Demand & Pricing
Real-Time Price Monitoring
Track competitor prices, promos and surge across platforms — and get alerted the moment a rival moves.
// price feeds as frequent as your scope needs
| platform | item | price | change | ts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swiggy | Veg Biryani | ₹228 | -₹20 | 14:02 |
| Blinkit | Amul Butter 500g | ₹275 | +₹6 | 14:03 |
| Zepto | Coke 750ml | ₹40 | 0 | 14:03 |
Overview
What is real-time price monitoring?
Real-time price monitoring is the continuous tracking of product prices, promotions and dynamic surcharges across online platforms. For food, grocery and liquor businesses, it means knowing — within minutes — when a competitor changes a price, launches a promo, or applies surge pricing on a delivery marketplace.
List price alone is misleading. The real shelf price a customer sees is shaped by coupons, bundles, platform fees and time-of-day surge. Monitoring only your own catalog leaves you blind to how rivals are actually positioned. With continuous price capture across delivery, grocery and liquor platforms, pricing teams can react to undercutting before it erodes share, time their own promotions against competitor calendars, and protect margins during surge windows. Because the data is captured at item and zone level across 15 markets, you see not just an average but where and when each price move happens — which is where pricing decisions are actually won or lost.
Capabilities
Always know where your prices stand
Multi-platform price intelligence with change detection and alerting.
Price-change alerts
Get notified when a competitor changes price, adds a promo or runs surge.
Promo detection
Capture coupons, bundles and time-boxed offers, not just list price.
Surge tracking
Watch dynamic pricing windows by hour, zone and platform.
Multi-platform coverage
One feed across delivery, grocery and liquor marketplaces.
Price history
Full item-level price timelines for trend and elasticity analysis.
Zone breakdowns
See how the same item is priced neighborhood by neighborhood.
What's included
Every price monitor ships with
Standard fields and outputs. Anything here can be extended, trimmed or customized to your scope.
Methodology
How does real-time price monitoring work?
Continuous capture, change detection and delivery — in four steps.
1 · Define the watchlist
You give us the platforms, items and zones to track.
2 · Capture continuously
We pull prices, promos and surge on the cadence your scope needs.
3 · Detect changes
Movements are diffed against the prior snapshot and flagged.
4 · Alert & deliver
Changes arrive as alerts, a feed or API into your systems.
Who it's for
Get answers like
Real questions our price monitor answers for teams across the food economy.
"Did a rival just undercut us?"
Real-time competitor price deltas by item.
"When do competitors run promos?"
Promo calendars by platform and zone.
"Where is surge hitting hardest?"
Surge windows mapped by hour and area.
Why FoodDataScrape
Why teams choose us for this
- Captures promos, coupons and surge — not just list price
- Item- and zone-level detail across 15 markets
- Change alerts delivered to your systems, not a locked dashboard
- Free proof-of-concept on your real watchlist
Delivery & integration
How is the data delivered?
Formats
CSV, JSON or direct API — pick what plugs into your stack. Custom schemas on request.
Refresh cadence
One-time pull, daily, weekly or real-time feeds, scoped to how fast your decisions move.
Integration
Drop into BI tools, data warehouses or apps. Webhooks and scheduled exports supported.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Refresh ranges from periodic pulls to near-real-time feeds depending on platform and scope.
Yes — discounts, bundles and time-boxed offers are captured alongside list price.
Yes — change alerts can be delivered via API or fed into your own systems.
Delivery, grocery and liquor marketplaces across our 15 markets, with custom additions on request.
Yes — dynamic surcharges are captured by hour and zone where platforms apply them.
Item, platform, price, promo, surge flag, zone and timestamp, ready for analysis.
Watch your market's prices in real time
Share the platforms and items you track. We'll return a free sample price feed with change detection.
