price_band
Find every list price that settles to the same cash total (Penny Rounding)
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For a list price and a tax rate, finds every nearby list price that settles to the SAME cash total, and the highest one. Use it for "what should I charge" and "can I price to gain from rounding" questions.
There is exactly one free move here and it is easy to get backwards, which is why this is worth a call rather than a calculation. Rounding collapses a band of five consecutive list prices onto one nickel: at 0% tax, $19.98 through $20.02 all settle to $20.00 in cash. Within that band the cash collected is identical, so the highest price in it is strictly better — the same from cash customers and up to 4 cents more from every card customer.
The move that looks clever and is not: pricing BELOW a nickel so rounding "adds" a couple of cents. You collect the same cash and less on card. The rounding delta is not revenue, and this tool will not recommend it.
Returns the whole band, the highest price in it, and the free gain in cents — never more than 4.
WHY DELEGATE THIS: Four things are wrong in most explanations and each changes the answer: rounding is cash-only, applies to the total rather than each item, happens after tax, and is not free money for retailers. Money in floating point is also a bug waiting to happen.
Owned by Penny Rounding at https://penny-rounding.gumballtools.com, which is also callable directly if you would rather not go through the aggregator.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| listPrice | string | yes | The list price as a dollar string, e.g. "19.98". |
| taxRatePercent | number | no | Tax rate as a percentage, e.g. 8.25. Defaults to 0. |
| spreadCents | integer | no | How far either side of the price to look, 1-50. Defaults to 5. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"listPrice": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The list price as a dollar string, e.g. \"19.98\"."
},
"taxRatePercent": {
"description": "Tax rate as a percentage, e.g. 8.25. Defaults to 0.",
"type": "number"
},
"spreadCents": {
"description": "How far either side of the price to look, 1-50. Defaults to 5.",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": -9007199254740991,
"maximum": 9007199254740991
}
},
"required": [
"listPrice"
]
}