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USE CASE · E-COMMERCE MONITORING

See every change in your category the day it happens

Availability, listings, content and ranking across your own shops and the marketplaces you sell on — checked on a schedule, with a diff for every run.

Catalogues drift constantly: a variant goes out of stock, a reseller rewrites your description, a marketplace reshuffles a category page. Monitoring turns those invisible changes into a feed your category team can act on the same day.

Challenges

What makes catalogue monitoring hard

These are the problems that make in-house catalogue monitoring stall after the first few shops. Each one is handled by the stack below.

Thousands of pages, constant drift

A catalogue of 40k listings across a dozen shops changes somewhere every hour. Sampling by hand finds the changes you already suspected, not the ones that matter.

Stock-outs found too late

A variant that quietly goes out of stock at a reseller costs sales for days before anyone notices in a report.

Unauthorised sellers and content

Rewritten descriptions, wrong images and grey-market listings damage the brand — and only show up if someone is watching every page.

Marketplace pages differ by market

Ranking, buy-box and availability depend on the country you view from. One global crawl hides what your local buyer actually sees.

Diffs, not snapshots

Storing a fresh copy every run tells you nothing. The value is in knowing precisely what changed since the last check, and where.

Alerts have to reach people

A change nobody sees is not monitoring. The feed has to land in Slack, in a ticket or in the tool the category team already uses.

Why it matters

What changes once someone is always watching

The category team stops discovering problems from customers and starts hearing about them from the feed.

Stock-outs caught in hours

Availability is checked on every run, so a missing variant becomes a task the same day rather than a monthly surprise.

Brand presentation defended

Rewritten copy, wrong images and unauthorised listings surface as changes, with the page and the date attached.

Ranking movements explained

Category and search positions are tracked per market, so a drop comes with the context of who moved past you.

Less manual checking

Nobody browses competitor pages to build a status report. The exceptions arrive; the rest stays quiet.

Recommended products

The stack for e-commerce monitoring

Both products are bought separately. Collection does the work here; residential access keeps it continuous and correct per market.

CORE from $49 / 100k tokens

Data Scraping

Runs the checks and produces the diff: availability, price, content, images and category position, on the schedule you set per source.

Hourly or daily runs per shop
Change detection between runs
Webhooks and Slack alerts
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RECOMMENDED from $75 / 25 GB

Proxy IP

Keeps the series unbroken and market-accurate: residential exits in the countries you sell in, so pages render as a local buyer sees them.

Country and region targeting
Retries inside the same geography
No gaps from throttling
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A typical starting scope 40k listings across 11 shops, checked twice a day: one Growth token pack plus 150 GB of residential transfer. Scale either pack up as the catalogue or the cadence grows.

Questions about e-commerce monitoring

Anything you choose to watch: price, availability, title, description, images, badges, review count, or position on a category or search page. Each run is compared against the previous one.

As often as the pack allows — hourly for a short list of key listings, daily for a full catalogue. Cadence is set per source, so critical shops can run more often than the rest.

Yes. Every run can fire a webhook, so changes land in Slack, in a queue or in your own tooling. The dashboard keeps the full history either way.

Yes — marketplace listings, category pages and search results, per market. Ranking and buy-box changes are tracked alongside the product data.

Data Scraping does the monitoring itself. Proxy IP becomes necessary as soon as the pages you watch differ by country or start throttling repeated visits.

Start watching one category

Pick a category and the shops that matter, and we will set up the first change feed with you.