Analytics & ReportingPurpose
1.2. Automate data scraping of competitor prices on marketplaces for real-time benchmarking and pricing optimization.
1.3. Automate extraction, comparison, and reporting of top SKU price trends to enable pricing agility.
1.4. Automate consolidation of results with visual dashboards and scheduled alerts to decision-makers.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Manual initiate for ad-hoc competitor price checks.
2.3. API-trigger when new product listing or significant marketplace price change detected.
2.4. Automation via specific events such as quarterly review or promo launches.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: Automate fetching competitor product price details via API key and product ASINs.
• Sample: Configure polling for “GetCompetitivePricingForASIN”.
3.2. Google Cloud Functions
• Feature/Setting: Automate custom Python/Node.js scraping functions on timer.
• Sample: Deploy function scheduled via Google Cloud Scheduler.
3.3. Selenium (Cloud-based)
• Feature/Setting: Automate browser scraping; set up headless-run automation for pricing URLs.
• Sample: Schedule with Selenium Grid and CRON in the cloud.
3.4. Twilio SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Automate sending scheduled or threshold-based price update alerts by email.
• Sample: Configure automated email with SendGrid’s “Dynamic Templates”.
3.5. Slack API
• Feature/Setting: Automate posting report summaries to Slack channels.
• Sample: Use “chat.postMessage” for scheduled report delivery.
3.6. Google Sheets API
• Feature/Setting: Automate writing new competitor pricing data; append rows with timestamp.
• Sample: Use “spreadsheets.values.append” for scheduled updates.
3.7. Microsoft Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Automate data collection, analysis, and team notifications using flows.
• Sample: Configure scheduled “Recurrence” flow linked to HTTP/webhook calls.
3.8. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Automate multi-app workflows—scraping > analysis > notification.
• Sample: Multi-step Zap with APIs and Slack/Email action steps.
3.9. DataForSEO API
• Feature/Setting: Automate pricing data retrieval across e-commerce channels.
• Sample: Set scheduled requests to “SERP Competitors” endpoint.
3.10. Apify
• Feature/Setting: Automate marketplace website crawling/price extraction.
• Sample: Schedule “Actor” runs with web-scraping settings for URLs and data schema.
3.11. Google Data Studio
• Feature/Setting: Automate reporting dashboards pulling from Sheets/BigQuery.
• Sample: Set scheduled data refresh for competitor pricing datasets.
3.12. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Automate raw data consolidation and instant search/reporting capability.
• Sample: Schedule “Airtable Automations” to process new data records.
3.13. Tableau Online
• Feature/Setting: Automate visual analytics and real-time scheduled reporting.
• Sample: Set extracts refresh schedule from connected data sources.
3.14. Looker Studio
• Feature/Setting: Automate pulling, joining, and visualizing pricing data.
• Sample: Configure refresh interval for pricing data connectors.
3.15. Notion API
• Feature/Setting: Automate sending summarized competitor pricing notes.
• Sample: Schedule database entry creation with API token.
3.16. Trello API
• Feature/Setting: Automate pricing update task cards for merchandising team.
• Sample: Use “createCard” API and automate card assignment rules.
3.17. Monday.com API
• Feature/Setting: Automate timeline updates and tracking for pricing decisions.
• Sample: “Create item” mutation via scheduled call.
3.18. Salesforce API
• Feature/Setting: Automate competitor analysis records in CRM tied to wholesale SKUs.
• Sample: “CreateRecord” for custom pricing objects.
3.19. HubSpot API
• Feature/Setting: Automate insight pushing to sales teams’ dashboards.
• Sample: “Create Engagement” for automated competitor analysis feed.
3.20. Pabbly Connect
• Feature/Setting: Automate cross-platform connections for data fetch and report delivery.
• Sample: Set “Scheduler” trigger for multi-app pricing automation.
Benefits
4.2. Enables automated, timely adjustments to wholesale pricing with actionable insights.
4.3. Automator reinforces pricing intelligence by automatedly capturing external signals.
4.4. Reduces manual analysis, automating reporting for actionable business decisions.
4.5. Automation ensures always up-to-date pricing awareness in a rapidly changing marketplace.