Promotion Detection
Promotion detection is the automated process of identifying when a competitor has launched a new promotional offer by scanning their website for discount banners, sale badges, coupon codes, and checkout discount applications.
Manually checking competitor websites for promotions is impractical at scale. A competitor might run dozens of promotions per year — including flash sales that last only 6 hours — and missing even one can mean losing significant market share during peak demand periods.
Automated promotion detection crawls a competitor's storefront, homepage, category pages, and product detail pages at regular intervals. It looks for: sitewide discount banners, "SALE" or "% OFF" badges on product images, promotional countdown timers, free shipping threshold changes, and coupon code visibility in marketing copy.
GetStoreIntel's promotion detection pipeline runs continuously across all tracked stores, firing real-time Slack and email alerts the moment a new promotion is detected.