Small pricing errors add up fast. Discover how Miva’s Precision Pricing empowers B2B sellers to quote and sell with unmatched accuracy.
By Miva | April 21, 2025
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Download PDFIn industrial ecommerce, even small rounding errors can lead to big problems. Whether you’re selling custom-length wire, low-cost fasteners, or components priced by the gram, the difference between accurate pricing and a ballpark estimate can erode margins fast. You’ve probably felt it:
• A quoting tool that can’t handle decimals.
• A platform that struggles with high SKU counts.
• A customer service team fielding pricing questions that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
In industries where products are sold by weight, length, or fractional units, imprecise pricing isn’t just inefficient. A miscalculated quote can cost you a contract. An inaccurate price can turn a profitable order into a loss. Worse yet, pricing confusion can damage credibility with your best customers.
B2B buyers expect transparency, especially when they’re making high-volume purchases. If your ecommerce platform can't reflect real-world pricing, you're leaving money and trust on the table.
This is where Miva’s Precision Pricing feature steps in.
Let’s explore how B2B and industrial sellers can use it to improve quote accuracy, streamline bulk sales, and eliminate costly errors without writing a single line of code. For companies navigating the challenges of b2b industrial e commerce, precision pricing is a must-have.
Pricing by the pound, inch, or ounce? You need more than two decimal places.
Many legacy ecommerce systems—and even some modern platforms—limit pricing precision to two decimals. That’s fine for $20 T-shirts. But it’s a serious issue when your business sells items priced at fractions of a cent. Think: wire sold by the foot, washers sold by the thousand, or metal components priced by weight.
The workaround? Manual quoting, spreadsheet gymnastics, or inflating prices just to be safe. These workarounds are slow, risky, and prone to error. Worse, they create friction at the exact point where your buyer is ready to convert.
Miva’s pricing engine now supports up to eight decimal places, empowering sellers to quote and sell with surgical precision. This means:
• Displaying exact per-unit pricing, even for ultra-low-cost components
• Automating accurate quote generation; no rounding, no surprises
• Reducing margin leakage caused by over-discounting or undercharging
For sellers focused on efficiency and margin protection, this level of accuracy offers one of the clearest advantages of B2B e commerce: fewer manual steps, better customer experiences, and faster time to sale.
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Most ecommerce platforms were designed for simplicity—great for selling jeans or headphones, not so great when you’re managing thousands of SKUs, quoting custom orders, or pricing by weight.
Here’s the reality:
• Products that can’t be priced in round numbers
• Bulk orders that require flexible volume pricing
• Inventory that’s sold by measurement, not units
• Customers expecting quotes tailored to their specs
• Operational teams juggling spreadsheets and outdated tools just to set a price
These challenges eat into margins, create quoting delays, and frustrate your buyers. Miva solves this with four precision-first features designed for complex B2B ecommerce strategy:
Support for eight decimal places means no more “close enough” pricing. Whether you’re selling by fractional units or quoting massive bulk orders, every cent is accounted for, boosting accuracy and trust in your ecommerce experience.
High SKU counts? No problem. Miva was built for complex catalogs. You can bulk-apply pricing rules, dynamically update product charges, and avoid the headaches of manual spreadsheet uploads.
This is a massive win for:
• Auto parts ecommerce with 10,000+ SKUs
• Industrial distributors managing multiple units of measurement
• B2B sellers offering volume-based discounts
Customization shouldn’t require a dev team. With Miva, your team can configure advanced pricing rules, apply them across product categories, and run test quotes—all without touching code. That means more speed, less dependency, and lower overhead.
When quoting and checkout are built around your business rules, the customer experience improves dramatically. With Miva, sellers can:
• Display dynamic pricing tiers by customer group
• Create rules for quantity-based discounts
• Tie pricing directly into shipping and tax configurations
• Provide quote-first workflows for large orders
Simply put, it’s a smarter way to sell. But don't just take our word for it.
👉 Start Your Free Demo – Discover how precision pricing works
Miva’s Precision Pricing is a strategic tool for ecommerce sellers who need control, speed, and accuracy. Here are a few real-world scenarios where this feature makes a measurable difference:
Challenge: Selling bulk fasteners, washers, and fittings priced by weight or in high volumes, with razor-thin margins.
Miva Fix: Precision Pricing allows sellers to display accurate per-unit pricing (down to eight decimal places), apply bulk discounts automatically, and quote large orders without fear of rounding errors or margin leakage.
Challenge: Products sold by fractional volume, length, or mass—like tubing, wire, powder coatings, or adhesives—often require quotes by meter, gram, or fluid ounce.
Miva Fix: Sellers can set pricing by custom units of measurement, automatically calculate totals based on entered quantity, and ensure pricing accuracy across even the most technical orders.
Challenge: Managing catalogs with 10,000+ SKUs, each with variable pricing based on units, bundles, and customer type.
Miva Fix: Miva supports dynamic pricing structures, tiered discounts, and collection-based rules. Sellers can group products by part type or brand, then assign precise pricing strategies across the catalog—no spreadsheets needed.
Challenge: Quoting complex assemblies, made-to-order parts, or raw materials to different customer segments—often without dedicated ecommerce staff.
Miva Fix: With Miva’s no-code tools, even lean teams can manage precision pricing rules, deliver fast quotes, and customize checkout by customer type or purchase history.
It’s one more reason why Miva is a trusted solution in b2b ecommerce for manufacturers.
Your ecommerce platform should make selling easier—not more complicated.
Miva’s precision pricing engine is purpose-built to help B2B and industrial sellers:
• Save time on quoting
• Avoid manual errors
• Improve margin control
•Deliver a seamless B2B checkout experience
It’s one of the many ways Miva helps you move faster, price smarter, and grow with confidence—especially for those building a long-term b2b ecommerce strategy.
👉 Explore Use Cases – See how other industrial sellers win with Miva
A: Precision pricing is a game-changer for industrial manufacturers, auto parts sellers, and any business involved in b2b industrial e commerce. If your catalog includes components like wire, tubing, bolts, gaskets, or granular materials—anything that can’t be rounded to simple whole numbers—you’ll benefit from pricing that reflects the true cost per item or measurement. It’s also ideal for sellers offering custom quotes, bulk discounts, or fractional unit pricing.
A: Not at all. Miva is built to empower business users AND developers. With our no-code admin tools, you can configure advanced pricing rules, apply decimal precision, and launch pricing
A: Not at all. Miva is built to empower business users AND developers. With our no-code admin tools, you can configure advanced pricing rules, apply decimal precision, and launch pricing updates without relying on IT. That means your ecommerce or operations team can stay agile responding to market changes, customer needs, or supplier costs in real time.
A: Yes. Miva supports seamless integrations with major ERPs, CRMs, and quoting platforms via APIs and our robust integration framework. Whether you’re syncing pricing rules from an ERP, pulling in product weights, or feeding quotes back into your CRM, Miva’s flexible architecture ensures accurate pricing data flows where and when you need it.
A: Most ecommerce platforms were built for B2C simplicity. Miva is different. We’re designed for B2B and DTC sellers who manage complexity at scale—high SKU counts, custom pricing rules, hybrid business models, and technical products. Our native tools like Precision Pricing, dynamic shipping, and customer-specific catalogs mean fewer workarounds and more control. Plus, with no-code capabilities, your team can stay focused on strategy, not firefighting.
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