MAP Monitoring Software for Brands and Manufacturers
Track every reseller, marketplace listing, and third-party seller for minimum advertised price violations — with timestamped evidence your enforcement team can act on.
- Catch below-MAP listings the moment they appear
- Timestamped screenshot evidence for every violation
- Identify unauthorized and grey-market sellers
- Track repeat offenders across your reseller network
- seller
- TechDeals Outlet
- advertised
- 208.00 USD
- map_price
- 249.00 USD
- captured_at
- 2026-07-22 09:14Z
Capture every violation
Detection is the easy half. Enforcement depends on a record that holds up in a conversation with a distributor or a marketplace.
Advertised Price
The price shown on the listing page, per seller, marketplace, and country.
Seller Identity
Which reseller or third-party seller published the offer, resolved across storefronts.
Screenshot Evidence
A capture of the page exactly as it appeared when the violation was recorded.
Violation Duration
How long a listing stayed below MAP, so brief glitches are told apart from policy breaches.
Repeat Offenders
Violation history grouped by seller to expose systematic discounters.
Unauthorized Sellers
Offers from sellers who are not on your authorized reseller list.
Built for brand and channel teams
Stop price erosion before it spreads across the reseller network.
Channel Enforcement
Give channel managers an evidence pack instead of a spreadsheet of screenshots gathered by hand.
- Exportable violation reports
- Repeat-offender history per seller
Marketplace Takedowns
Escalate unauthorized sellers with the listing URL, price, and timestamp a marketplace will accept.
- Seller identity resolution
- Archived listing pages
Distributor Reviews
Walk into quarterly reviews with a defensible record of who held the line on price and who did not.
- Compliance rate by distributor
- Trend over time by brand
No enforcement without evidence
A violation report is only useful if the distributor on the other side of the call cannot dispute it. Every record carries the seller, the listing URL, the advertised price, the timestamp, and the page as it appeared.
See a sample report- Seller
- TechDeals Outlet
- Listing
- amazon.com/dp/B0C4R…
- Advertised price
- $208.00
- MAP threshold
- $249.00
- First seen
- 22 Jul 2026, 09:14 UTC
- Duration below MAP
- 4h 12m
- Prior violations
- 7 in 90 days
- Screenshot
- Archived
Monitoring built for policy enforcement
Everything a MAP programme needs, from detection through to the distributor conversation.
Continuous Crawling
Authorized resellers, marketplaces, and third-party sellers on your chosen cadence.
Barcode-Free Matching
AI product matching finds your SKUs even when resellers rewrite titles or omit EANs.
Tiered MAP Thresholds
Set thresholds per SKU, region, currency, and promotional window.
Archived Evidence
Timestamped screenshots stored for every recorded violation.
Real-Time Alerts
Email, Slack, or webhook the moment a listing crosses your threshold.
Violation Dashboards
Break violations down by seller, brand, category, and marketplace.
What Is Minimum Advertised Price (MAP)?
Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) is the lowest price a manufacturer permits its authorized retailers to advertise a product for publicly. It governs the advertised price — what appears on a product page, in search results, or in an ad — not necessarily the final price a customer pays at checkout.
A MAP policy protects brand positioning and margin across the reseller network. When one retailer advertises below MAP, competing resellers are pressured to match, margins compress across the channel, and the product's perceived value erodes. Enforcement depends on catching violations quickly and documenting them credibly.
What Is MAP Monitoring?
MAP monitoring is the automated, continuous tracking of advertised prices across every retailer, marketplace, and third-party seller carrying your products, in order to detect listings priced below your minimum advertised price.
Manual checks do not scale. A brand with 500 SKUs across 40 resellers and three marketplaces has 60,000 price points to verify — and marketplace sellers change prices several times a day. Automated MAP monitoring closes that gap by crawling listings on a fixed cadence and flagging violations the moment they appear.
- Advertised price captured per listing, seller, marketplace, and country
- Violation detection against your thresholds, including tiered and time-boxed MAP policies
- Timestamped screenshots and archived listing pages as enforcement evidence
- Repeat-offender tracking, so you can tell a pricing error from a systematic discounter
Detecting and Enforcing MAP Violations
A MAP violation is any advertised price below your published minimum. Detection is the easy half — enforcement depends on evidence that holds up in a conversation with a distributor or in a marketplace takedown request.
Every violation is stored with the seller identity, listing URL, advertised price, timestamp, and a screenshot of the page as it appeared. Violations are grouped by seller so your channel team can see the pattern rather than a stream of isolated alerts.
- Configurable grace periods so short-lived pricing glitches do not trigger enforcement
- Automatic detection of unauthorized and grey-market sellers
- Exportable violation reports for distributor conversations and marketplace escalation
MAP Monitoring on Amazon and Marketplaces
Marketplaces are where MAP erodes fastest. On Amazon a single ASIN can carry dozens of third-party offers, the Buy Box rotates between them, and unauthorized sellers appear and disappear within days.
E-commerce MAP monitoring tracks every offer on a listing, not just the Buy Box winner, and links each offer back to a seller identity you can act on. The same coverage extends to Walmart, eBay, and regional marketplaces.
- All offers per listing, not only the Buy Box price
- Seller identity resolution across marketplaces and storefronts
- Buy Box ownership history alongside violation records