What to track, how often to check it, how to read the numbers, and when doing it by hand stops making sense.
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Competitor price monitoring means checking what other sellers charge for the products you sell, on a schedule, and keeping the results. Done well it answers three questions every day: where your price sits against the market, who moved, and whether a competitor ran out of stock.
The output is not one number. It is a price per competitor per product, each with the time it was seen, plus the history of those prices so a change can be told apart from a routine weekend promotion.
Most errors in price monitoring are matching errors: a pack of two compared with a single, last year’s model with this year’s, or a bundle with the bare product. Identifiers prevent most of them.
UPC and barcode lookups → How barcodes are matched to products, including shared barcodes and check digits.
Check as often as you can act. If prices are set once a week, a daily check is enough to see what changed; if you reprice during the day, or the category runs flash sales, you need several checks a day. Checking more often than you can respond only adds data.
| ShopSavvy for Business plan | Price (monthly) | Products | Refresh options |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $99.99 | Up to 50 | Daily, Weekly, Manual |
| Growth | $249.99 | Up to 150 | 4 hours, 12 hours, Daily, Weekly, Manual |
| Professional | $499.99 | Up to 300 | Hourly, 4 hours, 12 hours, Daily, Weekly, Manual |
| Enterprise | Quote | More than 300 | Custom |
Every plan starts with a 14-day trial. Prices come from tens of thousands of retailers; each one shows when it was last seen.
Competitor price gap calculator → Enter your price and your competitors’ to get the gap, index, rank, and the price that matches or beats the lowest.
A spreadsheet and a few minutes a day work for a handful of products. The time grows with every product, competitor and check.
For example, 50 products × 5 competitors × 2 checks a week is about 2,167 checks a month. At 2 minutes a check that is about 72 hours, or about $2,167 a month at $30 an hour, against Starter at $99.99 a month. Your own numbers may come out the other way, and the calculator on the ShopSavvy for Business page says so when they do.
Competitor price tracking spreadsheet → A free Excel and Google Sheets template with formulas for the lowest price, your gap and rank.
ShopSavvy for Business → Import products by URL, ASIN, barcode or model number, choose refresh frequencies by plan, and get email or web push alerts when prices or stock change.
If the prices need to land in your own system rather than a dashboard, a product data API gives you the same offers by request: the current price at every retailer for a barcode, ASIN or URL, with the time each was seen, and the history behind it.
Product data API guide → What a product data API returns, how matching and freshness work, and what it costs.
Checking what other sellers charge for the products you sell, on a schedule, and keeping each price with the time it was seen, so you know where your price sits, who changed theirs and who is out of stock.
As often as you can act on what you find. Weekly or daily is enough when you set prices weekly; categories with frequent promotions, or a business that reprices during the day, need several checks a day.
Plans start at $99.99 a month for up to 50 products, and every plan has a 14-day trial. More than 300 products is an Enterprise quote.
Yes. Decide first whether you compete with the marketplace’s own price, its third-party sellers or both, and keep them apart in your comparison, because one product can have many sellers at different prices.