About

Meridian is purchasing power parity pricing for digital sellers. You create one link. When someone opens it, we read the country their request arrives from and redirect them to the checkout you chose for their region.

A $49 course is roughly a day of median income in the United States and closer to three weeks in a low-income country. Sellers who want to reach both usually end up either pricing for the rich country and losing the rest of the world, or discounting everywhere and losing margin. Meridian is the smaller idea in between: one link, priced per region.

How the routing works

The redirect runs on Cloudflare's edge network. It reads the country from the request, looks up your configuration, and issues a 302. There is no database call on that path, so it adds about as much delay as a DNS lookup.

Everything after the redirect is unchanged. Your payments, tax handling, receipts and checkout stay with whoever handles them today. Meridian never touches money.

Where the tiers come from

The default regions map one to one onto the World Bank income classification, which groups countries by GNI per capita, Atlas method, current US$ and is revised each July. We do not decide which band a country is in. That matters: if you are asked why a country is in your cheapest tier, the answer should be a published source with a date on it, not a judgement we made.

The suggested discounts are derived from each band's median GNI per capita, damped by 0.3 and capped at 70%. That damping is ours and we say so wherever the number appears: raw income ratios imply discounts near 98%, which no business can carry. Every default is editable, and once you move a country the link routes on your choice.

What it does not do

Meridian does not detect or block VPNs beyond flagging obvious datacenter traffic for your own review. Someone determined to pay a lower price can route around country detection. The product is built for the ordinary case, where the person opening your link is where they appear to be.