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Contact UsMAP Compliance
Monitor prices on shopping engines & get alerted to unauthorized re-sellers
- Automated Monitoring: Provide a list of products and we’ll tell you if they ever fall below MAP
- Approved Re-Sellers: Tell us who should be allowed to sell your products and we’ll identify MAP violators
- Details: Get reports with everything you need to verify & halt violations, including screenshots
- Alerts: Schedule weekly reports to be notified automatically when violations occur
How MAP Compliance Works
MAP Compliance monitors shopping engines to ensure that retailers adhere to MAP rules for each product.
- Shopping Engines Monitored. Includes Google Shopping, PLAs, Amazon, eBay, Shopzilla, Pricegrabber, and others.
- Amazon Coverage: Provides near-real-time coverage of
Amazon sellers - MAP Violations. Detect when resellers advertise below-MAP prices.
- Unauthorized Resellers. Detect unauthorized resellers.
- Alerts. Get email alerts for MAP and reseller violations.
How it Works:
- Manufacturers provide a list of products, authorized prices, and authorized resellers (optional)
- Shopping engines are monitored and violations are flagged.
Who Can Benefit
Manufacturers who have the following needs can benefit the most:
- Need to monitor a Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) to prevent heavy discounting, protect distributor margins, and quickly identify violations
- Need to be alerted to unauthorized re-sellers for all or a specific list of products
The Challenge With MAP Compliance
- It’s a 24/7/365 activity that happens across multiple shopping engines
- The number of monitored products can be in the thousands
- Violations can appear and disappear quickly (i.e. during short promo periods)
Smarter Technology Can Solve The Problem
Many big-named retailers have told manufacturers they will not work with them if they allow their products to be sold for below MAP through other channels.
Manual monitoring is time consuming and prone to errors – let us show you how our technology can solve this problem.
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