Correcting Price Inconsistencies
When a product price is displayed on the Where to Buy tool but the resulting retailer website displays a different… read more
Importing products for retail product monitoring
Importing manufacturer products into MetaLocator is one of the first and ongoing steps in preparing a Where to Buy solution. … read more
What makes a good retail partner?
When choosing to link to another retailer for Buy Online (or offline) participation in your Where to Buy tool, annual… read more
Product Matching
When MetaLocator initializes a retailer for a given brand, all products from that brand available from the retailer are considered. … read more
Importing Retailer Offers
During the setup process, it is necessary to import offers from a retailer. This process imports the results from the… read more
Importing retailers into MetaLocator for product monitoring
Importing and adding retailers into MetaLocator is one of the first steps in monitoring price data for your Where to… read more
How do I trigger product discovery?
MetaLocator constantly monitors your retail partners for the appearance of previously un-stocked products. We do that in a manner that… read more
Importing Conversions for Where to Buy
MetaLocator collects confirmed conversions from retailer affiliate programs to support analytics for Where to Buy.
This conversion data can be… read more
Updating products with retailer-specific group links
Sometimes the results for a group search term on a particular retailer Web site do not present the best user… read more
Viewing pricing history for monitored products
Price history for a product can be viewed from the monitored product perspective which shows all retailer prices, or for… read more
Seamless SKU transitions
Some manufacturers release different product versions under new SKUs. As these new products are released, it is important for MetaLocator… read more
Hiding select retailers from the Where to Buy Interface
To hide a retailer from an Interface, login to MetaLocator and click Interfaces, then the name of the interface to… read more
Stock status definitions
In Stock
The product is known to be carried by the retailer and is currently available for purchase from the… read moreMapping Affiliate Tags to Campaigns
Historically Amazon has not allowed affiliates to include custom tracking tags in the link. This means that Amazon transactions are… read more
Product Offboarding
As products are released to the public on retailer Websites, the Onboarding Process finds them, and adds them to MetaLocator… read more
Updating logos for retailers
Retailer logos are often used to display links to your retail partners. According to the documentation, the logo image… read more
Manually adjusting product price or stock status
To update a product price, first click Products in the main navigation, and identify the product.
Click the product name… read more
Manual Price Updates
Introduction
Automatic product data gathering can occasionally be thwarted by advanced firewall solutions, scraper blocking technology using AI and other… read more