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Get Notified When Your Competitors Change Their Pricing with Airtop and Slack

ByAirtop @cesar-at-airtop on n8n.io

Staying on top of competitor pricing changes can be a full-time job. Manual price tracking is time-consuming and prone to errors, especially when dealing with complex pricing structures and multiple subscription tiers. Paid competitor price monitoring tools like Competera,…

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This workflow follows the Google Sheets → Slack recipe pattern — see all workflows that pair these two integrations.

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  "meta": {
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  },
  "name": "Monitor Competitor Pricing",
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      "position": [
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    {
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      "parameters": {
        "url": "={{ $json[\"Pricing URL\"] }}",
        "prompt": "=This is a pricing page. Please summarize it concisely by including every plan. For each plan, list the price and the top 3 features it includes. Compare the current plan to the previous plan described here: \n[{{ $json.Pricing }}].\n\nRETURN ONLY 3 FIELDS:\n1. `pricing_summary` - A textual description of the pricing, including the  plan's name, price, and top 3 features.\n2. `differences_summary` - If there are significant differences in the PRICES between the previous plan and the current one, summarize the differences concisely in a textual description, focusing only on the changes in prices.\n3. `status` - In a status field, return [DIFF] if the new plan and pricing are substantially different from the previous one, [SIMILAR] if they are similar, or [NEW] if the previous pricing is empty.\n\n- important, do not guess or estimate, just report things that are clearly mentioned in pricing page\n",
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      "parameters": {
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        "options": {},
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      "typeVersion": 3.1
    },
    {
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      "name": "Update pricing",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.googleSheets",
      "position": [
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        -280
      ],
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          "value": {
            "Time": "={{ $now }}",
            "Pricing": "={{ $json.pricing_summary }}",
            "row_number": "={{ $json.row_number }}",
            "Pricing URL": "="
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              "canBeUsedToMatch": true
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      "name": "Notify pricing change",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.slack",
      "position": [
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        -80
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      "parameters": {
        "text": "={{ $json[\"Pricing URL\"] + \" - \" + $json.differences_summary }}",
        "select": "channel",
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          "mode": "list",
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          "cachedResultName": "pricing-changes"
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        }
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      "name": "Filter out similar",
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            "type": "main",
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          {
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          {
            "node": "Update pricing",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          },
          {
            "node": "Notify pricing change",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
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        [
          {
            "node": "Get Pricing URLs",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
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  }
}

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About this workflow

Staying on top of competitor pricing changes can be a full-time job. Manual price tracking is time-consuming and prone to errors, especially when dealing with complex pricing structures and multiple subscription tiers. Paid competitor price monitoring tools like Competera,…

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