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# Quickstart for manufacturers

> Set up the manufacturer dashboard and see how resellers hold your recommended prices.

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](/pricing-intelligence/manufacturer-dashboard/setup-checklist) describes
each step in full.

## 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](/catalog/products) and [Importing](/catalog/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](/administration/pricing-data-provider).
* **You have the dashboard permissions.** Opening the dashboard needs **Manufacturer Dashboard**; each tab and action
  has its own permission. See [Permissions](/pricing-intelligence/manufacturer-dashboard/setup-checklist#permissions).

## Get to your first figures

<Steps>
  <Step title="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](/catalog/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.
  </Step>

  <Step title="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](/pricing-intelligence/markets-and-data-sources).
  </Step>

  <Step title="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](/pricing-intelligence/product-matching).
  </Step>

  <Step title="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.
  </Step>

  <Step title="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](/pricing-intelligence/manufacturer-dashboard/overview).
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Next steps

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Mark your authorised sellers" icon="badge-check" href="/pricing-intelligence/merchants">
    Tick **Authorized Seller** on the resellers you work with, so the **Not authorised** views mean something.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Set the tolerance and target" icon="sliders-horizontal" href="/pricing-intelligence/manufacturer-dashboard/settings">
    Decide how far from RRP counts as a gap, and what compliance you aim for.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Follow up with resellers" icon="messages-square" href="/pricing-intelligence/manufacturer-dashboard/cases">
    Open cases for resellers with gaps and message them.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Agreed promotions" icon="calendar-check" href="/pricing-intelligence/manufacturer-dashboard/agreed-promotions">
    Record promotions you allowed, so they do not count as gaps.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>