Product Suite
Custom Categorization Engine - Discount Metrics’ categorization engine provides a rule-based web interface to facilitate quick and easy augmentation of all promotional information. Meta-data, custom categories, or other attributes can quickly and easily be added with our categorization engine.
Competitive Analysis for Brands - Discount Metrics uses a proprietary brand-based classification system to map each brand with associated products and competitors. This approach allows subscribers to easily engage in a detailed brand-by-brand comparison among a specific brand, its products, and its competitors.
Competitive Analysis for Retailers - Discount Metrics’ retail sector classification facilitates a comprehensive comparison among 142 retailers throughout the United States and Canada. We provide detailed, in-depth coverage of each retailer and it’s relative competition in the region. By analyzing retailers at the store level, Discount Metrics is able to provide unprecedented visibility into the competitive landscape and performance of more than 75,000 individual store locations.
Competitive Analysis for Products - Discount Metrics classifies more than 160,000 products on a product-by-product basis as part of the proprietary Discount Metrics Product Hierarchy. This attention to detail offers a level of breadth and depth above existing product competitive analyses.
Coupon Intelligence - Discount Metrics Coupon Tracker allows you to proactively track and monitor the issuance of print and digital coupons. Both print and digital coupons are consolidated and normalized to save time, ensure comparability across providers, and offer an unrivaled perspective into the current coupon landscape.
Economic Indexing - Pricing and promotional data offers advance insight into the economic performance of both specific companies and the broader economy. Leverage the large repository of current and historical data to monitor various economic metrics and trends in real time.
Product Forecasting - Designed to help avoid surprises, Discount Metrics’ Product Forecasting allows subscribers to remain informed of trends and changes in the retail market. Whether your focus is on the retail sector, individual retailers, or specific products, these reports are central to understanding the competitive landscape of the retail market.
Manufacturer Profiling - Discount Metrics’ Manufacturer Profiles utilize our brand and product classification systems to detail a company’s brands and products, the sectors in which it competes, and its competition. Our precise classification, and in-depth company research allows more accurate forecasts of the company’s key relationships and future growth potential.
Real-Time Promotion Feeds - Designed to facilitate immediate and reliable implementation of real-time promotional data into various business intelligence and consumer search applications. Promotional data is collected at the store level, within hours of publication, and includes all relevant item and pricing information for the products on sale each week. This data is further normalized into persistent category, retailer, and brand entities, through a proprietary system developed by Discount Metrics.
Historical Promotion Archive - Accessed via a web interface, subscribers are given access to our comprehensive archive of historical promotions and images. This interface is powered by our real-time promotional data feeds; archived promotions are normalized into persistent category, retailer, and brand entities to facilitate easy comparison and integration with external data sources.
Circular Image Search - Search and compare page and product images of both current and historical circulars. This search is especially useful for those subscribers who need to compare art assets, page layouts, or even entire circulars for a specific retailer or product.
Promotion & UPC Matching - By classifying promotions into multiple, highly-specific categories, Discount Metrics is able to map promotional data and Universal Product Codes in near real-time. Through UPC mapping, your promotional data can now be integrated with other sources of information to achieve a new level of insight and measurability.
UPC Database - Discount Metrics UPC Database gives you instant access to accurate product information on over 600,000 items via our web based API. Unlike traditional UPC databases, there are no commitments or expensive upfront costs.