Deals
Your contracts with each provider, next to your routing. Unirail prices decisions from them, and shows what moving volume between providers would save.
When you negotiate with several providers at once you get a better deal, but only if you know what each one costs you today and what switching would change. Deals keep your provider contracts in the dashboard (Deals), versioned, and feed them into routing.
What a deal holds
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| Provider and name | Which provider, and what you call the contract. |
| Status | negotiating, active, expired or terminated. Only active deals price routing; negotiating ones show up as offers in the comparison. |
| Dates | Start, end, renewal and the last day to give notice. The list counts down to renewal and highlights notice dates within 30 days. |
| Currency | Prices are in its major units, so 0.035 is 3.5 pence. |
| Unit pricing | Per payment, link or active connection: tiers used in order (the first 1,000 payments at one price, the next 9,000 at another, a tier can lapse on a date), then an overage price for everything after. |
| Fixed fees | Monthly or yearly fees, owed whatever the volume. |
| Commitments | Minimum volumes or spend you agreed to. |
| Owner, notes, document | Who runs the relationship, anything worth remembering, and a link to the signed contract in your own document store. |
Never put credentials in a deal: they stay in your secrets manager.
Versions
Every save is a new version with a reason ("Signed the renewal at 0.15 a payment"), and the old terms are kept. The history shows what a provider cost at any point, so the price behind any past routing decision can be traced to the terms in force then.
How routing uses them
A routing decision's estimatedCost is the price of the next unit under the provider's active deal, given how many units you've used this calendar month across your environments of the same mode: once the first tier's 1,000 payments are used, the next one is priced at the second tier. Without an active deal Unirail uses the provider's published list price where one exists, and otherwise reports the cost as unknown, which never counts against the provider.
Comparing providers
The comparison prices a month of volume at each provider you've connected or have a deal with, at your current tiers and fixed fees, using the same cost model as routing. Offers you're still negotiating sit beside today's prices. Pick two providers and a percentage to see what moving that share of volume would cost or save each month, with tier effects included: moving volume changes which tier each provider's units fall in, and the comparison prices that rather than averaging it away.