THE TWO EASIEST AND MOST REALISTIC WAYS TO PROGRAM A PRICE COMPARISON TOOL

After developing several price comparators , at Rana Negra we are very clear about how to develop a price comparator in an easy, realistic and profitable way.

There are two options, if you are thinking of developing a business model based on comparing prices or developing a search engine for products or services , the first thing you should know are the questions that we raise in the article What you should know before considering a business based on a price comparator .

With these basic premises, we have two ways of carrying out the programming of a price comparator or a search engine for services or products:

• • – If you are going to have few products / services to compare or search for, the simplest and cheapest way is to insert these products or services manually from the control panel . This means manually entering the prices, names, descriptions, etc., of each product to be compared, and being aware of when the prices change. It is the most slave way for the web administrator, it is only efficient if, as we say, there are few products to compare.Another variant is that the web administrators of the pages to search for prices are the ones who insert these prices, names and characteristics, either from their private area or by importing csv files.
  • In brief we will be able to show you a business model based on this option for a price comparator.
  • – Import products / services through an affiliate network , such as Awin , Tradetracker or Webgains .This way is relatively simple, and automated, based on affiliate marketing , through which brands make the products or services of their web pages available so that others can implement them on their webs. The commissions for browsing their web pages are normally stipulated by the brands themselves, and it is something that we should not worry about when developing a price comparison website , since it is automated in the affiliate network itself, it is not a function that has to be programmed on our part. 
    

• We have an example of this type of website with a price comparison function at ClotClic .  THE TWO EASIEST AND MOST REALISTIC WAYS TO PROGRAM A PRICE COMPARISON TOOL