The Competitor Price Comparison plugin allows WooCommerce store owners to automatically adjust their product prices based on competitors’ pricing. It scrapes competitor websites, maps your products to theirs, compares offerings, and adjusts your pricing according to customizable rules.

Key Features:

Automated Competitor Price Scraping: Fetch competitor prices directly from their websites.
Product Mapping: Map your WooCommerce products to competitor products for accurate comparisons.
Customizable Pricing Rules: Set rules to adjust your prices based on competitor data (e.g., undercut by percentage or fixed amount).
Minimum and Maximum Price Thresholds: Ensure your prices stay within acceptable ranges.
Scheduled Price Updates: Use WordPress cron to schedule regular price updates.
Support for Multiple Competitors: Add and manage multiple competitor sources.
Action Scheduler Integration: Efficiently handle batch processing of product updates.
Detailed Logging: Keep track of pricing adjustments and scraping activities.

External Services

This plugin relies on external/third-party services to obtain competitor information and/or facilitate scraping. Specifically:

ScraperAPI
– What is it used for?
This service renders competitor pages or product URLs, allowing the plugin to scrape product titles and prices.
– What data is sent?
When a scraping event (such as an update or “Test Selector”) occurs, the plugin sends the competitor product URL to ScraperAPI’s endpoint.
– When is data sent?
Data is transmitted whenever you manually trigger a “test” (e.g., in the plugin’s admin UI) or when the scheduled pricing update runs in the background to fetch competitor pages.
– Domain:
https://api.scraperapi.com
– Terms of Service & Privacy Policy:
– ScraperAPI Terms
– ScraperAPI Privacy Policy

Please note it is your responsibility to review and comply with these services’ Terms of Use and Privacy Policies.

License

This plugin is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0 or later.

Notes

Disclaimer: Use this plugin responsibly and ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations regarding data scraping and competition.
Support: For any issues or questions, please contact the plugin author.

Credits

Author: Gavin Edley
Contributors: Thank you to all contributors and testers who have helped improve this plugin.