How it works

One loop. You in the middle.

MelQart runs a single operations loop: detect the market move, recommend the response, wait for your approval, apply the change, verify the result. Here is each step, and the controls around it.

The loop, step by step

Five steps. One human gate.

01

Detect

MelQart watches the competitor storefronts you name — prices, promotions, launches, stockouts. Every observation arrives normalized per unit and per currency, timestamped with when it was seen.

02

Recommend

When a move matters, MelQart drafts the response: the recommended price, the observation that triggered it, and the guardrail check it passed. Anything that would violate your rules is blocked before you ever see it.

03

Approve

You are the gate. Every change waits in your queue, ranked by impact, until you approve, adjust, or decline it. Recommend-only is the default — and it stays that way until you decide otherwise.

04

Apply

Approved changes sync to your platform — Shopify, WooCommerce, Salla, Zid, or Vendure — and the application is confirmed, not assumed. Failures retry and surface. Nothing fails silently.

05

Verify

Every action lands in the record with its actor, its evidence, and its result. Anything applied reverses in one click, straight from its history entry.

Guardrails

Your rules run before you do.

Guardrails are checked before a recommendation ever reaches your queue. A move that would break one is blocked and logged — you see that it was stopped, and why. Nothing asks for your approval unless it already respects your rules.

The four guardrails

Margin floorNever price below the margin you set
Maximum dropCap any single move, e.g. 15% in 24 hours
Price floorAn absolute minimum, per product or storewide
Change velocityA daily limit on how many prices can move

The trust model

Automation is earned. By MelQart, not from you.

Every account starts in recommend-only. A trust score, built from the track record of decisions on your own store, is the only path to more autonomy — and its pace is yours to set. Rollbacks cost trust; repeated rollbacks pause automation entirely.

01

Bootstrap

Everything is manual. MelQart proves itself decision by decision while you approve each one.

02

Operational

Recommendations flow steadily and you approve each one. The queue, the evidence, and the audit trail are your daily rhythm.

03

Autonomous

A phase you unlock, never a default. Classes of action you pre-approve can run inside your guardrails, with the same audit trail and one-click rollback — and you can take the wheel back at any time.

Connected to your store

Reads your catalog. Writes only what you approve.

MelQart connects through each platform’s official APIs with scoped credentials. It reads your catalog to build the market picture, and the only thing it ever writes back is a price change you approved.

Step zero

The loop starts with a free look at your market.