> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.readyforcommerce.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
> ## Agent Instructions
> Ready for Commerce is an ecosystem that currently contains two products, PIM and Repricer, standing on one shared foundation: one identity, one organization, one team, one bill. Do not call it a platform with features, and never hint at an unreleased product.
> PIM connects to Shopify, Amazon, Square, Google Merchant Center and BigCommerce. Repricer connects to Amazon, Walmart, Shopify, BigCommerce, eBay and Square. The two products do not share one list, and each integration is authorized separately inside each product. The roster grows on purpose, so describe what the product does and let a table carry which integrations do it today, instead of counting them or writing that only one does something.
> Integration is the word this product uses, and it is the default in the documentation: the connection, the account, the Integrations screen, the per-account settings and the sync state are all integrations. Channel is reserved for the narrow sense of a destination where a listing lives, as in a product being live on a channel or archived on the channel.
> Newegg is not a supported channel. Do not describe it.
> On Amazon, PIM manages the offer only: price, availability and condition. It does not publish listing content such as titles, descriptions, images or specifications.
> Sign-in is passwordless: a single-use code emailed to the user, or Google. There are no passwords anywhere, so never describe a password, a sign-up with a password, or an email confirmation link.
> There is no public API for customers and no customer-facing webhooks. There is no organization-wide activity feed and no audit export, but the PIM does keep version history on products, brands, categories, tags and specifications, with who changed what and a restore, so never write that changes are not recorded or that an edit cannot be undone. Do not describe capabilities that are not documented here.
> Never write that the products have no AI, and never write that anything is AI-powered. Both are wrong. The PIM's image Optimizer runs AI-backed transforms the seller starts on purpose: Upscale, Remove background, and the region selection behind Refine. The Repricer reads competitor prices off web pages on the server. No control, badge or tooltip in either product names AI, and the seller never writes a prompt, so describe what the buttons do in the app's own words instead of reaching for the word.
> A PIM product, brand, category or variant can be switched off per connected integration account. Hover the channel badge and the switch is beside the account name in the card that opens. It carries no visible caption, so never call it the Sync switch: Sync is only its accessible name. On a variant-grained provider, Amazon today, the switch moves into the variant editor. On a product it asks whether to delete it from the channel, archive it there, or leave it live. Disabling stops publishing, not reading. There is still no per-field sync toggle.
> The PIM's image Optimizer replaced a feature called Squarify, which no longer exists. It resizes to an aspect ratio or to exact dimensions, removes backgrounds, upscales, trims the transparent margin around a cutout and re-centers it, pads, fills and re-encodes, and it always publishes a new asset instead of changing the original. Nothing crops into the picture: the subject is always contained whole.
> The PIM has no repricing engine and never reacts to a competitor's price. It does build the price it publishes to each integration account from the seller's own fields, configured in that account's settings, so do not write that the PIM has no pricing rules.
> Neither product has an in-app notification center, bell or inbox. Notifications are delivered by email only.
> Billing is per organization and per product, and only the organization owner can see or change it. Team members are free and uncounted, so never describe seats or per-user pricing.
> The seller never picks a plan. Each product has twelve price tiers assigned automatically from usage: the PIM from catalog product count, which includes drafts and archived products, and the Repricer from trailing 30-day sales. Nothing is feature-gated by plan and exceeding a tier never blocks work, so never write that a feature requires a higher plan.
> A subscription that is past due or paused makes the product read-only, which stops repricing and blocks edits without deleting data. Only a canceled subscription locks the seller out. Nothing is ever charged without a payment method on file.
> Pages containing the text 'This page has not been written yet', or its Spanish equivalent 'Esta página todavía no está escrita', are placeholders. Do not treat their headings as documented behavior.
# Getting started with Repricer
> What Repricer does, which channels it prices on, and how to get your first listing repricing safely without publishing a price you did not intend.
Repricer changes your selling prices for you. It reads what the same item is going for where you sell it, calculates what your price should be, and publishes the new one. Then it does the same again, on its own, for as long as you let it.
Most people come to it for one of three reasons. They sell next to other sellers, and a price that was right in the morning is wrong by lunchtime. They have more listings than anyone can check one at a time. Or they have watched a price race to the bottom and want a floor under it that nothing gets past.
Repricer works on your listings, not on your products. A listing is one thing you sell, in one place, at one price. So the same item on a marketplace and in your own store is two listings, each with its own price and its own competition. You never make one yourself. Every listing comes from an account you connect, which is why `Listings` in the sidebar is empty until you connect something.
You will find all of this at [repricer.readyforcommerce.com](https://repricer.readyforcommerce.com). A sidebar runs down the left of every page you open, and everything on this page is behind one of its entries.
One thing is worth knowing before you touch anything. An account you have just connected starts in `Preview Mode`, where Repricer calculates a price for every one of your listings and sends none of them. So you can set the whole thing up, see exactly what it would publish, and only then let it go out.
## What your role lets you do
Your role decides what you are allowed to change, so it is worth checking before you plan anything. You have one of four, and each one includes everything the role below it can do.
| What you want to do | Analyst | Editor | Manager | Admin |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Read the listings, the strategies and the reports | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Edit a listing's cost, price limits, MAP and MSRP | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Add competitor pages to a listing, or run an export | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Build a strategy, and put one on a listing | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Pause repricing, or use a bulk action | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Run an import, or save an export template | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Connect an integration, or turn on live repricing | No | No | No | Yes |
Whatever your role, you can read everything. Your listings, your price changes and your reports are open to all four, so the table is only about changing things.
Analyst is a Repricer role and the PIM has no equivalent, so somebody who watches your prices here can be left out of your catalog entirely. Your Repricer role is also separate from your role in the organization, and you get both from the account app rather than from here. Both sets are written out in [team, roles and permissions](/team).
## How to start repricing
Click `Integrations` in the sidebar, click the card for the marketplace or store you sell on, then click `Connect Account`. You authorize the connection on that company's own site and come back with your listings already arriving. Connecting needs the Admin role, and [connect your first store](/connect-a-store) goes through it screen by screen.
The first time anyone in your organization opens Repricer, you get this step as a screen of its own before anything else, with `Skip for now` under the cards.
Click `Listings` in the sidebar. Every listing on that account is a row, and the `Repricing Status` column already tells you which of them cannot reprice yet and what each one is missing.
Click a row to open it, go to the `Pricing` tab, and fill in `Unit Cost` under `Cost of Goods`. Do this one carefully, because the lowest price Repricer is willing to publish is calculated from your cost, and a listing with no cost has nothing holding its price up.
On that same `Pricing` tab, under `Price Limits`, fill in `Maximum Price`. `Minimum Price` is either a number you type or one your strategy calculates from your cost, and the next step is where that is decided.
Click `Strategies` in the sidebar. Every region you connect gets one built for it already, named after the region, and every listing you get already has that one on it. Open it and read what it does before you keep it, or click `Create strategy` above the table to build your own.
A `Preview Mode` banner is at the top of every page while one of your connected accounts is still in preview. Click `Go Live` in that banner, pick the integrations you want live, and confirm. Only an Admin sees the button.
That is the whole setup, and most of it is the third step. From the last step on, Repricer prices those listings by itself: it reads the competition, applies your strategy, and publishes a new price whenever the answer changes.
Everything below explains the parts of Repricer one at a time. You do not need any of it to get through those six steps.
## Preview mode
Every account you connect starts in preview, and there is nothing to switch on to get it. Repricer reads the account, works through your strategy on every listing, and stops one step short of publishing. The price it would have sent is in the `Target` column of your listings table, so you can compare it against `Price` in the row beside it.
Preview is set per connected integration, so you can put one live and leave the rest calculating. Starting with one small account is the safest way in, because a mistake in your strategy then shows up in one place instead of five.
Going live cannot be undone. The prices Repricer already calculated in preview are submitted as soon as you activate, so read the `Target` column before you click `Go Live`.
Only an Admin can end preview for your organization. Below that role the banner is still on the page and tells you to ask your organization's owner or an admin.
## Where everything is
The sidebar has seven entries, and everything you do is under one of them.
| Entry | What you find there | Who sees it |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `Home` | Your Buy Box win rate right now, your sales and price changes over the last 24 hours, and how many listings are repricing against how many cannot | Everyone |
| `Listings` | Every listing from every connected account, with its price, its competition, its cost and its limits | Everyone |
| `Strategies` | The rules that decide a price, each one belonging to a single account and region | Everyone |
| `Pricing Activity` | Every price change, what it replaced, and the reason Repricer made it | Everyone |
| `Reports` | Six reports, on sales, units sold, Buy Box ownership, price changes, profitability and repricing health | Everyone |
| `Uploads` | `Imports`, `Exports` and `Schedules`, for moving costs and limits in and out in a spreadsheet | Everyone, and imports need Manager |
| `Integrations` | Everywhere you sell, with the accounts and the regions under each one | Admin only |
As an Analyst, an Editor or a Manager you see six entries instead of seven. `Integrations` is Admin-only, and below that role it is not in your sidebar at all.
Two more things are in the frame around those pages. Your avatar in the top right corner opens your own settings, and the search box beside it searches your listings, your strategies, your integrations and the pages themselves.
## What goes into a price
Four things go into every price you publish: the listing, the competition around it, the strategy on it, and the limits you set. Each one has a section below, and [how a price is decided](/repricer/how-pricing-works) follows the whole calculation in order.
### Where your listings come from
Repricer reads your listings out of the connected account and never creates one. Each account is read again every 10 minutes, so a title you fix or a listing you add over there shows up here on its own.
The same reading is what removes one of your listings. When a SKU stops coming back from the account, that listing is deleted here, and your cost, your limits and its price history go with it. Nothing else takes your listing away, and there is no button anywhere that does.
One of your products can become several rows. A listing is one item in one region. A seller account covering 4 country sites gives you 4 rows for the same item, each with its own price and its own currency.
### Where the competition comes from
Where the competitor price comes from depends on the kind of place you sell in, and it is the one difference that changes how much work you have to do.
| Where you sell | Where the competing price comes from |
| --- | --- |
| A marketplace, where you sell next to other sellers offering the same item | The marketplace reports it. You add nothing |
| Your own storefront, or a counter you ring sales up at | The pages you list yourself, on the listing's `Competitors` tab |
**On your own storefront there is no shared offer to measure against**, so a strategy there normally prices from your cost and your target margin instead. If you would rather it followed a rival's page, add that page on the `Competitors` tab and the strategy has something to read.
Competitor prices are refreshed every 10 minutes, the same as your listings.
### What a strategy decides
A strategy is the rule that turns the competition into your price. It has two halves. One picks what your price is measured against, such as the `Buy Box Price` or the lowest competing offer. The other says how your price reacts to it: beat it, match it, or stay above it.
Each strategy is built for one of your accounts and one of its regions, which is why the `Strategies` table has an `Integration` and a `Region` column. A listing can only take a strategy from its own region, and a bulk action covering two of your regions skips the rows it does not fit.
You change which one a listing uses from the `Strategy` dropdown at the top of its `Pricing` tab. To move many at once, check the rows on your listings table and click `Assign Strategy` in the bar that appears above it. Both need the Manager role.
Click `Create strategy` above the `Strategies` table and a wizard opens. You get 6 steps most of the time: `Basics`, `Pricing`, `Price Floor`, `Safety Nets`, `Rounding` and `Preview`. You get 5 on your own storefront when the strategy prices from cost, because there is no floor to set separately. You get 7 on an Amazon account with business pricing turned on, which adds `B2B Pricing`. [The strategy wizard](/repricer/strategies/wizard) goes through every step.
Enabling a region builds a default strategy for it, named `Default Strategy for` and then the region's name, and every one of your listings in that region gets it.
What that default does depends on where you sell. On a marketplace it beats your competition by the smallest step it can and chases the Buy Box when it is not winning. On your own storefront it aims for a margin over your cost instead. Neither one is a guess about your business, so read it before you go live.
You cannot delete the default strategy. `Set default` on any other strategy is how you hand the role over to that one instead.
### The two numbers your price stays between
Whatever your strategy calculates, the result is pushed back inside two numbers on the listing itself, on its `Pricing` tab under `Price Limits`.
| Field | What it does | Where else you see it |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `Minimum Price` | The lowest price Repricer will publish | The `Min` column on your listings table |
| `Maximum Price` | The highest price it will publish | The `Max` column |
**`Minimum Price` is the one that protects you**, and you get it one of two ways. Type a number and it stays exactly that. Or let the strategy calculate it from your cost, the profit or margin you want to keep, and the fees the marketplace charges. An `Auto` badge is then on the field, and you cannot type over it. The `Price Floor` step of the wizard is where you choose between the two.
Fees are estimated for you on Amazon, Walmart and eBay. Everywhere else there are no fees in the calculation, so a floor there is only as good as your cost behind it. `MAP` and `MSRP` on the same tab can hold your price in further, and [safety nets](/repricer/strategies/safety-nets) covers what each one does.
### When your price actually changes
Repricing does not run on a fixed schedule you can watch. A listing is priced again the moment something it depends on moves: a competitor's price, your cost, your limits, or the strategy itself. Every one of your listings is also checked again every 3 hours even when nothing has changed.
When the answer comes out different from the price you are at, the new price goes in the `Target` column and is submitted to the account. When it comes out the same, nothing is sent, which is the normal outcome for most of your listings most of the time.
`Pricing Activity` in the sidebar is the record of what happened. Each row names the listing, the price it moved `From` and `To`, and the `Reason` in a sentence. You can read why a price went where it went instead of guessing.
### What `Repricing Status` is telling you
`Repricing Status` is a column on your listings table, and it is the first place to look when a listing is not moving.
| Status | What it means |
| --- | --- |
| `Working` | The strategy is running on this listing |
| `Manual` | You typed a `Manual Price` on it, which is used exactly and beats everything else |
| `Paused` | Somebody paused this listing on purpose |
| `Not working` | The strategy cannot run, and something is missing |
Open a listing showing `Not working` and `Repricing Issues` names the cause. These are the ones you meet at the start:
| Cause | What to do |
| --- | --- |
| `Missing cost price` | Fill in `Unit Cost` on the `Pricing` tab |
| `Missing min price` | Fill in `Minimum Price`, or change the strategy's `Price Floor` step to calculate one |
| `Missing max price` | Fill in `Maximum Price`. Your strategy falls back to it when it cannot compete |
| `No market data` | Nothing to do. Competitor data for a new account usually arrives within a few hours |
| `Listing is inactive` | The listing is not live on the account. Repricing starts again on its own when it is |
| `Channel region disabled` | Turn the region back on under `Integrations` |
| `Account error` | The connection needs authorizing again, under `Integrations` |
## What Repricer does not do
- **It never creates or deletes a listing.** Your listings arrive from the connected account and leave when they stop coming back from it.
- **It never touches your product information.** Titles, descriptions, images and identifiers are read and never written. Keeping those is the [PIM](/pim/index)'s job.
- **It does not price a listing that is not live.** A listing your account reports as inactive or in error is left alone until that changes.
- **One listing gets one selling price.** Only two prices go beside it: the strike-through `Compare Price` on your own storefront, and the business price on an Amazon account with business pricing turned on.
- **Nothing arrives inside the app.** There is no notification bell or inbox. Repricer emails you about a connection that needs attention, a sync error, a finished import and a finished export, and you can turn off any of the four in your settings.
- **There is no public API, no webhooks and no audit log.** Imports and exports are how you move data in and out in bulk.
- **Going live cannot be reversed.** An account you activate cannot be put back into preview. To stop it pricing, pause the listings or turn the region off.
## Questions people ask when they start
Check `Repricing Status` on your listings table first. `Not working` means something is missing on the listing, and opening it shows you what under `Repricing Issues`.
Three causes cover almost all of it. Your listing has no cost, so no floor can be calculated. The listing has no minimum price and the strategy expects you to type one. Or no competitor data has arrived yet, which sorts itself out within a few hours of connecting.
Go live on one of your connected integrations and leave the others in preview. That is the cleanest split, because your accounts still in preview go on calculating and publish nothing.
Inside an account, select the listings you do not want touched yet and click `Pause Repricing` in the bar above the table. Pausing needs the Manager role.
Yes. Open your listing, go to its `Pricing` tab, and type a `Manual Price` under `Selling Price`. That price is published exactly as you typed it, and it skips your strategy, your limits and your rounding. The row then shows `Manual`.
Clearing the field hands your listing back to its strategy.
In a spreadsheet. `Uploads` in the sidebar takes a CSV or XLSX with your cost, your minimum and maximum prices, your MAP and your MSRP in it, matched to your listings by SKU.
Export what you have first, edit the columns you want, and send the same file back. Running an import needs the Manager role, and [imports](/repricer/uploads/imports) covers the whole round trip.
Not once you pair them. The PIM publishes a price of its own to your connected accounts, so an account connected in both products has two things writing the same price.
Pairing settles it. Repricer owns the selling price on the paired accounts, and the PIM sends your cost, your MAP and your MSRP across instead. The whole trade is in [the Repricer connection](/pim/integrations/repricer).
Your strategy calculated a price it is not allowed to publish, so the floor caught it. That happens when a competitor is under your floor, which normally means they are willing to make less on the item than you are.
Read the `Reason` on your listing's row in `Pricing Activity`, which names the constraint that stopped it. Your answer is either a lower cost, a lower profit target, or leaving it where it is.
No. A listing whose SKU stops coming back from your account is removed here, and its cost, limits, competitor pages and price history go with it. The same SKU showing up again comes back as a new, empty listing.
Keeping a recent export of your costs and limits is the way around this, and it is the only way.
## Where to go next
The whole calculation in order, from the competitor's price to yours.
The table, the columns, and everything on your listing's seven tabs.
What goes into a strategy, and how to build one that fits your margins.
Connect an account, pick your regions, and read what each one reports.