How to Automatically Track Competitor Prices on Shopify (The 2026 Founder's Guide)
Published on January 30, 2026
Are you still manually checking your competitor's website every single day? Have you ever missed a price drop, only to see your sales plummet overnight?
In the fast-paced world of e-commerce, manually tracking prices isn't just inefficientit's a recipe for disaster. You're losing time, losing sales, and making decisions based on outdated information.
The Old Way: Manual & Unreliable Methods
For too long, founders have relied on broken workflows to gather competitive intelligence.
1. The Manual "Refresh" Method The most basic way is to create a spreadsheet and visit your top 3-5 competitors' product pages daily. It's free, but it's soul-crushingly boring, highly error-prone, and impossible to scale as you grow.
2. Using Generic Alerting Tools You might try setting up general-purpose alerting tools. While automated, they are often unreliable for simple price changes, deliver information far too late, and create more noise than signal.
The New Way: Automated Intelligence
But what if there was a better way?
After struggling with these manual methods while running our own Shopify stores, we decided to build the solution.
Introducing SpyHunt.
SpyHunt is a simple but powerful system designed to do one thing perfectly: automatically monitor your competitors and notify you instantly of any changes.
Instead of you hunting for data, SpyHunt delivers the intelligence directly to you. Heres how it works:
Step 1: Add a competitor's store with one click. There are no complex forms to fill out. You just provide the store URL.
Step 2: SpyHunt gets to work, tracking every product on the site. You can manage all your tracked competitors from a single, clean dashboard.
Step 3: Get instant alerts the moment a price changes. No more spreadsheets. You get clear, actionable intelligence delivered right to your feed.
It's time to compete smarter, not harder.
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