What it can do
Match sellers against your authorised list, follow each listing through to re-check, get a morning email and a weekly report, and total the outcome any time.
The mechanism is always the same — read public listing pages at a fixed time each day, and record where every figure came from. Only the targets change.
Distribution
- Each product's countries, sellers, prices, matches and contracted-market status on one screen (the Where your products stand screen)
- Import your authorised-seller list and match sellers against it — match, not on the list, or cannot be identified (a store name alone is never treated as a match)
- Record listings by sellers not on the list for review
- Set an owner, a deadline and a status, and keep the history of what was done — the history is append-only
- Draft requests — to the seller or to the platform, in Japanese and English. A person approves and sends them
- Re-check — keep "still visible", "read but not there" and "could not be read this time" apart
- Look for new listings — on the major Japanese marketplaces, candidate listings you have not registered, inside your contracted markets, are searched for every day and laid out on the Find new listings screen
- Watch for recurrence — closed listings keep being matched; if one comes back, it is linked to the original case and you are told
- Report the outcome — time to notification, to action and to result, the breakdown of results, recurrences and the hours people spent (also as CSV)
Discounting
- Each morning, which seller's listing moved, from what price to what, on the same day and the same tax basis
- Normalised to tax-exclusive before comparing — a tax-inclusive figure minus a tax-exclusive one is not a discount
- Cross-country comparison, with the exchange rate and its publication date
- The same product under different spellings, grouped
- Every move is kept — each read records the seller, the price and the time
- If you register your own price, the gap to it
Removals and new listings
- A record of when a listing disappeared — the closest public signal to a sale
- A source that could not be read is recorded as unread, not as a removal
- New listings appearing
Showing the records to people
- Every record carries the seller, the URL, the time it was read and the rate
- CSV export, with a line for every source that did not answer
- API, into your own systems
- A morning message
- A weekly report — matching results, the listings to look at first, price drops, new sellers and progress on cases, every Monday morning by email (Japanese or English) and on screen (it can be printed or saved as a PDF)
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