Minimum-Order & MOQ Enforcer

The problem this kills

Tiny orders are quietly losing you money. A customer orders one $14 item that costs $11 to pick, pack, and ship. A channel sends a batch of below-minimum orders nobody catches. Your reps know there are minimums - by customer, by channel, by account tier - but the rules live in someone's head, a sticky note, or a tab in a spreadsheet that half the team has never seen.

So orders slip through. Some get caught late and trigger an awkward "sorry, we have a minimum" email. Some get shipped at a loss. And when a good customer legitimately needs an exception, there's no clean way to record who approved it or why.

You don't need an ERP project or a developer to fix this. You need a small tool that knows your minimums, checks every order against them, and makes a human approve the exceptions.

What you'll build

A simple internal web app - just for your team - that:

• Imports an orders CSV (or pulls from a Google Sheet) and an editable rules table of minimums by customer and by channel.
• Checks every order against the right minimum - order value, quantity, or both - and flags the ones below minimum, with the exact gap ("$22 short of the $75 channel minimum").
• Honors per-customer exceptions - some accounts have a different (or zero) minimum, and the tool respects that.
• Routes each flagged order to a rep who chooses one of three outcomes: apply a small-order fee, suggest an upsell to clear the minimum, or approve an override (with a reason).
• Exports a clean, compliant order list in the exact columns your downstream system expects - and logs every decision: who, what, when, why.

It's realistic to build in a single afternoon, even if you've never written code.

What's inside the Implementation Plan

The plan is a single file you paste into an AI coding agent (Claude Code). It walks the agent - and you - through the whole build, one copy-paste prompt at a time.

It opens by interviewing you about your business. Before it builds anything, the plan makes the agent ask about your real order data, your channels and customer tiers, how your minimums actually work (value, quantity, or both), your exceptions, your fee policy, and the messy edge cases - then it reads a short tailored spec back to you for a thumbs-up. You get a tool shaped around your process, not a generic template that ignores how you really work.

From there it covers:

• Setting up the database, login, and security.
• Importing your orders and your rules, with a duplicate guard keyed on order ID.
• The minimum-check engine, tuned to your value/quantity rules and per-customer exceptions.
• The rep review screen with the fee / upsell / override decision gate.
• The compliant CSV export and the audit log.
• How to verify it works, plus a no-integration fallback so you can build it today.

The governance it includes (this is the point)

This isn't a script that quietly rewrites your orders. Governance is built in from the first step:

• Login so only your team can open the tool.
• Row-level security so each organization only ever sees its own orders and rules.
• A hard human-in-the-loop gate - the tool flags and drafts a recommendation, but a rep must approve the fee, upsell, or override before an order is marked compliant. Nothing commits on its own.
• A complete audit trail - every flag and every decision records who did it, when, and the reason.
• A duplicate guard keyed on order ID so the same order can't be processed twice.

Who it's for

Customer service reps, inside sales, and operations people who own order quality and margin - anyone who's tired of unprofitable below-minimum orders slipping through, and wants a clean, auditable way to enforce minimums without nagging a developer.

You've got this. Paste the first prompt and let the plan interview you.