Automate price monitoring and track the market

Every product on your watch list receives a base-frequency crawl, hourly, every four hours, or daily, depending on traffic volume and marketplace latency rules. You can tag “priority” SKUs (e.g., high‐margin or loss-leader items) for turbo sampling; these receive a delta check as often as every ten minutes during business hours or promotional events. Cadence is just a slider in your dashboard, so adjusting from daily to hourly monitoring is a two-click change and takes effect on the next crawl cycle.

Data lands wherever you like: REST and GraphQL endpoints for real-time pulls, webhooks for push-style streams, SFTP and S3 drops for batch files, and native connectors for Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift. Each record arrives in a normalised schema, SKU, competitor ID, region code, currency, list price, promo price, timestamp, so you can pipe it straight into a repricer or BI dashboard without transformation scripts. For Tableau or Power BI users, a pre-built extract refreshes visualisations on the schedule you set.

The crawler captures three layers of pricing data: the visible list price, any inline promo banners, and coupon metadata gleaned from page markup or browser-side API calls. Machine-learning classifiers label each price as “Base,” “Promotion,” or “Voucher-conditional.” When a discount is timer-based or requires a code at checkout, the system flags it separately so your repricer can decide whether to match, ignore, or only adjust during the same promo window. Historical price trails preserve every fluctuation, letting analysts spot trends versus one-day anomalies.

Yes. During each page fetch we also record in-stock flags, quantity limits, and shipping selectors. For marketplaces that expose seller delivery fees through an API, those charges are appended to the price record, producing a “landed cost” column. This means your margin calculations can compare not just headline price but the total a shopper pays at checkout, revealing under-the-radar tactics like low price + high shipping that erode competitiveness.

For SKUs covered by Minimum Advertised Price agreements, you load the policy file (SKU → MAP threshold) once. The monitoring engine then triggers an instant alert, email, Slack, Teams, or webhook, whenever it detects a public price below the allowed floor. Each alert includes screenshot evidence, the violating seller’s ID, the exact price delta, and a 30-day violation history so account managers can escalate with iron-clad documentation. A weekly compliance digest summarises total infractions by brand and marketplace, simplifying executive reporting and supplier score-carding.