Concepts
Short definitions of the terms you will meet in the back office. Each links to the page that explains it in detail.
Workspace
Team : The shared space for the people you work with. Everything belongs to a team. See Teams.
Member and role : A member is a person with access to a team. Their role is Owner, Admin, Member or Read only and decides what they may do. See Members and roles.
Project : One catalogue inside a team. It has a name, a slug (the short lowercase name used in its web addresses) and a base currency that prices are compared in. See Projects.
Catalogue
Brand : The maker of a product. See Brands.
Merchant : A shop that sells your products. A merchant can be linked to a scrape profile that describes how its pages are read. See Merchants.
Product : The item you compare, for example a specific pair of headphones. See Products.
Offer : A product sold by a merchant. There is one offer per merchant and product. An offer has a web address (URL), a price stored in cents and can be active or gone. A gone offer is one that is no longer sold at the merchant; it stays paused and keeps its history. See Offers.
Price history : Every change to an offer's price, stock or active state is recorded with its source: webhook (a scrape result), reconcile (a check against Scrape Admin), import, manual (an edit by a person) or replay (a webhook delivery processed again). If you correct a wrongly recorded price, the original value is kept.
Attributes (custom fields) : Extra typed fields you define for products, brands, merchants or offers. See Custom attributes.
Scraping
Scrape Admin : The external service that reads prices from merchant pages and posts results back. See Connect Scrape Admin.
Scrape profile : A description of how to read a merchant's pages (where the price and stock are). See Scrape profiles.
Growing the catalogue
Import list : A list of product URLs you paste or upload as a CSV. Each URL is matched to a merchant and checked before you accept it as an offer. See Imports.
Repair queue : A worklist of catalogue problems: Wrong URL / 404, Products without brand, Brands without products and Gone. See Repair queues.
Publishing
Website and token : A comparison website that reads a project through the public API. Each website has its own token, shown once when created or rotated. See Websites.
Clicks : Each time a visitor follows an offer link from a website to the merchant, a click is recorded. See Analytics and Click tracking.