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MAP monitoring for brands
Combating Price Dumping in Online Stores
- MAP control on sites
- Market Dumping Control
- Website MSRP monitoring
- Price Dumping Elimination
- Price control in online stores
- Monitoring compliance with MAP/MSRP by clients
We always know exactly in which online stores and marketplaces your products are sold
We parse prices on any site from once a day to once every 15 minutes
We can accurately determine which of your partners was the first to violate your pricing policy
We can not only detect dumping and sale of fakes, but also effectively deal with it
Price monitoring in online stores
How the service works
Our site for monitoring prices in online stores
- We find all points of sale of your goods on the Internet.
- We help to select the most indicative Internet resources for regular monitoring.
- We conduct a qualitative comparison of your goods with goods on the websites of sellers.
- We set up the collection of data you need for analysis: prices, promotions, availability, delivery.
- We determine the optimal frequency and time for collecting information for analysis.
- We achieve the convenience of working with reports and their integration into your accounting systems.
Price monitoring in online stores
- You get up-to-date monitoring of the prices of online stores for your products.
- Online retailers receive reports that they violate your sales policy and intellectual property rights.
- We monitor the completeness and quality of the information collected for you.
Program for monitoring prices in online stores
- You have complete information about the prices of your goods at any time.
- See what your decisions lead to changes in the market.
- You can evaluate the quality of your partners and clients.
Price monitoring of online stores
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Customer Reviews of Price Control
Clients and partners talk about our work
Andrey Zelepugo
At the beginning of 2016, we decided to control retail prices in the Internet space. We found guys who offered to automate this process. We were satisfied with the trial result and at the moment we are monitoring most of the IMs, including stores at PROM.
However, I note that knowing about the situation on the market and having a controlled situation are not the same thing.
The control system REALLY makes it easier to find dumping shops, but it does not fix prices.
To really maintain the MAP/ MSRP, the daily work of a manager is necessary, who will ring up stores with an underestimated (or overpriced) price.
Business unit Director Batteries, Spectrum Brands
When our company faced the need to monitor the distribution of Varta products in online stores, we turned to Price Control. More than 80 online stores were included in the monitoring, most of which provided outdated or frankly irrelevant information on their pages. To solve this problem, we were offered the services of regular monitoring of online stores and the hotline aggregator, including through individual contact with each of the stores.
During the period of our cooperation, the number of online stores displaying irrelevant or incorrect information has decreased tenfold. Daily monitoring is presented in the form of convenient informative reports, and the control department promptly responds to each new seller who is included in the monitoring.
We thank Price Control for its productive and professional work and for solving our problems. We recommend them to every company that wants to put things in order in its segment of the Internet market.
Vladimir Reshetnik
We started working with the project in September 2015. At that time, non-compliance with the recommended selling price by online stores had already become a pressing issue and the proposal that came from the project was accepted without discussion - we must try!
For the test period, we connected 10 online stores for control, which included both large and small sites. During testing, the project showed itself from the best side. We not only obtained an evidence base for explicit dampeners, but also identified tricksters who started dumping only on weekends or at night, and especially “advanced” dampeners revealed the IP addresses of computers from which monitoring was carried out and personally showed the “correct” prices for them.
The service dealt with all the problems that arose quickly, thanks to the guys for their responsive work and fine-tuning the monitoring to our requests.
Now we have switched to a package of 20 stores and 1000 Monitoring items. All our customers, both online stores and wholesalers, noted a significant improvement in the market environment. The seller's profit from the sale of our product has increased, which made our product more interesting against the background of competitors.
The next stage is the fight against violators of online stores, on which we have no direct influence. But for this task, the guys already have a solution - legal support.
Ivanchenko Andrey Grigorievich
Back in 2016, we began cooperation with the project team. More than a year used only the monitoring service. We regularly received reports and tried on our own to influence violators of retail recommended prices. There was an effect, but it took a very long time to influence the violators. Work on influencing violators through our dealers did not give a real result. Our employees did not have enough time to work with online stores. There were still violations.
By the end of 2017, they actually planned to abandon the service. In November 2017, we decided to use the “Antidumping” service. Already in the first month of work, dumping fell several times. By outsourcing the work of influencing violators, we freed up the working time of our employees and got a certain result thanks to the perseverance of the Antidumping project team.
After six months of cooperation, less than 5% of the total number of our clients work on the Internet at low prices. Significantly reduced calls to the marketing and sales department from our partners about the violation of retail prices by others.
In general, we are satisfied with the result. We are also pleased that the project management is ready for quick and flexible changes for its regular customers.
Pavlichenko Maxim
Our representative office does not sell products. Importers work, and we help them build a profitable business.
For a long time, the problems of pricing on the Internet did not concern us directly. With the advent of our products in large online stores, the issue of dumping has become acute.
There were no free "hands" at the representative office, we decided to find them on the side. At the beginning of 2017, they gave the Pricecontrol project one store to work on. They completely removed our trademarks from it. By the end of 2017, 40 stores were put into operation. In five months, the guys completely leveled the situation in them.
Today we have entered a new stage of cooperation. Pricecontrol employees themselves find violators of our pricing policy and automatically include them in the work. Now the situation with dumping in the Internet channel is controlled and is constantly improving. Of the special advantages of the project, I can note that we pay only for the result achieved.
Roman Goshchuk
Accent Electronic is the main national provider of solutions in the field of IT, telecommunications, construction and energy in the Republic of Moldova.
Working since 1991, we have become the largest distributor in Moldova and in the region, uniting about 70 world brands. The volume of price analytical information on numerous commodity items has grown so much that it required the allocation of a separate structural unit, as well as partial automation of the process of collecting price information, both for retail and wholesale prices.
Thanks to Price Control, we managed to solve not only the task of daily collecting information on hundreds of items from dozens of online stores, with absolute accuracy and the practical absence of significant errors, but also to fully automate many processes for collecting price and configuration information on key commodity items.
The management of the Price Control company met us halfway and agreed to carry out the difficult work of developing unique tools that we successfully use to compete in the current crisis.
Cooperation with Price Control helps to increase the efficiency of the brand management team by providing timely price information and ensuring constant monitoring of the market.
Viktor Hurudghi
Compliance with recommended retail prices is very important for our business. We cannot afford to neglect this issue and let this process take its course.
For some time we tried to monitor prices on our own, but we realized that it took a lot of time and the results were questionable.
We contacted Price Control in 2022, and we have been cooperating for about two years now. During this time, the situation with price compliance has changed radically for the better. According to the reports and statistics, you can see who and when violated the price. The reports and service are informative and easy to use. Today we monitor about 17 of the largest stores.
The monitoring system facilitates the work of price compliance and makes it effective.
Along with monitoring, we also get market research (parsing), received an informative report in a convenient form.
We are satisfied with the work of the Price Control company, we will continue to cooperate.
Also want to point out the high competence of the employees and the head of the company.
FAQ
frequently asked questions
Is it possible to fight price dumping on the Internet?
We collect prices daily on the websites of online stores and marketplaces.
From you, we receive information about the MAP/ MSRPs and MSRPs installed today.
Our system compares the prices of sites with those set by you. The result of the comparison is visible in your personal account and in the reports that we send you by e-mail.
Price controls on the Internet must be consistent. The absence of dumping today does not guarantee that it will not appear tomorrow.
How to find dumping on our products on the Internet?
To search for dumping, we must first find all the sellers of your goods on the Internet.
This is what our brand representation search service does. Next, we set up the collection of prices for all your sellers.
After identifying all the sellers that are important for your business, we monitor their prices, monitor the MAP on your website and identify dampers.
Price controls on the Internet should take place regularly. The absence of dumping today does not guarantee that it will not appear tomorrow.
Monitoring prices on the Internet - is it legal?
Most sellers on the Internet do not hide their prices from potential buyers. On the contrary, by all available means they are trying to show them to their customers in the most favorable light.
We do price collection – we monitor prices from the pages of marketplaces and online stores completely legally, acting like any interested consumer of the goods of these sites.
We simply automate the monitoring of prices for the entire offer of goods on the Internet, monitoring the prices of competitors for these goods and displaying them in reports convenient for commodity producers in your personal account.
Dumping of the market by one of the players - what does it lead to?
Price dumping in the Internet channel is a fairly common phenomenon for the market today. Non-compliance with the RRP / MRP due to the importation of parallel imports or trade in counterfeit goods is not at all uncommon, both in individual online stores and on marketplaces.
Dumping the price market is a very dangerous phenomenon for any supplier to the Internet channel. Information about the dampinger will become known to every Internet sales participant in a few hours. After the first player, the price of the second will collapse, followed by the third, and so on until a complete collapse.
The product will be sold with a minimum margin, and after a while market leaders will begin to refuse it – those who spend a lot on marketing and sell a lot. Instead of sales growth, there will be a rejection of your goods by the main players. Serious work will be required to protect your intellectual property rights on the Internet.
What should I do if dumping of our products is found on the Internet?
The most important thing is to understand the reason for dumping in online stores.
Often, it is enough to simply inform the dumping site about the presence of MAP/ MSRPs or MRPs for working in the Internet channel.
It happens that sites work with contraband or counterfeit goods. In this case, simple exhortations are not enough. You need activities to protect your brand – claim work and appeal to law enforcement agencies. – claim work and appeal to law enforcement agencies.
What are the main reasons for the dumping of online stores?
Shops dump prices for very different reasons. Dumping shop on purpose or by accident, what is its today’s goal will help you to determine our article “Dumping from A to Z” Next, I will give several possible options.
Often stores no longer sell your product, but do not change prices on product cards.
There are cases when sites use dumping on your brand to get traffic to their site and try to switch visitors to buy goods from other manufacturers.
Not infrequently, stores enter into price wars with their competitors and dump your assortment.
The exact reason can be found out only after a detailed analysis of market prices and negotiations with the trading platform
Is MAP Monitoring and RSRP Monitoring the same thing?
The minimum retail price (MAP) and the minimum recommended price (MSRP) most often mean the same thing.
There is no fundamental difference between these terms. Historically, one organization or industry tends to use one term more often than another.
Accordingly, the control over compliance with the MAP and MSRP is the same procedure.
Our service has extensive experience in solving such problems.
How to monitor the prices of online stores?
The question of how to monitor prices in online stores cannot be answered unambiguously. There are many ways – from manually bypassing sites to complex automatic price monitoring systems. The choice of method will largely depend on the task that is set for monitoring prices and the budget that you are ready to allocate for this.
We offer our customers a full range of price control on the Internet. From searching for sites selling your TM to regular parsing of prices from them. We ourselves do the comparison (matching) of your products with the products of the sites. For the convenience of work, we provide a Personal Account with many reports and a history of prices on the market.
To order a service, contact us!
About monitoring the prices of online stores
Price monitoring in online stores for brands is the process of regularly collecting prices from the pages of online stores, marketplaces and price aggregators with further checking them for compliance with the manufacturer’s sales policy. Price monitoring can be done manually or using special software - a site price parser. It is much more convenient to entrust automatic monitoring of prices of partners and competitors to professionals who are familiar with all the intricacies of price parsing on the Internet.
Price control in online stores is the process of examining and comparing data from the systematic collection of prices, promotions, discounts, gifts, free shipping, and store availability in order to determine the true cost of purchasing goods by the end consumer at each site.
Brands and their authority are built over the years. Large expenditures of effort and money are spent on their promotion and promotion.
Interest in your products from the retail side is determined by their possible sales volume and guaranteed margin. Pricing based on a transparent sales policy becomes a significant competitive advantage. The rapid development of online commerce has led to new opportunities in promoting your products to new countries and regions. A negative vector for the development of your sales on the Internet can bring dumping on your products from some Internet sites. MAP/ MSRP control, MRP control makes it possible to timely detect violations of your pricing policy on the Internet.
We will help you find all the "negligent" sellers of your products in a timely manner and regularly monitor their impact on prices on the Internet.
We can also conduct a control purchase for you at a site that violates the terms of sale of your TM. This will allow you to find out the channels for your brands to enter the Internet and punish those responsible for violating the policy.
You can order a control purchase or MAP monitoring by contacting us in any way convenient for you.
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