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Can Sellhelm read your supplier?
Paste the address of any product page. This runs the program's own reader against it and shows you two things: the draft listing it would build, and which of the several ways of reading a page actually worked on that shop.
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What this actually proves
It is the program's own reader
Not a copy written to look good on a website. The same files, copied from the program, running here. If the program improves, this improves with it - and a test stops the two ever drifting apart.
It tries several ways, then tells you which won
The shop's structured data, the data its own page scripts use, and the standard answer its platform gives - Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento and Squarespace all answer for themselves. Most tools have one way of reading a page and go quiet when it fails.
It shows the draft, not a tick
Photographs, title, the price you would pay, the price to sell at for a 25% return after every fee, stock, barcode and specification. That is the same draft the extension puts in your panel.
32 shops are built in. This is for the other ones.
Sellhelm has a reader written for each of 32 named shops, because those are the ones worth tuning by hand: the biggest galleries, the awkward stock wording, the shops that quote a price without VAT. But a dropshipper's supplier list never matches anybody else's, and "is my supplier supported?" is the question everybody asks before buying. So Sellhelm was built to read shops it has never met.
Most shops on the web describe their products in a standard way so that Google can show them, and a great many of the rest run on a platform that publishes the same product data on every shop using it. Between those, a page's own scripts, and a simpler copy of the page made for phones, an ordinary product page usually reads on the first try. When it does not, the reason shown above is the real one, and it tells you which part was missing rather than shrugging.
Why a shop sometimes needs your own browser
A shop can tell a server from a person's browser, and some refuse servers. This page has only a server, so those shops stop here. The program does not: the Chrome extension reads the page in the browser you are already using, and hands what it read back to the panel. Nothing is automated on the shop's site and nothing is signed into - it reads the page in front of you, once, when you ask it to.
That is the honest shape of it, and it is why the suppliers page marks which shops need the browser. A tool that claims it can read everything from a server either has not tried, or is not telling you what happens when a shop says no.
Questions
Is this the real reader, or a demonstration?
It is the real one. The website runs the same reader the program runs, copied out of the program file for file, and a test fails if the copy ever falls behind. What you see here is what the program sees.
Why do some shops say they will not answer a server?
A shop can tell the difference between a browser and a server, and some refuse servers to keep price-scrapers out. This page is a server in a data centre, which shops are warier of than a home broadband line, so a few shops that refuse this page will answer your own computer perfectly well. Either way the program reads them through its Chrome extension, in your own browser - which is a different thing entirely, and is why the extension exists.
Does it work on shops that are not on your list?
That is the point of it. There are shops built in with a reader written for each, but most shops describe their products in a standard way for Google, publish their own product data for their own page scripts, or run on Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento or Squarespace - all of which Sellhelm knows how to ask. Paste a shop nobody has ever tested and it usually works.
What does "two ways agree" mean?
The page is read more than one way where more than one is available - the shop's structured data, the data its own scripts use, and its platform's answer. If two of them give the same price, that is real confidence. If they disagree, Sellhelm tells you instead of quietly choosing.
Do you store the links I check?
No. The address is read, the answer is kept in memory for a few minutes so pressing the button again does not ask the shop twice, and then it is gone. Nothing is written down and nothing is sent anywhere else. Asking us to add a shop is the one exception, because that is a message to us, and you choose to send it.
Will it read anything?
Only ordinary public product pages. It will not read an address on a private network, and it will not sign in to anything. eBay item pages need your own eBay keys, which live in the program, not here.
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