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Solution
The report your team rebuilds every week.
Somebody exports, cleans, matches, pivots, formats and sends it. Every week, for years. Automated e-commerce reporting is the decision to stop paying for that with your analysts’ time.
What automated e-commerce reporting means
It means the recurring market report is produced and delivered without a person assembling it: the data is collected and matched automatically, the numbers refresh on a schedule, and the output arrives in the format its readers already expect. The distinction that matters commercially is between exporting a file — still a manual process, just a faster one — and automating the process that produces the file.
KLIKER’s position is deliberate: rather than requiring every customer to abandon their reporting and move into another dashboard, it can deliver market intelligence into the workflow they already run.
Export vs automate
Where the difference actually shows up
Four ways the same numbers can reach a reader, and what each one costs somebody every week. The delivery routes themselves are described in detail on the reporting page.
| Manual export | Scheduled report | Live Excel | API | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who produces it | Your analyst, weekly | Nobody | Nobody | Nobody |
| Stays current | No — stale on save | Yes, per schedule | Yes, on refresh | Yes, per pull |
| Keeps your format | Yes, manually | Yes | Yes | Your BI layer decides |
| Reaches non-users | By e-mail, manually | Yes | Via shared drive | No |
| Version confusion | High | Low | None — one workbook | None |
What gets automated first
The reports teams hand over
Nobody automates everything at once. These are the recurring reports that go first, because their inputs are market data and their structure never changes.
Competitive price index
Your price against the market by category and retailer, with movement since last period.
Pricing meetings start from factsRetailer scorecard
One retailer, one page: listings, price competitiveness, promotions, stock and content.
Better partner conversationsWhat changed this week
New products, delistings, price and stock changes across the monitored market.
Assortment drift caught earlyPromotion recap
Which promotions ran, where, how deep and against which competitor activity.
Post-campaign review without archaeologyPer-brand report pack
Distributors and retailers sending each supplier only their own view.
Admin removed from the relationshipThe honest limit
Where automation stops
- Market data automates — prices, promotions, availability, assortment, content, and any KPI built from them
- Your internal data does not — sell-out, margin and stock on hand are outside what KLIKER monitors
- Mixed reports automate partly — the market half arrives on its own, the internal half is still joined by your team
- Judgement never automates — the commentary at the top of the report is still yours to write
Which half is which becomes clear in about ten minutes, looking at the actual file.
This is why the demo asks for last week’s report rather than a description of it. A promise made before seeing the file is a guess, and a report that turns out to be half-automatable is still a week returned to the team every month.
Questions
Reporting automation FAQ
Is an XLSX export not already automation?
No — it is a faster manual step. Somebody still decides when to run it, where to put it and who to send it to, and the file is out of date the moment it is saved. Automation means nobody has to do any of that, which is the first row of the table above.
Do our recipients need a KLIKER login?
No. Scheduled reports reach anyone on the distribution list, and live Excel workbooks live on your own drive. That is usually why seat counts end up smaller than expected.
Can the report keep our existing format?
Yes — that is the point of custom reports. The KPI structure, retailer grouping, competitive set and layout follow the report your organisation already reads, so nobody has to relearn it.
Can KLIKER feed Power BI or our data warehouse?
Yes, via the API add-on. The data lands in your reporting infrastructure and your existing layer does the presenting.
How current is the data in an automated report?
It reflects the latest available data for your licensed markets and categories, which is refreshed multiple times throughout the day. A live Excel workbook shows the state at the moment you refresh it.
Bring last week’s file
We will tell you honestly which parts of it can be automated, and which cannot.
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