Building materials pricing
Price monitoring for building-materials suppliers.
Track how DIY chains, builders' merchants and marketplaces price tile, boards, insulation, mortar and fixings — normalised per m², per pallet and per pack, so a pallet price and a piece price finally compare. Built for suppliers and manufacturers.
Where margin leaks in building materials
Manual price tracking is killing your margin.
- Every shop sells a different quantity. Per piece, per pack, per m², per pallet — the same tile has four prices on four sites, and none of them are directly comparable.
- Season swings the whole market. Prices move with the building season and the weather; a benchmark from March says nothing in July.
- DIY chains price by region. The same chain runs different prices per city or per store, and a single national check misses the market you actually sell in.
- Near-identical variants create false comparisons. Thickness, grade, coverage and fire rating separate two products whose titles differ by one word — and a name-based comparison treats them as the same line.
- Delivery is a large part of the cost. For heavy goods the shipping line can exceed the margin, so a price comparison that ignores it is misleading.
How Helecos closes the building-materials gap
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Per m², pallet and pack normalisation
Prices converted to one comparable unit, so a pallet of 48 packs and a single pack sit on the same axis. -
DIY chains, merchants and marketplaces
Big-box retail, specialist builders' merchants and marketplaces tracked side by side, across countries and regions. -
Regional storefronts, once you name them
Point us at the regional stores of a chain and the same SKU is followed in each, instead of assuming one national number. -
Seasonality in the history
Full price history per SKU and per competitor, so a season-over-season comparison replaces a snapshot argument.
Transparent pricing
One pricing for all verticals.
Start with 100 daily SKUs from €25/mo. Building-materials suppliers typically run on Standard (€179, 4,000 daily SKUs across 20 competitor sites) or Extended (€349, 10,000 daily SKUs across 30 sites). Regional and multi-country setups are covered by custom plans.
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Stop comparing a pallet price to a piece price.
3,000 checks free for 30 days. EU-based. GDPR-ready. Per-m² normalisation, regional tracking and full price history out of the box.