Method and system for constructing price structures for complex products and services

A system for providing a price structure for a product or service within an electronic commerce back-end platform, the system comprising:

• a product administration interface capable of receiving definitions of a preselected number of price components and accepting business rules for manipulating the components;
• a customer interface capable of receiving information from a customer initiating the transaction;
• a processor, in communication with the product administration interface and the customer interface, and executing software, the software comprising:
• a pricing tree builder for building a pricing tree of components, including:
• a first revenue stream allocable to a first provider;
• a second revenue stream allocable to a second provider;
• and
• a resulting price generator for calculating a resulting price from specific components according to the business rules;
• and
• a computer storage in communication with the processor for storing the business rules and components and the information, the storage capable of storing the components so as to stay discretely allocated after the calculation of the resulting price.

A software program stored on a computer-readable medium, the software program comprising:

• a pricing tree builder for providing a pricing tree of price components passed to the software from business rules input by a user with values passed to the software from a customer interface, the components including:
• a first revenue stream allocable to a first provider;
• a second revenue stream allocable to a second provider;
• and
• a resulting price generator for calculating a resulting price from specific components according to the business rules.