Per-account messaging pricing dial

The only screen that ever shows base cost and markup: per-rate pricing for one account, plus month-to-date usage with revenue, cost and margin.

What it is

A platform-owner-only panel where each messaging rate (email send, text out, text in, call minute) can be given a profit percentage over cost or left at the platform default retail. The customer's own pricing page shows effective prices with no trace of cost or markup.

Also called: what do texts cost me · sms pricing · email rates · usage margin · markup

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Per-account messaging pricing dial
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Rate rows with base cost, the profit-percent input, resulting price, margin, and the '$10 buys 384 texts' benchmark, over the month-to-date revenue/cost/margin strip. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1Each rate row shows base cost, default retail, the current price and the resulting margin.
  2. 2The dial is expressed as PROFIT percent — type 20 and keep $2.00 of every $10 — while the database stores markup over cost, with the conversion done in the UI.
  3. 3Profit is clamped below 95%, since 100% would mean an infinite price.
  4. 4A live benchmark previews how many texts or emails $10 buys at the edited price, mirroring what the customer sees.
  5. 5Month-to-date usage shows sends, revenue, our cost and margin, with a per-month history beneath.
Why we built it

The panel's header sets the boundary: this is 'the ONLY UI that ever renders base cost or markup — the tenant's own Comms & Pricing page shows effective prices with no trace of either ("invisible to the tenant — we run it").' The profit-vs-markup conversion exists because the stored maths is not intuitive: 'The UI speaks PROFIT % — share of every dollar the tenant spends… 20% markup only keeps $1.67/10.'

The problem
  • Pricing an account required editing raw rate rows.
  • Thinking in markup-over-cost produced accidental mispricing.
  • There was no month-to-date view of what an account's messaging actually earned or cost.
Sound familiar?
What you get
An account can be priced deliberately, with the margin visible while editing.
The customer sees a clean per-message price and nothing about cost.

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