Matching exchange
Market matching — buyers meet sellers at the optimal price
One transparent min-cost auction across every market. Buyers submit WTP, quantity, quality floor, and deadline; sellers post price, capacity, quality, region, and lead time. The engine picks the lowest LANDED cost per unit for every buyer and shows the runner-up so nothing is a black box.
Matching rules
- Feasibility — a (buyer, seller) pair is eligible only if seller price + logistics − quality-bonus ≤ buyer WTP, seller quality ≥ buyer floor, and lead-time ≤ deadline.
- Buyer priority — shortest deadline first; earliest request time breaks ties. No large buyer can starve a smaller urgent one.
- Seller selection — for each buyer we pick the seller with the lowest landed cost:
price + logistics(region) − quality_bonus. Cross-region trades pay a freight/admin premium (5% for services, 8% for goods). - Capacity & min-order — allocations respect remaining seller capacity and the seller's minimum order. Partial fills are allowed and reported.
- Transparency — every match publishes its runner-up seller and per-unit saving (Δ vs runner-up, Δ vs the buyer's WTP).
- Country pooling — flip the switch to aggregate individual buyers by country into one national bid. Volume discount uses the constant-elasticity rule
P(Q) = P₀·(Q₀/Q)1/|ε|, so pooled demand automatically drops the price ceiling.
Physical goods — manufacturers, wholesalers, and retail buyers.
Aggregate buyer demand by country and unlock volume-adjusted price ceilings.
More elastic (|ε| ↑) ⇒ deeper pooled discount.
Fill rate
74.3%
1,300 / 1,750 units
Total spend
111,173.8
baseline @ WTP: 130,500
Buyer savings
19,326.2
14.8% vs paying WTP
Unfilled buyers
2
See table below
Clearing schedule
| Buyer | Seller (winner) | units | Unit price (landed) | Runner-up price | Δ / unit vs runner-up | Δ / unit vs WTP | Fill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RetailChain US | Zenith Ltd | 200 | 92 | 7.99 | 18 | 100% | |
| EuroBuyer | SouthMake SA | 300 | 91.8 | 3.19 | 13.2 | 100% | |
| BrazilCo | SouthMake SA | 100 | 85 | 14.36 | 15 | 40% | |
| BrazilCo | Zenith Ltd | 100 | 99.36 | — | 0 | 0.64 | 40% |
| AsiaWholesale | AsiaSource Co | 600 | 78 | — | 0 | 17 | 100% |
Unfilled bids
| Buyer | Units short | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| BrazilCo | 50 | No feasible seller (price above WTP, quality below floor, or lead time > deadline). |
| DiscountMart | 400 | No feasible seller (price above WTP, quality below floor, or lead time > deadline). |