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The online store that reprices its entire catalog every hour, by itself.

An online precious-metals retailer whose product prices depend on a commodity market that moves all day. Repricing by hand was a full-time job done badly. This is what one platform changed.

The business

An online precious-metals retailer

E-commerce plus a physical counter: bullion, coins and jewelry, sold at prices tied to the live gold and silver market. Customers write through the website, email, text messages and Instagram, and every sale needs a numbered invoice, a stock update and often insured shipping. Small team, high ticket sizes, zero tolerance for pricing mistakes.

The problems

What was going wrong

When your costs move every hour, manual anything becomes a risk.

Prices always stale

Gold moves all day; the website was repriced by hand once a day at best. Every gap between market and website was margin lost, or sales lost.

Four inboxes, one person

Email, text messages, Instagram and Facebook messages answered from four different apps, whenever there was a spare moment.

Invoices as a chore

Each sale meant writing an invoice, updating stock and sending an email: three manual steps that queued up on busy days.

Stock in a spreadsheet

Bars and coins tracked in a spreadsheet that agreed with reality most of the time. Most is not enough at these prices.

Marketing when possible

The blog and social accounts went quiet for weeks whenever operations got busy, exactly when visibility mattered most.

Everything through the owner

Pricing rules, stock truth and customer history lived in one head.

The solution

What we built into their platform

The platform runs the clockwork so people can run the relationships.

01

Hourly repricing

The platform reads the live metal reference and recalculates every product price on the website, every hour, using the store's own margin formula per product.

02

Stock-linked invoicing

One click turns a sale into a numbered invoice PDF, emailed automatically, with the exact bar or coin flipped to sold in stock.

03

Unified inbox

Email, text messages (SMS), Instagram and Facebook in one screen, with full history per customer and templates for the questions asked every day.

04

Bullion registry

Every bar and coin tracked by serial from supplier invoice to sale: cost, status, sale price and buyer, always reconciled.

05

Accounting view

Sales, cost of goods, margin and expenses per month, built from the same data, no re-typing.

06

Marketing autopilot

A content calendar where AI drafts blog articles and social posts on schedule; the owner approves and the platform publishes.

Day to day

A normal day, after the platform

The metal market moved 0.6 percent overnight. By the time the store opens, all catalog prices are already correct. Nobody touched anything.

A customer texts to ask if a coin is available. The answer, with live price, goes out from the same screen where the email and Instagram queues live.

Hourly reprice runs again. The price-history chart quietly records it.

A 100g bar sells. Invoice generated, numbered, emailed; the bar's serial flips to sold; stock value updates. Total human effort: one click.

The week's blog article, drafted by AI against the content calendar, gets a two-minute review and is scheduled for publication.

The outcome

Before and after

Before

  • Repricing by hand, always late
  • Four inboxes checked in rotation
  • Invoices queued on busy days
  • Stock spreadsheet almost right
  • Marketing in the gaps

After

  • Whole catalog repriced hourly, automatically
  • Every channel in one screen
  • Invoice, email and stock in one click
  • Every serial tracked end to end
  • Content shipping on a calendar
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