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Commerce intelligence for pet supplies

Pet is a replenishment category. Most volume is repeat purchase of the same few items, subscription discounts distort the headline price, and pack size varies wildly between sellers.

ReplenishmentPatternSubscribe-and-saveDistortionUnit-price parityNeed

Pet supplies

Subscription prices are a separate series

A subscribe-and-save price and a one-time price are tracked as distinct offers. Blending them makes every seller look cheaper than it is at the moment of purchase.

Pet supplies

Replenishment cadence

For repeat purchases the question is not “is this cheap today” but “is this cheap for this month”. Time-weighted context answers the second one.

Endpoints that do this

Where it lands in the API.

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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POST /v1/watches

Watches

A standing condition on a product, a seller, a brand or a whole category.

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POST /v1/compare

Compare

One product across every seller that carries it, ranked by landed cost, with the spread. Server-side work is worth more than four raw reads the caller has to join.

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Questions

Common questions.

Can I watch a basket rather than one product?

Yes — a watch can be scoped to a category, a brand or a set, and fires per matching product with the condition that triggered it.