{"slug":"pricing-margin","name":"Pricing & Margin","category":"mba","tags":["pricing","finance"],"tagline":"Margin vs markup, and what a discount really costs in volume.","endpoint":"https://xearno.tools/api/v1/tools/pricing-margin","page":"https://xearno.tools/t/pricing-margin","description":"Computes gross margin and markup from cost and price — two numbers people constantly confuse — and shows the brutal volume math behind discounting at your margin.","inputSchema":{"type":"object","properties":{"cost":{"description":"Unit cost","type":"number","minimum":0.01,"default":30},"price":{"description":"Selling price","type":"number","minimum":0.01,"default":50},"discount":{"description":"Planned discount (%)","type":"number","minimum":0,"maximum":90,"default":0}},"required":[],"additionalProperties":false},"methodology":["Margin = (price − cost) ÷ price; markup = (price − cost) ÷ cost. They describe the same gap against different bases.","Discount volume math: required volume multiplier = original per-unit profit ÷ discounted per-unit profit. Because a discount reduces profit one-for-one while cost stays fixed, low-margin products need enormous volume lifts to justify small discounts.","This is unit-level analysis — it deliberately excludes demand elasticity. It answers \"what volume would I need\", not \"what volume will I get\"."],"usage":"POST https://xearno.tools/api/v1/tools/pricing-margin with a JSON body matching inputSchema."}