Price Monitor

The Price Monitor collects and compares the prices of the own products with those of the competitors. For this purpose the Price Monitor gathers the product and price data for pre-defined products and competitors directly from the websites of the own e-shop and those of the competitors. The collected prices are compared and viewed to the users in the form of a price table as well as a graph (see next Figure).

Preparation

For using the Price Monitor function the users only need to register their e-shop to the E-COMPASS cockpit as described in Section "Registration and System Configuration". The information of a Google Analytics account or a PIWIK installation is not required to use the function.

Configuration

After having registered to the E-COMPASS Cockpit you need to go to the Price Monitor function by a click on the button “Price Monitor” within the main menu of the on-line service (see following Figure).

For being able to view collected and compared price data the Price Monitor first needs to collect data for certain products and specific competitors. For this purpose you initially need to define so called “price collection jobs” which specify the products and competitors for which the prices shall be collected and compared. The jobs configuration section can be reach by a click on the “Configurator” link within the Price Monitor (see next Figure).

Within the Configurator you need to define products, competitors and jobs as collection tasks for the Price Monitor. The information is determined by the following steps of "Product definition", "Competitor definition" and "Job definition".

Product definition

The definition of products means to specify the product for which prices shall be collected. You can add a new product by a click on the button “Add product”. An overlay form appears as shown in the following Figure.

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