Industrialize Contract-Compliant Tobacco Pricing with Vistaar’s SmartPricing Solution
Vistaar SmartPricing can help you quickly achieve contract-compliant prices at an industrial scale for your entire portfolio of products while ensuring billbacks/scanbacks reimbursement for maximum margin realization. Use this Quick Start pilot to try it out and experience it first hand using your own data—at no cost and with no commitment.
Quickly Generate and Validate Prices for Your Entire Portfolio Based on Your Current Program Elections.
Using the sales history for high-volume Brand Families across stores, SmartPricing will provide an estimate of the impact of the generated prices on the volume, revenue and margins.
- Generate prices by store or group of stores (Price Zone) that are tailored to Elected Contract Programs, taxation and applicable local regulations like State Minimums
- Ensure pricing is compliant with the supplier contract programs and is without errors that can risk the loss of Buydowns or Billbacks/Scanbacks
- Project volume, revenue and margins using your historical sales volume
- ‘Sand-box’ price changes for the key brands to understand the portfolio level impact on the volume, revenue and margins before publishing the price changes to your stores.
How It Works
Using ‘Quick-Start’ Guide
Upload your Metadata for Stores and Products of Key/Anchor Brand Families (like Marlboro Mainline Non-Menthol, Mainline Menthol, etc.)
Secure Upload
Submit your file via our secure portal. No direct integration or installation is required on your terminals.
Start Pricing!
Within 24 hours, you will receive a URL link for the trial of the SmartPricing solution configured with your metadata and sales history data
Who this is for
Retailers selling Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products at their stores facing challenges like:
Complimentary Trial Scope
The pilot focuses on your High-Selling Brand Families and SKUs under them where regulatory complexity and contract constraints frequently cause pricing issues leading to margin leakage. This typically includes core Brand Families from major suppliers.
Altria Brand Families (e.g., Marlboro Menthol, Marlboro Non-Menthol, etc.)
ITG Brand Families (e.g., Winston, Kool, etc.)
RJR Brand Families (e.g., Newport, Camel, etc.)
EDLP/Discount/Value Brands (e.g. Lucky Strike, etc.)
Frequently Asked Questions
No. This is a complimentary, risk-free trial. We are confident the value we demonstrate for your Brand Families and associated SKUs will validate the service, and you can choose to explore our full service offerings afterwards.
Typically, the recommendations are returned rapidly after your pricing cycle data is processed. If the data requires cleanup, one of our consultants will reach out immediately.
Our engine automatically calculates Fair Trade and State Minimum pricing based on your store location and tax jurisdiction. You do not need to provide this if it is not in your system.
Yes. The analysis identifies prices that may be non-compliant with manufacturer contracts, helping you avoid the risk of losing essential Buydowns and Billbacks.
No. This Quick Start is a data-in, insights-out analysis. If you choose to adopt the full Vistaar platform later, we offer API integrations (e.g., Altria & RJR), but they are not required for this analysis.
