| name | mena-pricing-packaging |
| description | Use this skill when designing, reviewing, localizing, or safety-checking Arab/MENA pricing pages, SaaS packaging, self-serve vs demo pricing, VAT and currency display, BNPL/installment positioning, discounts, enterprise quotes, procurement-friendly offers, and pricing-page claims. |
MENA Pricing Packaging
When To Use
Use this skill for MENA pricing and packaging strategy, pricing-page localization, offer QA, quote structure, VAT/currency display review, discount copy, and procurement-friendly package design.
When Not To Use
- Do not change live prices, publish pricing pages, send quotes, submit tenders, enable payment/BNPL methods, or launch offers without explicit approval.
- Do not invent exact prices, competitor prices, merchant fees, tax rates, Sharia claims, conversion uplift, endpoint URLs, credentials, or compliance claims.
- Route tax/e-invoicing to
arab-einvoicing-tax, payments to mena-payments, BNPL implementation to mena-bnpl, open banking to mena-open-banking, and payroll/HR compliance to mena-hr-payroll.
Required Context
- Country or market.
- Buyer type: consumer, self-serve SME, assisted SMB, mid-market, enterprise, government, regulated, or marketplace.
- Pricing surface: public pricing page, checkout, quote, tender, reseller offer, annual renewal, or discount campaign.
- Currency, tax status, billing period, and sales motion if known.
- Whether live customer, payment, tax, payroll, identity, or bank data is involved.
Common Workflows
- Review pricing pages for VAT/currency clarity, plan logic, hidden fees, add-ons, and unsupported claims.
- Design package hypotheses by segment without inventing exact prices.
- Draft enterprise quote structures with tax treatment, scope, SLA, implementation, support, validity, and procurement fields.
- Review BNPL/installment, annual discount, free trial, and promotion wording for safety.
Default Workflow
- Read
sources.yml and the reference file matching the request.
- Classify country, buyer type, pricing surface, tax context, currency, and sales motion.
- Use source-backed pricing facts only when the source is current and explicitly states them.
- Label recommendations as high, medium, low, unknown, or needs review.
- Use
Unknown from public docs for exact prices, tax treatment, merchant fees, or provider terms not supported by current public sources.
- Prepare drafts and review notes only; require explicit approval before live pricing, publishing, sending, or procurement actions.
Decision Tree
- Pricing page localization: read
references/pricing-page-localization.md.
- VAT or currency: read
references/vat-and-currency.md.
- B2B or enterprise package: read
references/b2b-packaging.md, references/saas-pricing.md, and references/quote-and-procurement.md.
- Ecommerce offer, BNPL, installment, or discount: read
references/ecommerce-offers.md and references/discounting.md.
Response Contract
- Start by naming
skills/mena-pricing-packaging/SKILL.md and the reference files used.
- Separate source-backed facts, pricing hypotheses, assumptions, unknowns, and review-required items.
- Confidence-label all pricing and packaging recommendations.
- Avoid exact pricing claims unless source-backed with source URL and checked date.
- Include tax/legal/procurement/native review gates where relevant.
- Never provide live-action instructions that change prices, move money, submit tenders, send quotes, or publish offers without explicit human approval.
Source And Confidence Rules
- High-confidence claims require public sources or completed review evidence.
- Medium-confidence notes need source-backed signals or multiple weak sources.
- Low-confidence notes must be labeled as hypotheses, unknowns, or review-required.
- Do not turn country-level statistics into individual-level behavior claims.
Anti-Stereotype Rules
- Never assign traits to nationality, religion, ethnicity, dialect group, gender, age, or income group.
- Scope recommendations by country, audience, segment, channel, and evidence.
- Prefer "for this audience and channel, consider" over broad cultural claims.
Output Rules
- Give practical drafts, plans, templates, checklists, or QA steps.
- Mark dialect, public brand copy, regulated content, and strategic recommendations as review-required when not reviewed.
- End with a short validation checklist and any required human approval gate.
Files To Read
- Routing and process:
SKILL.md.
- Source map:
sources.yml.
- Topic references:
references/*.md.
- Review example:
examples/pricing-localization-review.md.
- Compatibility example:
examples/source-backed-answer.md.
Safety Rules
- Treat VAT, discounts, BNPL/installments, procurement, payroll, payments, tax, identity, and regulated pricing as high-risk.
- Use sandbox/test workflows before production pricing or checkout changes.
- Protect secrets, credentials, customer data, quote details, procurement documents, and pricing models.
- Require explicit approval before publish, send, launch, price changes, quote submission, discount activation, or tender submission.
- Use retries and idempotency for any automation that writes pricing records, checkout plans, quotes, or discounts.
Validation Checklist
- Country, buyer type, sales motion, currency, billing period, and tax context are explicit or marked unknown.
- Exact prices, discounts, fees, and tax treatment are source-backed or marked
Unknown from public docs.
- VAT-inclusive/exclusive wording has official-source and expert-review caveats.
- BNPL/installment copy avoids guaranteed approval, hidden fees, Sharia claims, and unsupported conversion claims.
- Procurement and quote outputs include review gates and approval before sending.
- Evals in
evals/prompts.yml still cover tax, BNPL, quote, free trial, discount, and exact-price failure modes.
Done Criteria
- The answer names files read and sources used.
- Pricing recommendations are confidence-labeled and source-scoped.
- No unsupported exact price, legal, tax, BNPL, Sharia, procurement, endpoint, compliance, or performance claims are included.
