How It Works

Before You Track — Things To Know

• Your free 30-day trial:
  Every new account gets 30 days free with 1 tracked link, checked once a day. When the trial ends your link pauses — nothing is deleted — and picking any plan starts checking again straight away. You'll see a countdown and an upgrade button in your account, and we'll email you before the trial ends.
• Every plan adds 1 link free:
  Paid plans include one extra link at no cost: 5 links = 6 tracked, 10 = 11, 15 = 16, 20 = 21, 25 = 26. You pay once for a full year and it never auto-renews — we'll email you reminders before it ends. Your links stay in your account if the plan expires, but checking pauses until you buy a new plan.
• When we check your links:
  Paid plans are scanned twice a day — around 6am and 6pm UK time, which is roughly midnight and midday US Central time. Trial accounts get the morning check only.
• Quiet links are checked less often:
  To keep the service fast and fair, a link whose price hasn't changed for 90 days steps down to one check a day (the morning cycle), and after 180 days with no change it moves to a check every other day. Either way it jumps straight back to your plan's normal frequency as soon as its price changes again — quiet links keep being tracked.
• How accurate are our scans?
  On standard, well-built retailer pages we typically capture an accurate price 90%+ of the time. On trickier sites (heavy bot protection, unusual layouts, multiple prices on one page etc.) accuracy can be lower. If a price ever looks wrong, open the link to double-check — and remove and re-add the product to reset the baseline.
• Volatile items trigger lots of emails:
  Things like bars of silver, gold, crypto-linked products or stocks-style listings change price many times a day. Tracking them will fill your inbox with alerts — they're usually not great candidates for price tracking.
• Some sites block our scanner:
  A few retailers use bot protection (Cloudflare, captchas, etc.) that stop us reading the page. If a link keeps failing, that's often why — try a different retailer for the same product.
• Login or region-locked pages won't work:
  If the price is only visible after you sign in, accept cookies, or choose a country, we can't read it. Use a public product URL that shows the price without logging in.
• Wrong currency? Check the link:
  Some sites silently redirect to a US ($) or EU (€) version of the page. When possible, copy the link from your own country's store (for example, a .co.uk shop for UK prices) so the price stays in the relevant local currency.
• Out of stock = no price:
  When an item is unavailable the price disappears from the page. We'll mark the scan as failed until stock returns.
• Variants and sizes matter:
  Pick the exact size, colour or pack you want before copying the link. Tracking a generic page may pick up a 'from' price or the wrong variant.
• Sale price vs RRP:
  Pages often show both the old (was) price and the current price. We do our best to grab the live price, but on unusual layouts we might read the wrong one.
• Marketplace sellers can change:
  On Amazon and eBay the seller in the buy box can swap, which changes the price even though the link is the same product.
• Auctions aren't a fixed price:
  eBay auction listings show the current bid, not a set price — they don't track well. Stick to 'Buy It Now' listings.
• Retailers redesign their pages:
  If a shop changes its layout, links that used to work can suddenly start failing. Removing and re-adding the link usually fixes it.
• We don't include shipping or VAT toggles:
  Some sites flip between with/without VAT or add fees at checkout. The price we show is the headline price on the page only.