> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Quickstart for retailers

> Go from an empty catalog to your first competitor offers.

This quickstart takes you from an empty organization to the first competitor offers for your products. You put your
products in the catalog, tell Omnilinker what to compare them with and where to look, match your products with the
listings it finds, and run the first scrape.

## Before you start

* **The pricing data provider must be set up.** Omnilinker finds listings and collects offers through a pricing data
  provider (DataForSEO). It is configured on the **Data Sources** tab of the Pricing Intelligence settings group, under
  **Administration** > **Settings**: **Enable Google Data Source** is off by default, and a **Provider Type** and the
  provider's credentials must be filled in. Until then every scrape fails. Setting it up needs the **Data Source
  Schedule** > **Settings** permission. See [Pricing data provider](/administration/pricing-data-provider).
* **You need the permissions for each page.** A menu item you have no permission for is not shown. See
  [Users and roles](/administration/users-and-roles).

## Set up your first offers

<Steps>
  <Step title="Put your products in the catalog">
    Open **Catalog** > **Products**. Click **New product** to add products one by one, or **Data** >
    **Import products** to load them from an Excel file. See [Products](/catalog/products) and
    [Importing](/catalog/importing). If your products live in an ERP, you can sync them instead: see the
    [ERP integration overview](/erp/overview).

    Then turn on **Track in Pricing Intelligence** for every product you want to watch. It is off for new products.
    You can set it on the product, for many products at once (select them, click **Edit fields** and use
    **Update Pricing Intelligence Tracking**), or with the `Track In Pricing Intelligence` column of the import file.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set up price levels">
    Open **Catalog** > **Price Levels** and click **New Price Level** for each price list you keep, for example your
    shop price. Give each level the currency its prices are in. If you publish a recommended retail price, mark that
    level **Set as Recommended Retail Price**; only one level per organization can carry it.

    Then enter the prices on your products, or import them with **Data** > **Import prices** on the **Products** page.
    See [Price levels](/catalog/price-levels).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add a market">
    Open **Pricing Intelligence** > **Markets** and click **Add market**. Pick a country; its code, name and currency
    fill in. Use **Custom** for a market that is not a country. The code and currency cannot be changed later.

    In **Compared against**, choose the price level competitor offers should be measured against, such as your shop
    price. Leave **RRP (tenant default)** to use the level marked as the recommended retail price. The level must be in
    the market's currency.

    Click **Add & add a source** to go straight to the next step. See
    [Markets and data sources](/pricing-intelligence/markets-and-data-sources).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add a data source">
    Open **Pricing Intelligence** > **Data Sources**. With no sources yet, the page shows **Add your first data
    source** with one tile per provider; otherwise click **New data source**. Choose **Google Shopping**, name the
    source, select its **Market** (required) and set the language and location to search in.

    Click **Save**. The source is created idle; you run it once your products are matched.

    Omnilinker collects offers through Google Shopping today. The **Amazon**, **Ceneo** and **Allegro** tiles
    create a source, but offers for them are not collected yet.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Match your products">
    Open **Pricing Intelligence** > **Product Matching**. Your tracked products are listed there. Omnilinker searches
    the data source for newly tracked products on its own (**Auto-discovery on**). To search for every product that
    has no match yet, click **Find matches for all unmatched (N)**, check the estimate and click **Run discovery**.
    Searches go through the paid pricing data provider on your account, so the estimate comes first.

    When suggestions arrive, review them under **Awaiting review**: approve the listings that are your product and
    reject the rest. A product has no offers from a source until it is matched there. See
    [Product matching](/pricing-intelligence/product-matching).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Run the first scrape">
    Go back to **Data Sources** and click **Run** on the source's row. The row shows the run's progress, and you can
    expand it to see recent runs. Only matched products are scraped.

    To scrape regularly, click **Schedules**. It opens **Settings**, where schedules are kept on the **Scheduling**
    tab of the Pricing Intelligence group.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Read the offers">
    * **Pricing Intelligence** > **Offers** lists every offer found, with the merchant, the price and when it was
      seen.
    * **Pricing Intelligence** > **Product Overview** shows each tracked product against the market: its reference
      price, its market position and its competitors, as a table, cards or a matrix. See
      [Offers and product overview](/pricing-intelligence/offers).
    * **Pricing Intelligence** > **Merchants** lists the competitors behind the offers. Omnilinker adds them as it
      finds their offers. See [Merchants](/pricing-intelligence/merchants).
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Next steps

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Alert rules" icon="bell" href="/pricing-intelligence/alert-rules">
    Get notified when a competitor moves its price or your margin drops.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Repricer" icon="sliders-horizontal" href="/pricing-intelligence/repricer/how-it-works">
    Let rules propose new prices from competitor offers.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Price history" icon="chart-line" href="/pricing-intelligence/price-history">
    See how offer prices changed over time.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Key concepts" icon="book-a" href="/get-started/concepts">
    The terms used across Omnilinker.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>