--- title: "How to Track Price Changes on a Website | Price Drop Alerts" description: "Three ways to get a price drop alert: the store's own alert, Google price tracking, or a page watcher on the product page. How a Peekivo price watch works." canonical_url: https://peekivo.com/en/use-cases/price-drop-alerts language: en last_updated: 2026-10-01 --- # Track price changes on a public web page There are three common ways to be told when a price drops: the store's own price alert, if it offers one; Google's price tracking, for products Google lists; or a page watcher that reads the product page itself on a schedule. A page watcher can be pointed at a public page the other two do not cover, and it shows the old and new price as evidence. ## Three ways to get a price drop alert - The store's own alert. Some shops offer a price or wish-list alert on the product page. When it exists, it is the simplest option. - Google price tracking. Google's help pages say you can track a product's price on Google and get a push notification and an email when it drops below your target price. Google lists the feature as available in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and India. - A page watcher. A monitoring service reads the exact product page on a schedule and alerts you when the price you are watching changes. ## How a Peekivo price watch is designed to work - The price is read as an amount with its currency, not as a piece of text. - You set a rule on that price, such as below $120. The rule is strict: with below $120, a price of exactly $120 does not notify you. - A rule compares prices only in the same currency. If the page serves the price in another currency, the rule does not count it as a drop. - When the rule matches, the alert shows the old and the new price side by side. > Asking Peekivo's assistant for a price drop alert in a sentence is not supported yet. A price watch is set up from the product page, its price and a rule. **Sample — Peekivo has not read this page.** "Manual price watch: the Halden lamp below $120" Page: A product page for the Halden lamp, a fictional product. Rule: The price, an amount in US dollars, is below $120; exactly $120 does not notify. Checked every six hours, the shortest interval on the proposed personal plan. Example: Price on the sample page: $135 (invented) ## What can go wrong - Some prices are drawn by scripts after the page loads. Those pages need a full browser read rather than a plain one. - Many stores show different prices and currencies by country. A watch reads the version the store serves to it, which may not be the one you see. - Some stores block automated reads. Peekivo does not get around bot walls or CAPTCHAs; the watch reports the read as blocked. - A product page can show a list price and a sale price. Pick the price you mean, or the alert follows the wrong number. ## Watching competitor prices The same kind of watch works on a competitor's pricing page. Competitor monitoring covers that case, together with plans, changelogs and terms. ## When another tool fits better - Amazon products: Amazon-focused trackers keep long price histories. Keepa, for example, describes itself as an Amazon price tracker. - Flights and hotels: fares change by search and date, and fare trackers on travel sites are built for that. - Products Google already lists: Google's own price tracking may be all you need. ## Example sentences > Sample watches; Peekivo has not read these pages. A manual price watch on the Halden lamp page with the rule "price below $120" (a fictional product). A text watch on Stripe's UK pricing page that alerts when its card fees change. > Peekivo is in early access. It is not watching pages for customers yet; today you can join the waitlist. Plans and limits described on this site are proposals that may change before launch. ## Common questions ### How do I set up price drop alerts? First check whether the store offers its own alert. If it does not, use Google's price tracking when the product appears on Google, or point a page watcher at the product page, choose the price and set a rule such as below $120. ### Can you set a price drop alert on Google? Yes. Google's help pages say you can track a product's price on Google and get a push notification and an email when it drops below your target price. Google lists the feature as available in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and India. ### Is there a way to be notified if something goes on sale? Yes. Use the store's own alert where it exists, Google's price tracking for products it lists, or a page watcher on the product page with a rule on the sale price. ### Is there a Chrome plugin that can track prices? Chrome has price tracking built in: Google's Chrome help describes tracking product prices and getting price drop notifications for people in Australia, Canada, India, Japan and the US. Third-party extensions exist as well. Peekivo's browser extension is not available yet. ### How do I set up a price tracker? Pick the product page, decide which price you mean, list or sale, choose how you want to be told and set the rule. With a page watcher you also choose how often it reads the page, within what your plan allows. ## Related pages - [Competitor website monitoring](https://peekivo.com/en/use-cases/competitor-monitoring) - [Restock alerts](https://peekivo.com/en/use-cases/restock-alerts) - [Terms and policy monitoring](https://peekivo.com/en/use-cases/terms-and-policy-monitoring) - [Proposed plans](https://peekivo.com/en/pricing) - [About Peekivo](https://peekivo.com/en/about) - [Peekivo home](https://peekivo.com/en) ## Sources - [About price tracking on Google, Google Shopping Help](https://support.google.com/googleshopping/answer/13971184?hl=en), fetched 2026-10-01 - [Shopping insights and price tracking in Chrome, Google Chrome Help](https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/11625545?hl=en), fetched 2026-10-01 - [Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker](https://keepa.com/), fetched 2026-10-01