Assortment & Availability Tracking

No. Our product tracking includes both online and some offline stores, based on the availability of publicly available product data. This provides businesses with the complete view of their products (installed) under multiple stores, so that they can make better inventory management decisions, distribution strategies and optimize product availability across all relevant retailers.

iWeb Scraping allows tracking the changing assortments of retail and posted to the “store”. By analyzing newly created trends and checking on which products have increased or decreased, retailers can develop strategies for assortment, determine how much inventory should be allocated to each retailer, and make sure retailers have products available through the channels that maximize sales.

iWeb Scraping can deliver structured assortment and availability data in several different formats including CSV, Excel, JSON and API. This allows businesses to integrate their analytics, inventory management systems and dashboards seamlessly. Businesses also have the ability to access real-time data, and therefore streamline their reporting and make well-informed decisions in relation to their inventory, assortment and competitive positioning at multiple retail and/or marketplace locations.

iWeb Scraping will track the assortments of product attributes, including brand, size, colour, packaging and SKUs for all monitor retailers and/or marketplaces. In addition to allowing companies to determine what items they are missing, tracking all store variations through iWeb Scraping creates opportunities for retailers to better manage their assortments to provide better inventory visibility and provide higher levels of decision-making capabilities to improve their overall performance.

Yes, iWeb Scraping can track several retailers and/or marketplaces simultaneously, thus giving businesses the ability to monitor stock levels, availability, and assortment of products across all channels at once. This comprehensive view enables businesses to better plan, improve their distribution efficiency and take timely actions to maintain product coverage, optimize inventory and respond promptly to competitive and market changes.

Yes. iWeb Scraping’s system is built to be scalable and has the capability to monitor thousands of goods from various vendors and markets at once. The company’s architecture allows them to be fully supported without having to worry about a delay and will provide all companies with consistent, full, and accurate information about the products, including ability to purchase, amount in stock, and type of items available in all channels being monitored for good decision-making.

iWeb Scraping provides flexibility in the frequency of updates. Now for instance, data may be updated in real time, once daily, once weekly, or based on when a vendor sells a particular item. Frequent updates make it easier for companies to act upon timely data. It also helps control their inventory and make quick decisions due to changing consumer preferences and supply chain constraints.

To ensure all data collected from various sources using iWeb Scraping is verified and validated via cross-checking. Errors or duplicate records found in data are flagged for review; all confirmed good records will be returned as a structured, validated document by iWeb Scraping enabling clients to receive highly reliable, accurate and actionable insight into issues such as inventory levels, availability of products and assortment coverage to assist with strategic decision-making and operational efficiencies.

iWeb Scraping has developed and perfected algorithms capable of extracting dynamic website content through the use of sophisticated algorithmic methods, including a multi-layer approach to retrieving product listings and stock level data as well as assisting businesses in maintaining real-time access to critical product data from complex websites with difficult layouts, large amounts of content and frequently changing content before their competitors build up a lead.

The system allows clients to set up alerts for stockouts, restocking, new listings or changes to current assortments (i.e., additions, removals, etc.). Receiving alerts in real-time assists clients in being responsive to the availability of products and enables them to adjust their inventory levels or assortments as necessary, thus ensuring clients are always aware of significant events and developments impacting product availability and position within a particular marketplace or retailer on an ongoing basis.

Yes, web scraping is legal for tracking publicly available product listings and stock and assortment data of retailers and marketplaces. All data collected is done in accordance with legal, ethical, and retailer-specific rules, allowing businesses to use this service to track legally and in compliance with respect to privacy laws, website policies, and proprietary restrictions, thus providing businesses a legitimate means of obtaining actionable market intelligence.

The data collected is both encrypted in transit and clearly stored on secure servers. Numerous security measures are implemented when obtaining the data and limiting access, therefore ensuring that the data maintains confidentiality, integrity and availability throughout the entire process of obtaining, processing and supplying the data. As a result of this, organizations can be assured that their inventory and availability data is safeguarded from the possibility of unauthorized access and/or modification as well as from loss.

Yes, iWebScraping follows GDPR and other data protection laws and regulations. iWeb Scraping only collects publicly accessible product and inventory data and does not collect any personal identifying or sensitive information from customers. All processes involved in the handling, storage and delivery of data are conducted in compliance with legal regulations and data privacy laws, allowing all organizations to have access to information regarding their data regardless of location with little relative liability and without compromising ethical standards.

Yes. iWeb Scraping can restrict and/or anonymize filtered data based on client requirements or regulatory compliance. In this way, companies are receiving only legally permissible data. Data identified as sensitive or identifiable is not included in the data provided to clients. All data relating to tracked assortments and availability of catalogues is managed responsibly to allow clients to conduct an analysis of the presence of products, stock level data and assortment trends of products, without breaching privacy and/or ethical policies.

Yes. iWeb Scraping delivers real-time insights on fully encrypted channels using secure servers. All product listing, stock data and assortment data updates are delivered to clients securely using fully encrypted channels. In unison with the established secure access protocols, this provides businesses with the confidence that they can act upon data efficiently and effectively in real-time. This is done while also having the knowledge that their information will remain secure from interception, unauthorized access or corruption – while providing rapid, data-driven inventory and marketplace decisions.