Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) monitoring

Minimum Advertised Price Monitoring

Stay on top of your resellers with Price2Spy and protect your brand value in real-time.

Monitor and document Minimum Advertised Price violations.

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Why is MAP monitoring important?

It is crucial for your business success and brand reputation to know whether resellers adhere to your MAP policy. Once established, MAP policy sets boundaries to protect your brand image, but without continuous monitoring, you will hardly detect MAP violations.

To successfully enforce the policy, you must have established control over the prices of your products in the marketplace, regardless of who the seller is. When resellers are aware of your effort to control product prices, they will most likely sell following the policy in order not to risk your business cooperation.

Who is it for?

Brands and manufacturers

The Minimum Advertised Price monitoring tool is meant for brands and manufacturers who have established MAP policy but failed to enforce it. As the process is missing between establishing and enforcing, Price2Spy offers the solution – a tool that continuously monitors and detects MAP violations in real time. This allows you, as a brand/manufacturer, to act accordingly and adjust your business to new market conditions.

Say goodbye to times when you were unable to be in control of your brand’s value.

The benefits of using the Price2Spy MAP monitoring tool

With Price2Spy, you will never miss a MAP violation.

You will be notified and provided with evidence to act as you think is best for the success of your business.

MAP policy violation alerts

This Price2Spy’s mechanism alerts you as soon as a violation occurs. You will get the following indications: alert emails, product list, product section, price matrix report, pricing dashboard, the price below map report, and screenshots.

Screenshots available

Screenshots are our ultimate tool for brands and manufacturers looking for evidence of MAP policy violations. The screenshots will be recorded and saved in your account for easy access whenever needed. The capturing screenshots add-on is available to both Basic and Premium users.

Brand value protection

MAP monitoring is the ultimate solution for brands that aim to maintain and protect their reputation. Often, customers link price to product quality, therefore, don’t miss being notified every time a reseller violates your minimum advertised price policy.

Prevent chain reaction

A pricing chain reaction happens when one retailer lowers a product price below MAP and thus drags the average market product price down as the retailer’s competitors will aim to match the lowest product price. This can be prevented if you carefully monitor the market and detect the first MAP violation before the chain reaction starts.

Reports

Price2Spy notes every instance of MAP violation with a chosen color. Orange is our default color for marking MAP violations. By all means, you can customize the Price below MAP report just as every other Price2Spy report.

Unlimited monitoring

Price2Spy can monitor prices on the most complex websites with advanced bot protection. Also, we can monitor regular eCommerce websites and marketplaces (Amazon, eBay, etc.) in any language and currency.

Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) monitoring

How it works?

Start your Free 30-day Price2Spy trial account.
Let us know which sites you’d like to monitor. If you don’t know which websites to monitor – no problem, we can do website discovery for you.
Price2Spy needs to know which products you’d like to monitor. You can either match products across competitor sites yourself, or ask us to do this for you
And that's it! From the moment product URLs have been entered in Price2Spy, it starts working for you: each day it will automatically check if the price on any of the online stores you have provided has changed.

What can a MAP monitoring tool be used for?

The main purpose of a MAP monitoring tool is to help you successfully MAP policy enforcement aiming to protect your brand image.

Brand protection

Continuous market monitoring enables prompt reaction.

Screenshoots

Supporting evidence is available at all times.

25+ reports & email alerts

With Price2Spy, the alerts come to you in real time.

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