Price monitoring for online stores: the price with delivery
The system compares your prices with the competitor listings you choose, counting delivery costs and purchase terms. The person in charge of pricing assesses the alerts.
Automation, paid once
from €3,000 net
Test on your process: €0
You pay 50% after acceptance
How much does competitor price monitoring for an online store cost, and when does it pay back?
Short answer
Competitor price monitoring for an online store costs from €3,000 net. In our scenario it pays back in 1.5 months. Today, checking 4,000 competitor prices by hand costs €2,327 a month. With the system, the same work costs €381. The project never changes your prices automatically. The person responsible for the price list decides. The test on your process is free.
Statistics
E-commerce and prices: statistics 2025
78%
According to Eurostat (2025), 78% of EU internet users bought goods or services online.
a month for checking 4,000 competitor prices by hand
Today€2,327
With the system€381
Payback: 1.5 mo.
In your company
Small shop
1,000 reads · €582 a month
6.2 mo. payback
Mid-sized shop
4,000 reads · €2,327 a month
1.5 mo. payback
Large shop
12,000 reads · €6,980 a month
0.5 mo. payback
We count the payback from the time saved. The process also brings margin from prices corrected in time: about €1,133 a month in this scenario (the assumptions are under “How we calculate it”). According to Eurostat (2025), 78% of EU internet users bought goods or services online.
4,000 × 1 min = 66.7 h × €34.90 = €2,327 a month. With the system, a person checks the output in 15% of the old time (€349) and the model costs €32. That leaves €381. The saving is €1,946 a month, so €3,000 pays back in 1.5 months. The payback counts the time saved only. On top of it comes margin from prices corrected in time: about €1,133 a month in this scenario.
Assumptions: 1 minute to check one price and checking in 15% of the old time are our assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat, for companies with 10 or more employees. Model cost: Claude Sonnet 5.5, about 3,000 + 300 tokens per listing read, at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026. The price margin is a scenario: we assume that 1 in 120 reads leads to a price change that brings €34 of margin or saves a sale. In the review we count it on your product range.
foap.com customer service: 95% of replies are sent automatically.
Users from several countries write to foap.com, in several languages. The system reads the entire conversation and the terms of that person, and then sends a response in that person's language. Questions about money and exceptions go to the team with a ready draft, so they have to check and send them.
the system sends the answers itself, without human typing
95%
the system sends the answers itself, without human typing
time from the arrival of the e-mail to the ready response (median)
30 s
time from the arrival of the e-mail to the ready response (median)
e-mails that require a response receive a ready-made draft
100%
e-mails that require a response receive a ready-made draft
less work for every 1000 answers (estimate)
47 h
less work for every 1000 answers (estimate)
Data from foap.com production, October 20-21, 2026. Estimate: 3 minutes for handwritten response.
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You choose the test cases. We anonymise them on request.
They stay in the EU and we delete them after the test.
We sign the NDA and the data processing agreement before we receive anything.
After acceptance you keep the code, the test set and the documentation. You pay for licences and model usage directly to the provider.
Questions
How much does competitor price monitoring cost?
From €3,000 net, paid once. After the 5-day test the build takes 2 to 6 weeks. You get a fixed price before the contract: 50% on signing and 50% after acceptance on your own products.
Does the system change our prices?
No. The system shows the change and its history, and the person responsible decides on the price list.
Where does the system get competitor prices?
From publicly available listings that you point to, in a way the site allows. Before we quote, we check what data can be read.
When does it not pay off?
Below 520 reads a month the payback takes more than a year. Then it is better to start with ChatGPT or Claude for the team, from €1,150 net.
What do we need to prepare?
A list of products and competitors to watch, your prices and thresholds, and the person who decides on price list changes today.
What our OpenAI and Anthropic partnerships mean for you.
OpenAI makes ChatGPT and Anthropic makes Claude. We belong to the partnership programs of both companies, so we work with their tools every day and learn from the creators themselves.
Claude Partner Network
01We will select a tool for the task
We implement both ChatGPT and Claude. We check both on your documents, and you choose the one that makes fewer corrections and saves more time.
02Knowledge straight from the creators
We learn from official OpenAI and Anthropic courses and materials. Your team learns about the features and settings that work today.
03Licenses without our margin
You buy accounts directly from OpenAI or Anthropic and receive an invoice from them. We do not add anything to the license.
04Certified engineers
On the team, we have an AWS certification in machine learning and an Anthropic certification in systems architecture on Claude.
Participation in programs does not mean that OpenAI or Anthropic endorses our services.
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