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SmartPrice AI is an analytics plugin built into Cartble that takes the guesswork out of product pricing. Instead of setting prices manually, you define your target profit margin and your cost structure — raw materials, packaging, labor, fixed costs, and transaction fees — and SmartPrice AI calculates the recommended selling price for each product. You can review suggestions individually or apply them in bulk across your catalog.

Key capabilities

SmartPrice AI gives you a comprehensive set of tools to build and manage your pricing strategy from a single place inside the admin.

Target Margin Control

Set your desired profit margin percentage. SmartPrice AI uses this as the floor for every price recommendation.

Volume-Aware Calculations

Enter your estimated monthly sales volume so the engine can distribute fixed costs accurately across your products.

Expense Tracking

Log recurring expenses — rent, staff, packaging — as fixed costs. SmartPrice AI factors these into every price calculation.

Transaction Fee Awareness

Define your payment gateway and marketplace fees so your recommended prices already account for those deductions.

Discount Management

Create and manage promotional discounts from within the plugin without affecting your base pricing configuration.

Price Builder

Review AI-calculated prices per product, adjust individually, and apply changes to your live catalog in one action.

Smart Rounding

Enable Smart Rounding to automatically round recommended prices to the nearest .90 psychological price point (e.g., 49.90insteadof49.90 instead of 50.12), improving perceived value without manual adjustment.

How to enable SmartPrice AI

To activate the plugin, navigate to Admin → Plugins and click the SmartPrice AI card. If your current plan includes the enableSmartPrice capability, you will see an Enable toggle. Turn it on and SmartPrice AI will appear as a new section in your admin sidebar.
SmartPrice AI is available on specific Cartble plans. If you do not see it in the Plugins Manager or the Enable toggle is unavailable, visit Admin → Billing to review your current plan and upgrade if needed.

Configuration walkthrough

Once SmartPrice AI is enabled, use the following steps to set up your pricing configuration.
1

Open SmartPrice AI from the admin sidebar

After enabling the plugin, a Smart Price section appears in your admin sidebar. Click Home to see an overview of your current pricing health, then proceed to the individual configuration pages.
2

Set your target margin

Go to Smart Price → Price Builder and enter your target margin percentage — for example, 40 for a 40% profit margin. This value is used as the baseline for all price calculations.
3

Enter your estimated monthly sales volume

Still in Price Builder, enter how many units you expect to sell per month. SmartPrice AI divides your fixed costs by this number to determine the per-unit cost burden, which keeps your per-product prices accurate at scale.
4

Enable Smart Rounding (optional)

In Price Builder, toggle Smart Rounding on if you want recommended prices automatically adjusted to a .90 psychological price point (for example, 49.90insteadof49.90 instead of 50.13). This setting applies to all price recommendations across your catalog.
5

Add your recurring expenses

Navigate to Smart Price → Fixed Costs and add your ongoing expenses such as rent, staff wages, and packaging materials. Each expense entry reduces the net margin available per product and is reflected in updated price recommendations.
6

Configure transaction fees

Go to Smart Price → Transaction Fees and enter the fee rates charged by your payment gateway or marketplace. SmartPrice AI deducts these percentages from the final price calculation so your target margin is preserved after fees.
7

Review and apply recommended prices

Return to Smart Price → Price Builder to see the AI-calculated recommended price for each product based on your full cost structure. Review prices individually, make any adjustments, and click Apply to update your live product catalog.

SmartPrice AI admin pages

The plugin adds the following pages to your admin sidebar under the Smart Price section:
PagePurpose
HomeOverview dashboard of your pricing health and recent changes
Price BuilderPer-product pricing recommendations based on your full cost model
DiscountsCreate and manage promotional discounts
Fixed CostsLog recurring expenses like rent, staff, and utilities
Pricing CategoriesGroup products into pricing tiers or strategies
Transaction FeesDefine payment gateway and marketplace fee rates
PackagingTrack packaging material costs per product
Marketing CalendarSchedule pricing changes around promotional events
Update your Fixed Costs and Transaction Fees regularly — especially after renewing supplier contracts or changing payment providers. Stale expense data leads to underpriced products and eroded margins.