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Know what you actually pay

The shelf price is not the price. NiftySeeker tracks what retailers charge, works out the real landed cost including shipping, duty and fees, and tells you when something worth knowing changes.

No card required. No tracking unless you say yes.

The cheaper one is not the cheaper one

Two listings for the same robot mower, on the same day. The left is £60 cheaper on the shelf and £43 dearer on the invoice.

A landed-cost comparison of two listings for the same product, showing each component that lands on the invoice
  Retailer A Retailer B
Shelf price £899.00 £959.00
Delivery £49.00 Free
Import duty £54.00 £0.00
Handling fee £12.00 £0.00
Voucher applied −£0.00 −£12.00
Landed cost £1,014.00 £947.00

Every line is stored as an integer number of pence against an explicit currency, with the date it was observed. Where a component cannot be established — a duty rate that depends on where you are, a delivery charge only shown at checkout — it is marked unknown and the total says so, rather than being quietly assumed to be zero.

Illustrative figures, not a live comparison.

What it does

One catalogue, many listings

The same product appears under a different name at every retailer. NiftySeeker matches them together — by identifier where one exists, by evidence where it does not — so you compare products rather than product pages.

The real cost, not the sticker

Shipping, duty, fees, and currency all land on the invoice. The landed cost calculation shows each component, and says plainly when a component is unknown rather than quietly guessing at it.

Prices over time

Every observation is kept, so you can see whether a discount is a discount or a return to the usual price. Charts are drawn on the server — no scripts, no third parties watching you read them.

Alerts that mean something

Rules you write: a price below a threshold, a drop by a percentage, stock returning. They fire on a change, not on every check, so a quiet inbox means nothing happened.

Purchase records

What you bought, from whom, for how much, with the paperwork attached and an approval trail. The part that matters at year end and is never there when you need it.

Exports and an API

CSV for a spreadsheet, JSON over a read-only API for anything else. Your data leaves as easily as it arrives.

How it is built

Decisions that are much easier to make at the start than to retrofit.

Separated, not filtered
Every workspace's data is isolated at the query level, on every query. Not a WHERE clause somebody has to remember.
An audit trail nobody can edit
Significant actions are recorded append-only, including from inside the application. Nobody can quietly rewrite what happened.
Money as integers
Amounts are stored in minor units with an explicit currency. No floating point anywhere near a price.
Nothing loaded from elsewhere
No CDN, no web font, no third-party script. Analytics runs only if you accept it, and is genuinely absent from the page if you do not.
AI is optional and never automatic
Connect your own key from any supported vendor, or none at all. Suggestions stay suggestions — a person always decides, and product data is all that is ever sent.
Backups that are verified
Nightly, checksummed, tested for readability, and pruned. A backup nobody has restored is a hope, not a backup.

What it does not do

Start with one product

Add something you buy regularly and a couple of the places you buy it. You will know within a week whether the price you are paying is the price you should be paying.

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