Glossary
Catalog-wide price change
A catalog-wide price change is when many SKUs from the same store change price at the same time, typically 50 or more. It is almost always a sign of automation, a repricing app running a rule, or a sitewide sale going live, rather than a single human decision on one product. Spotting the pattern helps a Shopify store owner tell a targeted competitive move apart from a routine automated event.
Learn more: How to spot automated catalog-wide changes
Related terms
Price change noisePrice change noise is small, sub-1% price fluctuation caused by automated repricing tools, currency rounding, or bulk pricing rules, rather than a deliberate pricing decision.Significance scoringSignificance scoring is an AI classification, low, medium, or high, applied to each detected competitor event to separate background activity from events worth a person's attention.CSS-selector monitoringCSS-selector monitoring means tracking one specific element on a competitor's page, a price, a stock badge, a promo banner, by its CSS selector, rather than comparing the entire page as an image.
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