MAP Monitoring

To start MAP monitoring, we need two things from you: a list of the distributors or resellers you want to monitor, and ideally a MAP API feed or price list showing what the minimum advertised price should be for each product. With that information, we build bots that check each distributor's listed price against your MAP requirements on the schedule you choose. If you don't have a formal API feed, a spreadsheet listing your products and their MAP values is enough to get started — we'll match that against what we find on each distributor's site.

How often we check depends on your settings and how aggressively your distribution channel tends to violate MAP. For categories where violations are rare, a daily check is usually sufficient to catch problems before they spread. For categories where one reseller breaking MAP tends to trigger others to follow within days, we recommend checking several times a day so violations get flagged and addressed before the price drop becomes the new market norm. We'll help you choose a schedule based on how your specific distribution channel has behaved historically.

When we detect a price below your MAP threshold, the system automatically generates a report documenting the violation — including the distributor, the listed price, and when it was observed. This report can be sent to you directly, to the distributor as a notice requesting a price correction, or both, depending on how you want to handle enforcement. Having a documented, timestamped record of each violation also gives you leverage in any conversation with a distributor who disputes that they broke the agreement, since the evidence is collected automatically rather than relying on someone manually noticing the price change.

No, you don't pay separately for proxies, web servers, or scraper maintenance — all of that infrastructure is included in your subscription. Distributor and marketplace websites often try to detect and block automated monitoring, which requires rotating proxies and ongoing technical maintenance to keep working reliably. Rather than charging extra for this infrastructure or passing the cost on as a surprise line item, we bundle it into the subscription price so the cost you see upfront is the cost you actually pay each month.