The Paravey blog
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- UndercutPricing
What's a reasonable scan cadence for competitor price monitoring?
Why Paravey Undercut scans 2 or 3 times a day — not hourly — and what cadences actually catch (vs. generate noise). Trade-offs, duplicate filtering, and the three questions to ask a vendor.
Oct 23, 20267 min readRead - UndercutMigration
The Prisync escape hatch: how to migrate your competitor list in 10 minutes
Export, map 1–5 competitor stores, run both in parallel for a week, cancel. The hands-on migration path from Prisync to Paravey Undercut.
Oct 22, 20266 min readRead - UndercutArchitecture
Why price-monitoring tools break when a competitor redesigns (and what to do instead)
The quiet failure mode of every CSS-selector-based scraper: a competitor changes their theme, the selectors stop matching, no alert fires. Here's the architectural fix.
Oct 22, 20267 min readRead - UndercutHow-to
How to monitor Shopify competitor prices (without installing a thing on their store)
Every Shopify storefront exposes a public /products.json. Here's how to read it, how to handle variants + geo-currency, and what breaks when a competitor turns it off.
Oct 22, 20266 min readRead