> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://elastly.io/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Quickstart > Connect your data, let Elastly learn your pricing, and review your first recommendations. Elastly turns your real catalog, costs, and sales history into price recommendations you can see the reasoning behind and approve. Nothing changes your live prices until you say so. Here's the shortest path from zero to your first recommendation. Elastly prices from your own data, so the first step is to connect the system you already run on. Pick one: Set up once by an administrator. Also syncs quotes. A one-click install. Syncs your catalog at the variant level. Connect with a store API token. Connect with a consumer key and secret. The first sync pulls everything, then future syncs only fetch what changed. See [Connectors](/docs/connectors) for how syncing works, and for the sources coming next. **Why it needs more than a price list.** Elastly learns from real outcomes, so it needs your customers and your sales, not just a list of products and prices. That's why it connects to the system where your selling actually happens. Once your data is in, Elastly builds a price for each product from the ground up. It starts with a base margin for the product's category, then adjusts for the things that change the right price: the customer's segment, their region, payment terms, whether cost is trending up, and how demand is moving. Every adjustment is a plain, visible step, not a black box. Over time it also learns from what actually sold. When a quote is won or lost, Elastly nudges the margin for that customer and product by a tiny, careful amount, so pricing gets sharper the more you sell. See [Pricing strategies](/docs/strategies) for how the price is built. Guardrails are the limits every recommended price has to stay inside: a margin floor it can never dip below, an optional ceiling, a cap on how far a price can move at once, and how prices round. New workspaces start with sensible defaults, and you tune them in the Control Center. A strategy can tighten a guardrail for its products, but it can never loosen one. **Guardrails always win.** A recommended price is clamped to your guardrails before you ever see it, and the recommendation tells you which guardrail had the final say. See [Guardrails & rules](/docs/guardrails). Elastly queues the products whose price should move, and only those. Each one comes with its reason and the drivers behind it, so you can see why before you decide. Approve or reject in the review queue, or let prices apply on their own when they're safely inside your guardrails. Every change is recorded, so you can track realized margin over time. See [Explainability](/docs/explainability) for what travels with each recommendation.