# Market Footprint Map: Where each rival ships, how it takes payment and in which currencies and languages, side by side with you.

> RivalSweeper reads each competitor's public storefront and records the countries it ships to, the payment methods it shows (card networks, wallets, buy now pay later), its currencies and its languages, with a dated history of every change. Your own footprint sits in the same view, so the market-entry deck starts from facts.

- Page: https://rotomal.com/competitor-market-footprint/
- Category: Competitive intelligence
- Language: en
- Billing: subscription
- From: $39 per month
- Provided by RivalSweeper: https://www.rivalsweeper.com/use-cases/competitor-market-expansion?utm_source=rotomal&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rotomal-usecases&utm_content=competitor-market-footprint&utm_term=agent

- Shipping countries, payment methods, currencies and languages per competitor, from what each storefront shows
- A dated history of each change, starting the day a rival is added
- Your store in the same grid, so gaps and overlaps by market are visible at a glance

## Market-entry decks are built on a competitor scan that is out of date by the board meeting

Before you open a market you need to know who already sells there and on what terms: do the rivals you lose to ship to Poland, price in zloty, offer the local wallet and a pay-later option, and run a localized site? Today that comes from days of clicking through country selectors and footers, written into a slide nobody updates.

The scan also misses the timeline. Knowing a rival ships to Sweden is useful; knowing they added krona and a Swedish storefront last quarter tells you where they are investing. Without a dated record you cannot tell an established market from a fresh push.

Cross-border terms are set market by market. In the EU a trader may not block shoppers by nationality but decides where it delivers, and import VAT rules shape how parcels from outside the EU are priced. A rival's ship-to list, currencies and payment options are real choices worth tracking.

- The EU Geo-blocking Regulation (EU) 2018/302 has applied since 3 December 2018. It bans unjustified blocking of shoppers by nationality or residence, but does not oblige a trader to deliver to every member state. (source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2018/302/oj)
- Council Directive (EU) 2017/2455 created the EU's import one-stop-shop VAT scheme for distance sales of goods imported in consignments with an intrinsic value of up to EUR 150. (source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2017/2455/oj)

## How it works

1. **Add your store and your rivals.** Start the trial and add the competitors you meet in the markets you sell in or are considering. Nothing to install; RivalSweeper reads public pages.
2. **The footprint is read.** For each rival, the shipping countries, payment methods, currencies and languages its storefront shows are recorded, along with yours. First data arrives within 24 hours.
3. **Changes are dated.** When a field changes, the change is kept with the date it was seen. History starts the day each rival is added; nothing is back-filled.
4. **Plan the market.** Compare footprints side by side when you rank markets or build the entry case, alongside the same rivals' prices, promotions and catalog.

## Features

- **Shipping countries per rival.** The countries each competitor says it delivers to, from its public storefront, so you see which of your target markets are already contested.
- **Payment methods by type.** Card networks, wallets and buy now pay later options visible on each site, so you know which local payment expectations rivals already meet.
- **Currencies and languages.** Which currencies each store prices in and which languages it offers, a direct read on how far its localization goes in each market.
- **Dated change history.** Every change to a rival's footprint is kept with its date, so you can separate a long-standing market from a recent push. History begins when tracking begins.
- **Your footprint alongside.** Your own store's countries, payments, currencies and languages in the same view, so gaps and overlaps per market are plain.
- **Prices in each rival's own currency.** When you compare price positioning across markets, each price is tracked against the same product's earlier price in its own currency, never mixed across currencies.

## Who it's for

- **Heads of international.** You own the market roadmap. You get a current, dated picture of where your competitive set sells and how localized each one is, for the next prioritization round.
- **Market expansion leads.** You build the entry case for one market at a time. You see which rivals already deliver there, in which currency, with which payment options.
- **Cross-border ecommerce managers.** You run the storefronts and checkout per market. You see where rivals offer a wallet or pay-later option that you do not, market by market.

## Works with

Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento and other storefronts (read from public pages), REST API (Pro and up), MCP for Claude and other AI assistants, CSV export (paid plans), Ask RivalSweeper AI (credits on every paid plan)

## Pricing

USD, billed monthly, cancel any time, 14-day money-back guarantee on every plan. The 14-day free trial needs no card (1 rival, last 30 days, 1 user). Book 15 minutes with the founder to add 2 more rivals free, kept when you subscribe. Extra monitored domains are $10 a month.

| Plan | Price | Includes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Basic | $39 per month | 2 monitored domains, 1 owned domain; 1 user; Up to 10,000 products per competitor; Competitor catalog, pricing and commercial reports; Ask RivalSweeper AI, 100 credits |
| Pro | $199 per month | 15 monitored domains, less than $14 per domain; 5 users; Up to 20,000 products per competitor; API, 10,000 requests a month, and MCP; Ask RivalSweeper AI, 1,000 credits |
| Enterprise | Custom contact sales | Unlimited monitored domains (via sales); 20 users; API, 200,000 requests a month; 10,000 AI credits; Dedicated account manager |

## Compared with the alternatives

- **A manual scan by the team or a consultant.** Clicking through each rival's country selector, footer and checkout. Thorough on the day, but a snapshot with no history, rarely repeated.
- **Market-research reports.** Good for market size and consumer trends. They rarely cover your specific competitors' storefronts.
- **Traffic-estimate tools.** Estimate where a site's visitors come from. Useful context, but visitors are not deliveries: they do not show where a rival actually ships, prices or takes payment.

## Security and data

- RivalSweeper reads public pages only; no connection to your store, ad account or analytics is needed for competitor monitoring.
- Every change traces to a dated observation and its source URL; history starts when tracking starts.
- The free trial needs no card; when it ends, access pauses and nothing is charged automatically.

## Your first week

The trial runs on your real competitors. Add them, confirm your email, and the first data arrives within 24 hours.

- Day 1: Start the free trial, add your store and first rival, and confirm your email so tracking starts.
- Day 1-2: First data within 24 hours for that rival.
- Day 3-5: Book 15 minutes with the founder to add 2 more rivals free for your shortlist markets.
- Day 14: The trial ends and access pauses; nothing is charged automatically.

## FAQ

### Will you alert me the week a rival enters a new market?

We do not promise that. You get each rival's footprint and a dated history of changes to it, to review when you plan. We would rather say so than sell an alert we cannot stand behind.

### Where does the footprint come from?

From what each competitor's public storefront shows: shipping destinations, payment options, currencies and languages. No private data, no connection to their systems or yours.

### Can I see a rival's sales by country?

No. RivalSweeper shows where a rival offers to sell and on what terms, not how much it sells there.

### How far back does the history go?

To the day each rival is added. Nothing is back-filled, so add the rivals in your shortlist markets now if you want a record before the next planning round.

### Is there a sample I can look at?

Not for this use case yet. The structure above lists every field; the fastest way to see real data is to add your own rivals on the free trial.

### Does it cover marketplaces?

It covers competitors' own storefronts. It does not track marketplace sellers.

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