Review-required pricing

Flag a quote line for mandatory review before a customer sees a price or can check out.

The review-required gate lets your pricing equation hold a part back for your attention before anything is shown to the customer. While it is active, the price is hidden on the storefront and the customer cannot check out.

💡 Use this for parts that are outside your normal range: unusually large files, edge-case material combinations, high quantities, or anything you want to price manually before committing.

How it works

Your pricing equation sets reviewRequired to true when calling done().
The customer sees a "price under review" message instead of a price, and the checkout button is disabled.
You review the part from the order detail page in the manufacturer platform and set a price manually.
Once all flagged parts have a price, the customer can proceed to checkout.

Setting the flag in your equation

Pass true as the third argument to done() to flag a quote line for mandatory review:

done(price)                           // normal quote
done(price, duration)                 // with manufacturing duration
done(price, duration, reviewRequired) // flag for review when reviewRequired is true

Your equation still runs to completion. The calculated price is visible to your team internally and can be approved as-is or adjusted.

You can also use the object style if you prefer:

done({ price: calculatedPrice, reviewRequired: true })

Both do exactly the same thing.

Automatic triggering

The gate also fires automatically if the computed price is falsy, negative, or NaN (for example, if a required material variable is missing and the formula produces an unexpected result). This means customers will never see a broken or zero-price quote - no need to set reviewRequired if your equation already can't produce a valid price.

Examples

Each example follows the same pattern: compute reviewRequired as a boolean, pass it to done(). The examples below are minimal and can be extended into more complex logic based on your use case.

Part exceeds machine dimensions

const { width, length, height } = specification

const X = 340   // width (mm) - adjust to your machine
const Y = 340   // length (mm)
const Z = 580   // height (mm) - Z is the vertical axis

const reviewRequired = width > X || length > Y || height > Z

// Alternatively, flag if the largest single dimension exceeds the vertical axis
// const reviewRequired = Math.max(width, height, length) > Z

done(unitPrice, 0, reviewRequired)

Price out of expected range

const reviewRequired = unitPrice > 1000

done(unitPrice, 0, reviewRequired)

Material requires manual pricing

const MANUAL_MATERIALS = ['Inconel 625', 'Ti-6Al-4V', 'Carbon PEEK']

const reviewRequired = MANUAL_MATERIALS.includes(specification.material.name)

done(unitPrice, 0, reviewRequired)

Quantity too high

const reviewRequired = requisition.quantity > 500

done(unitPrice, 0, reviewRequired)

Production time too long

const totalHours = round(buildHours + setupHours, 1)   // your duration calculation

const reviewRequired = totalHours > 120

done(unitPrice, totalHours, reviewRequired)

Unsupported material and colour combination

const isUnsupported =
  specification.material.name === 'TPU' && specification.color === 'white'

done({ price: computeBasePrice(), reviewRequired: isUnsupported })

Post-process equation

In post-process equations, processPricing.price gives you the parent part's process price.

const handlingFee    = variable('1: Handling fee', 2)
const finishFee      = processPricing.price * variable('2: % of part price', 0.15)
const finalUnitPrice = variable('3: Override unit price', handlingFee + finishFee)

const reviewRequired = finalUnitPrice > 500

done(finalUnitPrice, 2, reviewRequired)

Always require review (fully manual quoting)

done({ price: 0, reviewRequired: true })

What the customer sees

When any part in an order is flagged for review, the customer sees a localised "price under review" message in place of the price. The checkout button is disabled until all flagged parts have been reviewed and priced.

What you see as a manufacturer

Flagged orders are visible in your order list. Open the order, review the part details, and use the override controls to set a price. Once every flagged part has a valid price, the customer can check out.

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