AI Assistant (Leat MCP)
July 20
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Margin protection
Set the minimum margin each transaction must retain and the maximum cost an incentive may create. Leat checks these limits as incentives are applied, using current product costs to prevent discounts, rewards, and redemptions from pushing a transaction below the level your business accepts.
Define the margin a transaction must retain after every incentive is applied, using a percentage, an absolute amount, or both. Floors can vary by category, location, or channel to reflect different commercial requirements. If an incentive would take the transaction below its floor, Leat can reduce its value to fit or decline it, based on the policy set for that incentive type.
Set the maximum value any single incentive can cost the business. A percentage voucher can have a fixed maximum, preventing a 20% discount from becoming an unexpectedly large reduction on a high-value transaction. Free-item rewards can be limited by product cost, while points redemptions can have a maximum value per transaction.
Use product costs from connected POS and e-commerce systems, then fill any gaps at product or category level. Exclude low-margin products, strategically important items, or complete categories from specific incentives. Higher floors can protect the products that contribute most to profit, while lower floors can support categories where increased volume matters more. Teams can also define what customers are told when an incentive is reduced or declined.
Decisioning and Leat AI consider margin requirements before selecting an incentive. Any option that would take the transaction below its floor or exceed its cost ceiling is removed from consideration. The system can then select a lower-cost alternative that supports the same objective without breaking the business’s margin rules.
High value basket protection
Maximum incentive values prevent percentage discounts from creating unexpectedly large costs on high-value transactions.
Low margin product protection
Products and categories with limited room for discounting remain outside incentives that could make them unprofitable.
Mixed margin basket control
Transaction-level floors protect the total margin when a basket contains products with different costs and several incentives apply.
Free item reward boundaries
Cost ceilings keep product choice within the value the reward was designed to fund.
Point redemption economics
Redemption limits protect the remaining transaction margin when customers exchange large points balances for value.
Local discount controls
Marketing and local teams can create incentives without discounting products beyond the limits approved by the business.
