Competitor price intelligence
Stay ahead of the competition with automated price intelligence. Track competitor prices across thousands of products in real-time, receive instant alerts, and make data-driven pricing decisions.
Why choose our price monitoring service
Monitor competitor prices with updates as frequent as every 15 minutes. Get instant notifications when prices change, new products launch, or stock levels shift.
Track prices across Amazon, eBay, major UK retailers, and niche e-commerce sites. Our technology handles JavaScript-heavy sites and complex product variations.
Our AI-powered product matching identifies identical products across retailers, handling different SKUs, naming conventions, and product variations automatically.
Visualise pricing trends, market positioning, and competitive gaps through intuitive dashboards. Export reports in Excel, CSV, or integrate via API.
Access historical pricing data to identify seasonal patterns, promotional strategies, and long-term pricing trends of competitors.
All data collection is fully compliant with UK data protection laws and GDPR. We only monitor publicly available pricing data.
How price monitoring drives revenue
Without visibility into competitor pricing, most businesses either price too low (sacrificing margin) or too high (losing sales). Our clients typically discover they've been underpricing 15–25% of their product range relative to competitors—representing significant lost revenue.
Price monitoring reveals exactly where you have pricing power and where you need to be more competitive. It transforms pricing decisions from gut feelings into data-driven strategy.
When a major competitor drops prices on key products, every hour matters. Our real-time alerts mean you can respond within minutes, not days. You'll know about promotional campaigns, stock-outs, and pricing changes as they happen—giving you first-mover advantage in dynamic markets.
Based on analysis of 47 UK retail and e-commerce clients over 12 months.
Process
Six steps, in the order they happen. Product matching comes before anything is built, because that is where monitoring projects go wrong.
You give us your product list and the retailer and marketplace sites you want watched. We agree which prices matter (list price, sale price, multi-buy and member prices, delivery cost), whether stock status is needed, how often each site should be captured, and the change threshold that should trigger an alert.
Where a retailer publishes a GTIN or EAN we match on that. Where it does not, we match on manufacturer part number or SKU, then on title similarity (brand, model, size, colour, pack size). Ambiguous matches go to a manual review queue and are checked by a person. You sign off the matched list before monitoring starts, because a wrong match produces a confident, wrong alert.
A few hundred rows across your competitors so you can check the matches, the fields and the price handling before committing to anything.
A collector per site, capturing the current price, any was/now or promotional price, promotion text, stock status and delivery cost for each matched product and variant. Sites that hide the real price behind a basket, a postcode or a login are handled case by case and noted in the method.
We compare a sample of captured prices with what you see in a browser at the same time, and check variant handling, VAT presentation and promotions that only apply in the basket. Discrepancies are explained before the first delivery.
Captures run on the agreed schedule (daily, hourly, or every 15 minutes on the plans that include it). Every capture goes into a price history table per product per retailer, and an alert goes out when a price moves by more than your threshold or a product changes stock status. Retail sites change layouts often, so we watch field-level fill rates on each run: a broken selector shows up as a drop in coverage, not a silent gap. Every change and fix goes in a change log you can read.
A current prices table and the full price history, as CSV, JSON or Excel, through the API, loaded into your database, or dropped to S3 or SFTP on the agreed schedule.
By email, Slack or webhook when a price crosses your threshold, a product goes out of stock or comes back, or a new promotion appears.
Every column, its source, and how derived fields such as the effective unit price on a multi-buy are calculated.
The match method recorded against each row (GTIN, SKU, title, manual), so you can audit any pairing you doubt.
The checks run and their results, plus a documented method covering sites, capture times and matching rules, so the work can be repeated or audited.
Further reading
When it makes sense to build your own monitoring and when it does not.
Price Monitoring Software: Build vs Buy (UK Guide)How a UK fashion brand set up competitor monitoring and what it changed.
Retail Competitor Monitoring: UK Fashion Brand Case StudyThe approaches UK retailers take to monitoring and responding to competitor prices.
Retail Price Monitoring: Strategies UK Retailers Use in 2026Plans
Flexible pricing to match your business needs. All plans include dedicated support.
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FAQ
Our price monitoring services start from £299/month for tracking up to 500 products with daily updates. Professional plans at £899/month include hourly updates for 5,000 products, while enterprise solutions starting at £2,499/month offer unlimited products with real-time 15-minute updates. Pricing depends on the number of products, update frequency, competitor coverage, and required integrations.
Our automated price monitoring uses advanced web scraping technology to regularly check competitor websites and marketplaces. The system extracts product prices, availability, promotions, and shipping costs, then normalises this data for comparison. Machine learning algorithms match products across retailers even when naming conventions differ. You receive alerts when significant changes occur, enabling rapid pricing responses.
Yes, price monitoring is completely legal in the UK when conducted properly. Monitoring publicly available pricing data is considered fair competitive practice. UK Data Services ensures all monitoring complies with website terms of service, GDPR, Computer Misuse Act requirements, and UK competition law. We only collect publicly visible pricing information.
We maintain a 99.8% accuracy rate across all monitored prices. Our system includes multiple validation layers, automated quality checks, and human review for edge cases. We also monitor for anti-bot measures and adjust our methods to ensure consistent, accurate data collection.
Yes, we can monitor prices on Amazon UK, eBay UK, and virtually any e-commerce website. This includes major UK retailers like Argos, Currys, John Lewis, Tesco, as well as niche industry-specific sites. Our technology handles dynamic pricing, member-only prices, and promotional variations.
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