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Price intelligence from real shopping data
Costless Insights turns shopper receipts, retailer catalogs, direct site coverage and in-store price-tag photos into one barcode-level dashboard — side-by-side price comparison across retailers and per-product price trends over time, with CSV and API export. Available as a SaaS subscription.
Price comparison
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EANParent → Child15.08.2026
Pick the path that matches your role
Same dashboard, three different lenses. Each role gets the views, exports and alerts that matter for the decisions they own.
For Retailers
Know what your shoppers paid — at your stores and at the competition — without a mystery-shopping team. Live competitive grid, receipt-verified prices, and alerts the moment a competitor changes a price in your category.
For Brands and Manufacturers
See your products on every shelf, in every receipt, in every catalog — at the barcode level. Cross-retailer promo timelines, distribution coverage and loyalty-discount realised prices.
For Distributors and Category Managers
Plan next quarter pricing on data your reps cannot gather alone. Regional price spread, promo timelines with validity windows, and new-entrant visibility across every chain we cover.
Two purpose-built views. One export pipeline.
Both tools draw from the same receipt-and-flyer feed, so numbers in comparison match numbers in trends.
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Price comparison
Your price, cost and margin side by side with competitor prices — regular and promo, with stock status, update date and deviation from the market minimum. Category, store and margin filters, summary KPIs, and XLSX/CSV/PDF export.
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Price trends
A price-movement chart for a single SKU over 30 days to 2 years: your price per store, competitor lines and promo windows. Spot promotions, margin shifts and stock-outs.
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Alerts & exports
Download CSVs or set alerts when a competitor undercuts you by a threshold you choose.
Four data sources. One product graph.
We do not only crawl websites. We see what shoppers actually paid, what promo catalogs actually promised, what every retailer displays online, and what the shelf says in-store — then reconcile every signal to a single barcode.
Real shopping data
240,000+ shopper receipts processed — most from Ukraine, plus Poland, the UK and Lithuania. A receipt captures the price actually paid, including loyalty-card discounts and basket-level promos that crawlers never see.
Flyer and promo OCR
Weekly OCR of PDF catalogs and promo banners — including chains that publish offers only in print. Captures the promo window, the exact discount mechanic and the combined conditions behind every offer.
Direct site coverage
Custom parsers for 100+ retail chains in 30+ countries, with daily-to-weekly refresh. Captures shelf prices across web and mobile catalogs.
In-store price-tag photos
Our Costless Price Tags app photographs price tags right on the shop floor — uploading instantly or in a batch after the visit. Your own field agents can use it too: photos land in a dedicated collection campaign, the system recognises the price, promo and barcode and maps the products — results show up in Price Insights right away.
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One barcode (EAN/UPC). Four signals reconciled.
Matching the same product across chains is the hardest problem in price monitoring — most vendors still do it manually, with teams of operators. Costless matches automatically: barcodes, GPC bricks, multilingual semantic vectors and a three-tier verification pass, at 99% accuracy. Your category manager opens one product and sees the truth from every source.
From receipt to dashboard
A reproducible pipeline. Every number on the dashboard is traceable back to a receipt line, a catalog page, a parser run, or a price-tag photo.
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Collect
Shopper receipts, retailer catalogs, parser feeds and in-store price-tag photos stream into a single normalised product graph.
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Match
Products are aligned across retailers using barcodes, GPC bricks and semantic vectors.
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Compare
Your team gets a live dashboard: pick a product, pick retailers, pick a date range.
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Deliver
Browser dashboard, CSV export, JSON/XML API, or scheduled email digest — whichever fits how your team already works.
Common questions about Costless Insights
What is Costless Insights?
Costless Insights is a price-intelligence platform for retailers, brands and distributors. It combines shopper receipts, retailer catalogs, direct site coverage and in-store price-tag photos into one barcode-level dashboard with live comparison, historical trends and CSV/API export. You can subscribe to it as SaaS.
How is Costless different from a price-scraping tool?
Crawlers only see the shelf tag a website displays. Costless adds what shoppers actually paid (240,000+ receipts processed) and what promo catalogs actually promised (weekly OCR), so loyalty discounts and basket promos that crawlers miss are visible.
Which countries and retailers are covered?
Live analytics across 30+ countries in Europe, Asia and North America. Shopper receipts are recognised via OCR. New chains are added every month.
What data export formats are supported?
Costless delivers data via browser dashboard, CSV download, JSON/XML API and scheduled email digest. The API supports per-barcode price history, retailer-by-retailer comparison, and flyer-promo metadata with validity windows.
How accurate is the product matching?
Costless reconciles signals at the EAN/UPC barcode level using GPC bricks (GS1 standard), multilingual semantic vectors and a three-tier verification pass. Match accuracy is 99% on packaged FMCG and 95%+ on private-label SKUs.
Can Costless feed our pricing engine or BI stack?
Yes. Costless is designed as a data source, not a replacement for dynamic-repricing engines or BI platforms. Ask for our integration patterns with Snowflake, BigQuery, common ERPs, and major repricing engines.
What do I need to get started?
Three files from Excel: a category tree (xls/xlsx), a product catalog (name and category required; SKU, brand and barcodes when available) and a price file. Column mapping is suggested automatically, products match themselves to Costless normalized products — and the comparison dashboard works the same day.
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Ready to see your products?
Tell us which products or product lists you want to track and we will set up a demo dashboard with live data — typically within 48 hours.