MetaLocator

Evaluating retailers for inclusion in a Where to Buy program

What makes a good retail partner?

Not all eCommerce websites are good candidates for price monitoring.  This article provides a series of criteria we look for.

Importing products for price monitoring requires some special fields

Retailer logos are shown to your visitors when displaying options for purchase.

As purchases are made on affiliate networks, they can be tracked as they happen, manually imported via the Dashboard or via SFTP

When product crawling fails, or is blocked, manual updates can be enabled.

For where to buy, sometimes manually updating a price or availability may be necessary

When products are not accessible from retailer Websites, we un-publish them automatically

Some affiliate programs don't include visit-level tracking.  This strategy allows for mapping of program tags for campaign attribution.

Sometimes a campaign excludes a retailer or retailers.  This article shows you how to hide a retailer without un-publishing.

When products change SKUs this procedure ensures they stay matched and accurate in Where to Buy

MetaLocator tracks price history as it monitors prices

When you want to redirect users to specific pages instead of group search term driven retailer search results, follow these instructions

We automatically monitor when retailers start carrying your products, but you can force the system to update quickly if needed.

The Retailer API produces ready-to-use results by SKU, Group or Global contexts

This section covers topics related to our price monitoring platform and Where to Buy 