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Parcel pricing assigns per-carat rates that adjust by volume tier, buyer group, and stone category. When your buyer views a 10-carat lot of heated Mozambique rubies, they see a per-carat price specific to their account tier. If they add a 50-carat parcel of the same material, the rate drops according to your volume rules. You define as many tiers as your business needs, typically 3-5 per stone category. Pricing updates propagate instantly to every buyer session, so there are no stale PDF quotes floating through inboxes. The engine also supports price-on-request flags for rare or high-value stones above a carat or dollar threshold you set. AGTA members, GJEPC-registered exporters, and long-term accounts each get their own group pricing without manual overrides. The system logs every price a buyer was shown at the time of order, protecting you in disputes.

Yes. The memo workflow lets buyers request stones on memo directly from product pages. Your team gets a notification with the buyer's trade references, requested stones, and total parcel value. You approve, counter, or decline with one click. Once approved, the system sets a return window, typically 5 to 10 business days per AGTA trade customs. Automated reminders fire to the buyer at day 5 and day 8. Overdue memos trigger an alert to your accounts team with the total capital at risk. Every memo transaction logs stone IDs, ship dates, carrier tracking, and return status. Your dashboard shows total memo exposure in real time. For dealers carrying $200K-$500K in memo inventory at any point, this visibility alone can recover $30K-$60K in tied-up capital per quarter by tightening return compliance.

We integrate with GIA, AGS, IGI, GRS, Gubelin, SSEF, and AGL report verification systems. When a buyer views a product page, the cert number pulls the grading report data, including color grade, clarity, carat weight, treatment status, and origin determination. For GIA reports, this includes the full 4Cs breakdown and any treatment disclosures. GRS and Gubelin integrations pull origin opinions (Mogok, Kashmir, Colombia, Paraiba) which are critical for colored stone wholesale. If a lab does not offer a public API, we build a manual cert upload system with structured fields so your team can enter report data and attach PDF scans. All cert data is stored in your platform's schema, which means it powers search filters and structured data markup for Google.

New buyer registration collects business name, tax ID or resale certificate, trade references, and optional AGTA, GJEPC, AWDC, or JTA membership numbers. Your admin team reviews each application before wholesale pricing unlocks. For AGTA members, we can cross-reference the AGTA member directory to auto-verify active membership status. GJEPC-registered exporters submit their IEC code for validation. Buyers without trade organization membership provide two industry references that your team contacts. The entire flow is branded to your company and takes 24-48 hours on average. Denied applicants see retail pricing only or receive a polite redirect. This gating prevents unauthorized dealers from screenshotting your wholesale prices and protects your authorized retailer network.

Initial builds range from $45,000 to $180,000 depending on the number of stone categories, pricing tier complexity, cert integrations, and third-party feed connections (RapNet, IDEX, ERP). A dealer with 3 stone categories, 4 buyer tiers, GIA cert integration, and basic memo tracking lands around $55K-$75K. A large wholesaler with 12+ categories, multi-origin parcels, GRS and Gubelin cert APIs, IDEX feed sync, multi-currency invoicing, and trade-show landing pages runs $120K-$180K. Timeline is 12-18 weeks from discovery to live buyer onboarding. Ongoing retainers of $4,000-$15,000 per month cover new buyer onboarding, supplier feed maintenance, pricing rule updates, cert API monitoring, and platform upgrades.

Yes, and this is one of the highest-ROI features for wholesalers who spend $15K-$40K per trade show on booth costs alone. Before the show, we build a branded landing page for Tucson, JCK Las Vegas, Vicenzaoro, or Hong Kong that captures buyer contacts via QR code or badge scan. After the show, those contacts receive an email with a gated link to the exact parcels you showed them at the booth. Pricing stays locked for 14 days. Buyers log in, review stones with photos, cert data, and per-carat pricing, then place orders or request memo without waiting for your follow-up call. Dealers using this workflow report converting 25-35% of trade-show leads within 21 days, compared to the industry average of 8-12% via email follow-up alone.

Multi-currency is built into the pricing engine, not layered on with a plugin. Your buyer in Antwerp sees EUR, your buyer in Jaipur sees INR, and your domestic accounts see USD. Exchange rates pull from a financial data feed you choose and update on your schedule, whether daily, weekly, or at a locked rate for specific buyer agreements. Invoices generate in the buyer's display currency with your bank details for that currency. Tax-exempt handling triggers automatically when a buyer's account has a verified resale certificate or valid GJEPC or AWDC trade registration on file. No manual invoice corrections, no back-and-forth emails about sales tax. For U.S. interstate transactions, the system applies state-level nexus rules where required and flags exempt accounts clearly in your order dashboard.

Shopify Plus and WooCommerce were built for retail consumers buying finished jewelry. They do not support parcel-level pricing where a single SKU has per-carat rates across 4 buyer tiers. They have no native memo or consignment workflow. Their product models do not accommodate treatment codes (heated, oiled, filled, none), origin fields (Mogok, Ratnapura, Panjshir), or cert report numbers as structured, searchable data. You end up installing 8-12 plugins that conflict with each other and break on updates. Buyer verification becomes a manual approval queue held together with email tags. At $45K-$75K, a purpose-built platform costs less than the 18-24 months of plugin patching, developer hours, and lost deals that a forced-fit retail platform creates. Your data model matches how the gemstone trade actually works, not how a sneaker brand sells online.