Food price monitoring

The mechanism of food price monitoring

Step 1: Data collection

Maximum automated for minimum labor expenses.

Monitoring eStores

To collect data from Internet, technologies of parsing and grabbing are used.

Data collection is made with frequency up to several times per hour

Monitoring retail stores

In the web cabinet, the administrator assigns a task for monitoring for an auditor. After that, the auditor receives the task and photographs the food shelf using the Metacommerce application.

The neuro network recognizes price tags on the photo and defines the necessary parameters for recognition of goods.

Monitoring price lists of suppliers

To monitor file, a special email is registered on which price lists of suppliers of various formats are sent.

Price list monitoring is also possible at provision of API keys of suppliers

Step 2: Automatic comparison and classification

Each product obtained through Metacommerce is recognized under 12 comparison parameters, and is classified based on your market categories.

Name
Manufacturer’s item number
Store item number
Keywords with consideration
of morphology and synonyms

Barcode (EAN)
Link
Goods photo
Verification by stop words

Verification of price
Verification by duplicates
Verification by patterns
Verification by manufacturer’s
item number

Step 3: Transfer of the processed information

We provide the access to the web cabinet to view and check the data.

We set up API interaction with your corporate systems.

We send the necessary uploads using the schedule or the trigger.

Benefits and features of Metacommerce

Get timely, comprehensive, and reliable market insights

Cache page or photo price tag are available

Reports and notifications
by e-mail

Export data to
Excel or via API

Excel or via API
from 6 months

Unlock sales potential with unrivaled collection, analysis, matching, repricing and optimization solutions

We recommend the Metacommerce platform as a source of reliable and qualitative pricing information. The service provided by the company’s employees completely covers our interaction issues and allows us to focus on developing business and sector competencies.

The updated information from Metacommerce provides us with a clear image of the market and helps us to monitor prices and analyse our range of competitors, this allows us to react timely to changes and to manage our inventory and pricing policy.