How to Monitor Product Prices Online
Why Automate Price Tracking
Manually checking prices across multiple retailers is tedious and unreliable. Prices can change multiple times per day, and the best deals often last only hours. Automated price monitoring ensures you never miss a price drop on products you're watching.
Setting a Target Price
Before setting up monitoring, research the product's price history to determine a realistic target. Set your alert threshold slightly above the all-time low — this increases your chances of catching a deal while filtering out normal price fluctuations.
How Price Monitoring Works
AlertPulse visits the product page at your configured interval and extracts the current price. When it detects a price change, it sends you an alert with the old price, new price, and percentage change. You can set alerts for any direction — drops, increases, or target price reached.
Use Cases Beyond Shopping
Price monitoring isn't just for personal shopping. Businesses use it to track competitor pricing, monitor MAP (Minimum Advertised Price) compliance, and watch commodity prices. E-commerce sellers use it to dynamically adjust their own pricing based on market conditions.
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