Every week a price gap stays open is margin you give away, even a small one. 4pricing.net tracks competitor prices on the product URLs you choose, shows the lowest price on the market, and gives a recommended price that you apply yourself.
4pricing checks prices on the competitor shops you add by URL — for example Takealot, Makro, Game, Incredible Connection or Evetech — for the products you choose, from every hour upward. You get an alert on the first check that catches a change, the price history is kept, and an algorithm (not generative AI) calculates a recommended price. You decide what to change in your own store.
On top of monitoring, 4pricing prepares a briefing every day: what moved at your competitors, where you can raise a price without losing your position, where your margin is thinning and what is worth doing first. Every finding comes with the evidence it was built from and, where there is a basis for it, an estimated monthly value.
Your price changes only when you apply it manually, and the webhook goes only to the destination you set.
4pricing gives you the data through a REST API (with API keys), an alert webhook and a CSV or Excel export. There are no ready-made connectors for ERP, warehouse systems or marketplaces: what happens with the data is built by your own team or developers.
All data collected by 4pricing is available with API keys through a documented REST API: the current price of each competitor per product, the complete price history and the recommended price calculated by an algorithm.
The signed webhook sends an HTTP notification on alerts. 4pricing does not write prices into your shop or your ERP: you apply the recommended price yourself, manually. There are no ready-made connectors.
You add products and competitor shops by pasting the product-page URL, one link at a time.
CSV or Excel export runs on demand, in one click from the dashboard, with the complete price history. If you need a fixed cadence, call the same export from the REST API and schedule it yourself.
4pricing tracks the price shown on Takealot, Amazon.co.za or Makro like any other shop on your list and places it next to the rest of your competitors on the same product. When a competitor undercuts you, or when you are no longer the cheapest among the monitored shops, the alert reaches you at the first check that catches the change, together with the recommended price to get back in front.
You choose the shops: add any online shop by product URL — Incredible Connection, Game or eBay South Africa are only examples — and set a different check interval per product, from every hour. There are no ready-made connectors, and we do not guarantee that every shop can be read.
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4pricing.net is a price tracker for South African online retailers who want to know how their prices compare with their competitors. You decide which shops you follow — you add each one by product URL, for example Takealot, Makro, Game or Incredible Connection — and how often each product is checked, from every hour. You get an alert at the first check that catches a competitor changing a price, plus a recommended price calculated by the algorithm — sharp enough to win the sale, without giving away your margin.
We are upfront. Here is where 4pricing.net is not yet the right fit:
Paste the links to the product pages, yours and your competitors', one by one.
The system checks prices at the interval you set for each product, from every hour, and sends an in-app inbox alert and a signed webhook call at the first check that catches a change.
Review the recommended price and the competitor history, then decide: approve the proposed price or apply it yourself, by hand.
Automated monitoring with 4pricing compared with the ways competitor prices are usually checked by hand.
| Criterion | 4pricing.net | Manual check | Spreadsheet | Browser extension | Occasional check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic monitoring of the competitor product pages you add by URL | ✓ Yes | No | No | One shop only | No |
| Alerts on price changes | ✓ Yes | No | No | Tracked product only | No |
| Algorithm-based recommended price | ✓ Yes | No | Your own formulas | No | No |
| Price history kept per competitor | ✓ Yes | No | Only what you log | Tracked product only | No |
| Products added by pasting page URLs | ✓ Yes | No | Manual copy | No | No |
| Many competitor shops watched at once | ✓ Yes | One at a time | One at a time | One shop only | No |
