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The manufacturer dashboard compares what resellers charge for your products with your recommended retail price (RRP). This quickstart gets it to its first figures: you give it the price to compare with, tell it where to look for offers and which offers are your products, and run the first scrape. Open Pricing Intelligence > Manufacturer Dashboard as you go. Until the market you are viewing has data, the Overview tab shows a setup card with the first four steps below, each with a button that takes you to the page where you complete it. The setup checklist describes each step in full.

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Before you start

  • Your products are in the catalog and tracked. Add them in Catalog > Products, one by one with New product or with Data > Import products. Then turn on Track in Pricing Intelligence for each product you want to watch. See Products and Importing.
  • The pricing data provider is set up. Scrapes and match searches go through it, and until it is enabled and configured every scrape fails. See Pricing data provider.
  • You have the dashboard permissions. Opening the dashboard needs Manufacturer Dashboard; each tab and action has its own permission. See Permissions.

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Get to your first figures

1

Set the reference price

Resellers are compared with your RRP. In Catalog > Price Levels, mark the level that holds your recommended retail prices Set as Recommended Retail Price, and enter those prices on your products. See Price levels.A market can use a different level instead: set it in the market’s Compared against field on the Markets page. Either way, the reference price must be in the market’s currency; offers in another currency are left out of every figure.
2

Choose where to look

Open Pricing Intelligence > Markets and click Add market for each country you want to watch. Then add at least one data source in that market in Pricing Intelligence > Data Sources. Click Add & add a source in the market dialog to do both in one go. See Markets and data sources.
3

Match your products

Open Pricing Intelligence > Product Matching and review the suggestions for your tracked products. Approve the listings that are your product and reject the rest. Products you have not reviewed are ignored by the dashboard. See Product matching.
4

Run the first scrape

In Data Sources, click Run on the source’s row, or set up a schedule. The dashboard starts recalculating about 30 seconds after the run finishes, and the setup card gives way to figures as soon as the first comparable offer is in.
5

Read the Overview

Back in Manufacturer Dashboard, the Overview tab opens with a verdict on compliance: the share of comparable offers within your tolerance of RRP (±5% by default) or covered by an agreed promotion, measured against your compliance target (90% by default). Under it, New, Restored, Deeper and Critical count what changed, and Where to act lists up to three things to do first. See Overview, price map and gaps.

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Next steps

Mark your authorised sellers

Tick Authorized Seller on the resellers you work with, so the Not authorised views mean something.

Set the tolerance and target

Decide how far from RRP counts as a gap, and what compliance you aim for.

Follow up with resellers

Open cases for resellers with gaps and message them.

Agreed promotions

Record promotions you allowed, so they do not count as gaps.