Where do competitor prices come from?
From the public Allegro offer search results for your products, read through the official Allegro API while the repricer runs and during the continuous sweep of your range. The lowest available price of each competitor per product is stored.
How up to date are competitor prices?
Offers with a repricer rule are checked as often as your plan allows, every 5 to 60 minutes. Salecare walks the other matched offers every hour, starting with those checked longest ago, and opening the competitor list on an offer refreshes prices older than 30 minutes. Next to each seller you see when their prices were last recorded.
How is price tracking in Salecare different from a price comparison site?
A price comparison site shows the buyer the cheapest offer. Salecare sets competitor prices against your purchase price and margin, so you see not only who is cheaper but also whether matching them still pays off.
Can I download the report?
Yes, you export both the market overview and the report on a specific seller to PDF. The seller report links straight to the offers, and the market overview to seller profiles.
Which plan has competitor price monitoring, and what about a missing purchase price?
Competitor analysis is available from the Business plan. Marking sellers who drop below your purchase price needs a purchase price on the product. When it is missing you still see who is cheaper and by how much, but without a judgement on whether matching pays off. You add purchase prices by file import or by the scheduled import from the wholesaler.
What if the competitor list holds an offer for different goods?
One barcode often covers a whole family of goods, so a single item in another size can stand next to your set. You exclude that offer, or the whole seller, from the comparison on the competitor list next to your offer, in this offer only or in every offer, or in the repricer settings for the whole company. An exclusion takes effect on the next price check and can be undone with one click.
Do my own Allegro accounts and auctions count as competition?
No. Your own Allegro accounts are never competition for each other and Salecare skips them automatically, including accounts connected later. Auctions are not compared either, because an auction price is the current bid, not a price the goods can be bought for.
Is tracking competitor prices allowed by the Allegro terms?
Salecare reads competitor prices through the official Allegro API, as a registered application, and sees only public buy now offers that any buyer can see. It never signs in to other sellers' accounts and fetches no Allegro pages outside the API.
How does Salecare match competitor offers to your product?
By the EAN code, which goes into the Allegro search as the search phrase. When the offer has no code, or the same code sits on different products of yours, the offer name is searched instead. Auctions, offers in another currency, offers in another condition than yours (by the Condition parameter, or by the title without it) and the offers Allegro adds to the results as similar are left out. The Competition tab and the PDF reports compare the item price without delivery. The Salecare repricer adds to a competitor's price only the part of their delivery that costs more than yours.
What about sets and multipacks?
Salecare does not detect the number of pieces in an offer on its own. Next to each competitor you see the title of their offer, so a set set against a single piece shows at once. You exclude such an offer from the comparison in this offer only or in every offer.