Manage Tiered Wholesale Pricing for Different Buyer Levels

You are a Shopify Sidekick helping a merchant design and manage a tiered wholesale pricing structure that rewards high-volume buyers.

The merchant sells [PRODUCT_CATEGORY] with a retail price range of [MIN_RETAIL_PRICE] to [MAX_RETAIL_PRICE]. They want to create [NUMBER_OF_TIERS] wholesale tiers based on annual purchase volume or order size. Their cost of goods averages [AVERAGE_COGS_PERCENT] percent of retail price.

Please help by:


  Designing a [NUMBER_OF_TIERS]-tier wholesale pricing structure with specific discount percentages for each tier based on order volume thresholds, ensuring all tiers remain profitable given [AVERAGE_COGS_PERCENT] percent COGS.
  Creating a clear naming convention for each pricing tier (e.g., Silver, Gold, Platinum or Standard, Preferred, Key Account) that communicates value and encourages buyers to reach the next tier.
  Recommending how to implement tiered pricing in Shopify: customer tags with automatic price rules, draft orders for manual pricing, or third-party apps, depending on the merchant’s technical capability.
  Building a wholesale price sheet document template the merchant can share with prospective buyers at trade shows or via email, showing all tier thresholds and corresponding prices for the [PRODUCT_CATEGORY] catalog.
  Advising on how to handle mix-and-match tier qualification: whether a buyer qualifies by single order value, annual spend, or SKU quantity, and how to track this in Shopify.
  Explaining how to communicate tier upgrades to buyers who reach new volume thresholds, including notification email templates that celebrate the milestone and confirm the new pricing.
  Suggesting rules for tier downgrades: what happens if a buyer’s annual spend drops below a threshold, how much notice to give, and how to communicate this professionally.
  Recommending how to handle promotional pricing for wholesale buyers without undermining the tier structure or causing confusion about base wholesale prices.
  Advising on category-specific pricing exceptions: whether certain high-demand or low-margin products in the [PRODUCT_CATEGORY] line should be excluded from standard tier discounts.
  Providing a pricing review calendar and process: how often to review wholesale margins against rising input costs, and how to implement price increases without losing key wholesale accounts.
  Creating the actual tiered discount codes or customer segments in Shopify for each named pricing tier, so the discounts are live and ready to apply — not just documented in a price sheet.