Where to Buy

What makes a good retail partner?

Evaluating retailers for inclusion in a Where to Buy program

Written by Bryan Nye
Updated over a week ago

Evaluating a retailer website for price monitoring

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

Written by Michael Fatica
Updated over a week ago

Importing retailers into MetaLocator for product monitoring

Written by Bryan Nye
Updated over a week ago

Importing products for retail product monitoring

Importing products for price monitoring requires some special fields

Written by Bryan Nye
Updated over a week ago

Updating logos for retailers

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

Written by Michael Fatica
Updated over a week ago

Product Matching

Written by Bryan Nye
Updated over a week ago

Importing Conversions for Where to Buy

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

Written by Michael Fatica
Updated over a week ago

Manual Price Updates

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

Written by Michael Fatica
Updated over a week ago

Manually adjusting product price or stock status

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

Written by Michael Fatica
Updated over a week ago

Product Offboarding

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

Written by Michael Fatica
Updated over a week ago

Mapping Affiliate Tags to Campaigns

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

Written by Michael Fatica
Updated over a week ago

Stock status definitions

Understand stock status in MetaLocator

Written by Michael Fatica
Updated over a week ago

Hiding select retailers from the Where to Buy Interface

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

Written by Michael Fatica
Updated over a week ago

Seamless SKU transitions

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

Written by Michael Fatica
Updated over a week ago

Viewing pricing history for monitored products

MetaLocator tracks price history as it monitors prices

Written by Michael Fatica
Updated over a week ago

Updating products with retailer-specific group links

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

Written by Michael Fatica
Updated over a week ago

How do I trigger product discovery?

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

Written by Michael Fatica
Updated over a week ago

Importing Retailer Offers

Written by Bryan Nye
Updated over a week ago

Retailer API

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

Written by Michael Fatica
Updated over a week ago

Correcting Price Inconsistencies

Written by Bryan Nye
Updated over a week ago

Retailer Categories

Written by Bryan Nye
Updated over a week ago