PDI Technologies Automated Fuel Margin Digest
Every morning, WebRun opens PDI Technologies, reads the current retail price and dealer cost for each fuel grade at every active location, calculates the cents-per-gallon margin, compares it against your target margin thresholds, and posts a fuel margin digest to your pricing Slack channel with any location falling below threshold flagged in red.
How do I track daily fuel margins across my convenience store locations automatically?
WebRun opens PDI Technologies every morning, reads retail prices and dealer costs for every fuel grade at each active location, calculates the cents-per-gallon margin, and posts a digest to your pricing Slack channel. Sites where margin falls below your threshold are flagged so your team can reprice before the compressed margin compounds.
- Compressed fuel margins are flagged before they compound over multiple days
- Pricing team sees margin by grade and site every morning without pulling reports
- Network average margin is always visible alongside individual site performance
Built for fuel retail pricing managers · convenience store operators · fuel wholesale teams
What does WebRun do on every run?
The exact actions WebRun takes, in order - in plain language, so you can adjust anything.
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WebRun signs in and gets to work
Opens
pditechnologies.com/increase-productivity/erp-back-officein a real browser with your saved login - no setup, no API keys. -
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PDI Technologies - read retail price and dealer cost per grade and location
pditechnologies.com
WebRun opens PDI Technologies to read retail price and dealer cost per grade and location. - Open PDI Technologies and navigate to the Fuel Pricebook or Fuel Management module
- Read the current posted retail price for regular unleaded, midgrade, premium, and diesel at each active location
- Read the current dealer cost per grade at each location
- Calculate cents-per-gallon margin for each grade at each site as retail price minus dealer cost minus credit card fee estimate
- Flag any grade at any site where margin falls below your configured minimum threshold
Done when Cents-per-gallon margin is calculated for every grade at every active location, with threshold breaches identified.
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Slack - post fuel margin digest with below-threshold flags
slack.com
WebRun opens Slack to post fuel margin digest with below-threshold flags. - Format a Slack message with a table of sites and grades showing today's margin in cents per gallon
- Use a flag emoji next to any site-grade combination below the minimum margin threshold
- Add a network average margin row at the bottom for quick context
- Post to the pricing or fuel ops Slack channel
Done when Pricing team has today's fuel margin digest in Slack with below-threshold sites called out.
How is each run configured?
Secure by default
Connect once, stays signed in
WebRun signs in once and keeps each session in a persistent environment, so every run picks up right where it left off.
Every action is checked against this policy before it runs.
Questions, answered
Does it change fuel prices automatically when margin compresses?
No. WebRun only calculates and reports the margin. Price changes are always made by your pricing team in PDI Technologies after reviewing the digest.
What fuel grades does it cover?
By default it covers regular unleaded, midgrade, premium, and diesel. You can add or remove grades during setup to match the grades your sites offer.
How does it know the dealer cost?
It reads the dealer cost recorded in PDI Technologies for each location and grade. If your costs are updated in PDI during the day, the next morning's run will use the updated figure.
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