force, and an Ed25519 signature you can verify yourself.
- Deploy in shadow mode
Measure what the policy would have caught on your own traffic without touching the live path. Every recipe defaults to shadow, so the first deployment carries no execution risk.
- Connect a real workflow
Point the same policy at the system where the action actually originates — a checkout, an ERP posting, a Zap, an agent's tool call.
- Share the verified result
Publish the proof: a public verification link, an embeddable badge, a PR comment, or an anonymized shadow-mode finding. This is how the next person discovers Decionis.