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.

Evaluating a retailer website for price monitoring

Importing retailers into MetaLocator for product monitoring

Importing products for price monitoring requires some special fields

Importing products for retail product monitoring

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

Updating logos for retailers

Product Matching

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

Importing Conversions for Where to Buy

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

Manual Price Updates

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

Manually adjusting product price or stock status

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

Product Offboarding

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

Mapping Affiliate Tags to Campaigns

Stock status definitions

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

Hiding select retailers from the Where to Buy Interface

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

Seamless SKU transitions

MetaLocator tracks price history as it monitors prices

Viewing pricing history for monitored products

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

Updating products with retailer-specific group links

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

How do I trigger product discovery?

Importing Retailer Offers

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

Retailer API

Correcting Price Inconsistencies

Integrating a product finder with an eCommerce platform

Retailer Commitment

TOU Exception Request

Where to Buy Button Integration

Building a product finder with MetaLocator

Bryan Nye

Michael Fatica

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

Where to Buy

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