real-time product & pricing engine for a leading digital print hub

Pricing lived across many tools and teams. Quotes took minutes, sometimes hours; traffic spikes from partners slowed everything down. Misconfigured specs created prepress tickets, waste and delays. Know-how was buried in PDFs and emails; new users learned by trial and error.

We built a balanced, real-time platform that feels instant — even under heavy load:

• Real-time pricing engine: Combines materials, capacity, finishing, shipping into a single price in milliseconds; pulls live inputs from ERP/MIS and inventory.
• Refined load balancing & caching: Multi-region routing, autoscaling and edge caching keep response times low during traffic peaks (thousands of requests per second).
• Guided configuration (Web2Print): Only valid combinations are shown; artwork checks and specs are auto-validated before add-to-cart.
• Open for the market: Public calculator for agencies/resellers; partner APIs for automated quoting and bulk uploads.
• Integrated learning hub: Bite-size tutorials, validations and examples embedded in the flow reduce mistakes and raise data quality.
• Click-to-production: Orders flow straight into prepress & production (JDF/JMF/RIP), with status tracking to delivery.
• Governance & trust: GDPR, audit trails, price versioning, and transparent cost drivers.

• Quotes in ~3–5 seconds (down from minutes) — even at peak traffic.
• Time-to-order −80–90%; fewer back-and-forth emails.
• Prepress tickets −40–60% thanks to valid combinations + inline checks.
• Waste −20–30% through correct specs and better upstream data.
• More margin control: capacity-aware pricing and live material costs.
• Happier customers: self-serve, always-on calculator; learning hub shortens onboarding and improves artwork quality.
• Sustainability add-ons: optional CO₂ estimate per job and smarter gang-runs for fewer make-readies.
• Reliability: 99.99% uptime; P95 latency <200 ms during campaigns.