What is this discount approval threshold tool?
A free, browser-based tool that tells you who has to sign off on a discount and whether the deal still clears your margin floor. Enter the list price, cost and requested discount, set the approval tiers (rep / manager / executive) and the minimum margin, and it instantly returns the required approval level, the post-discount price, gross profit, gross margin, and a clear warning when the margin falls below the floor. Everything runs locally in your browser, so your pricing data is never uploaded.
How it decides
- Final price = List price × (1 − discount %).
- Gross profit = Final price − Cost.
- Gross margin = Gross profit ÷ Final price.
- Approval level = the first tier whose cap covers the requested discount; anything above the manager cap escalates to executive.
- Floor breach = gross margin below the margin floor you set.
How to use it
- Enter the list price, cost and the requested discount on the left.
- Adjust the approval tiers and margin floor to match your discount policy.
- Read the verdict on the right: who must approve, and whether the deal breaches the floor.
Common use cases
- A rep checks whether they can close a deal themselves or must escalate.
- Sales ops codifies a discount authorization matrix and pressure-tests it.
- A manager verifies a requested discount still keeps the deal above the margin floor.