Guardrails
Guardrails decide when Parbat holds, tests or blocks a pricing move. Every move is checked against them before it can ship.
Where to change them
Section titled “Where to change them”Open Pricing Basecamp, find the Guardrails card, and choose Edit policy. Changes save automatically.
You can also ask Z in chat, for example “Raise my margin floor to 30%.”
What you can set
Section titled “What you can set”- Margin floor: the lowest gross margin a recommended price may leave you with, measured against Shopify’s cost per item. Fees and shipping aren’t subtracted, so leave room for them. It starts at 25% unless you set it during setup.
- Enforce MAP: when this is on, Parbat respects your minimum advertised price wherever one is set. To set a MAP for a product, type /map in the chat, pick the product, enter the MAP price and choose Set MAP.
- Excluded from pricing: search for a product or variant and choose Exclude from pricing. Parbat won’t recommend price changes for it.
Checks that always apply
Section titled “Checks that always apply”These protect every store and aren’t edited on the Guardrails card:
| Check | What it does |
|---|---|
| Min above cost | A recommended price stays at least 10% above cost per item. |
| Cooldown | After you act on a product, Parbat leaves it out of your Daily Briefing for at least 7 days. While a price change you shipped is still being measured, your Daily Briefing also holds new moves on that product, for up to 30 days. |
| Largest single price move | A move larger than 20% is held. Only an Owner can ship it, with Ship $X anyway. A move of up to 30% can ship normally if, in the last 14 days, a validation tested an even bigger move that did worse and a deeper validation confirmed this price. This only applies once Parbat has been watching your store for at least 30 days. |
A move can also be blocked if the product is missing a cost, its cost is above its price, its inventory isn’t tracked, it isn’t active, or it’s excluded. If its cost looks out of date, Parbat flags it for you to confirm before you ship. The move’s drawer says which check blocked it under “Why this is blocked”, and what unlocks it under “Next step”.
Price endings
Section titled “Price endings”How recommended prices end (for example .00, .95 or .99) is set separately, in Settings, Pricing, Pricing Policy: choose a Price ending mode and a Rounding bias, check the Preview, and save.