AX/V/01 · E-commerce
Automation for e-commerce.
A shop does not need to remember to check prices, stock, reviews or feeds. We build systems that do it for it — from one-person operations to multi-marketplace pipelines.
AX/01 — Typical problems
- 01Checking prices of 10-50 competitors manually takes 5-15h/week of an employee
- 02Competitor cuts price Saturday, we react Wednesday
- 03Stock alerts on limited products lost in hundreds of emails
- 04Customer reviews from Allegro / Trustpilot / Google scattered chaos
- 05Product feeds across 8 marketplaces require manual corrections
AX/02 — What we build for them
- Daily price monitoring of 10-200 competitors with diff vs previous day
- Real-time stock alerts (push to Slack/SMS in <30s when product returns)
- Multi-marketplace feed sync (Allegro / Amazon / eBay / own store)
- Review aggregation from 5+ sources, sentiment scoring, complaint priorities
- Dynamic pricing rules (minimum threshold, margin, MSRP compliance)
- Restock detection for sneakers, limited drops, hype products
AX/03 — Related projects
OPS-24-B1
2.1M
products/day
Real-time pricing intelligence across 1,200 marketplaces
Resilient scraping with anti-bot routing, SKU normalization and 5-minute price-change webhooks into the client's repricing engine.
OPS-25-K7
+18%
margin on top SKUs
Price monitoring of 14 competitors for a 3-person shop
14 competitors monitored daily. 6 hours per week recovered in a 3-person team. €290/month retainer, payback in a month.
AX/04 — Industry FAQ
01My shop has 200 SKUs. Does price automation make sense?
If you check prices of >3 competitors >once a week, most likely yes. Break-even threshold: ~4h/week of manual work. Setup 1-3 weeks, retainer from €200/month.
02Will vendors notice I scrape their prices?
At comfortable rate (~1 request per 10-30s per target) and residential proxy pool — practically no. Same as manual checking, but at 3 AM by a bot instead of an employee at 11.
03What if a competitor changes their site?
Parser updates are in the retainer. A typical site changes layout 2-4× per year, fix takes 1-3h. You get a Slack alert that parser failed, we fix it usually in <24h.
04Is this legal?
Public price data → yes. Internal use (your analytics) → yes. Publication with attribution to a competitor shop → grey area, usually no. See our GDPR vs scraping guide.
05How much does it cost?
Setup €1500-5000 for a small shop (10-50 competitors), €5-15k for larger scale. Retainer €200-1500/month depending on number of targets and frequency.
Hitting a similar problem?
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