Every tool in this category was built for retail: product feeds, SKUs, hourly repricing. A service firm has none of those. It has a price list on its own website, a handful of local competitors with price lists of their own, and no time to compare them. That is the gap this is built for.
| Retail tools | A service firm | |
|---|---|---|
| What is compared | Identical products across sellers | The same service across local providers |
| Unit | One price per SKU | Per hour, per m², per job, per size tier — normalised |
| Source | Product feeds and marketplaces | Price list pages providers publish themselves |
| Scale | Thousands of SKUs | Five to fifteen services, a handful of local rivals |
| Cadence | Hourly or daily repricing | Weekly is already faster than the market moves |
Not a dashboard to check. One page, by email, on a schedule: every service you sell, what the local market charges for it, and where you sit.
| Provider | Rate |
|---|---|
| Provider A | 2.40 |
| Provider B | 1.94 |
| Provider C | 1.47 |
| Your firm | 1.20 |
| Provider D | 0.99 |
| Provider E | 0.79 |
Standard cleaning, €/m². Market median 1.47.
Real published prices, providers anonymised. Every row in a real report carries the source it came from and the date it was read.
None of this needs software to be true. These guides walk through the same work by hand — pricing, comparison, and how to tell where you sit.