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Commerce intelligence for digital goods, ebooks and software

Digital goods price differently from physical ones: no shipping, no stock, but aggressive regional variation, frequent promotional windows, and the same title sold under several editions and formats.

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Digital goods & ebooks

Editions and formats are variants

Hardcover, paperback, ebook and audiobook of one title are variants of one work, each with its own price. Comparing across formats without saying so produces a meaningless spread.

Digital goods & ebooks

Promotional windows

Digital pricing runs on short, deep promotions rather than gradual markdown. History with time weighting is what separates a genuine two-day drop from a permanent repricing.

Digital goods & ebooks

Subscriptions are not purchases

A subscription price and a one-time price are not comparable. Offer type carries the distinction so recurring and outright cost are never averaged together.

Endpoints that do this

Where it lands in the API.

GET /v1/search

Search commerce

Keyword and structured search across every connected seller. Returns canonical products with live offers, spread and a verdict — not raw listings you have to deduplicate yourself.

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GET /v1/products/{id}/history

History

The observation series. Append-only — nothing is ever updated, so a replay reconstructs exactly what you were told and when.

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GET /v1/products/{id}/context

Price context

Is this actually a good price? Percentile against the product's own history at that seller, time-weighted, with low, median and high.

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Questions

Common questions.

Are ebooks matched by ISBN?

Where an ISBN is published, yes, with the check digit verified. Where it is not, matching falls back to title, author and edition with the resulting confidence published on the match.