We recommand you to start by watching this short video (7 minutes).
It shows you the basics and allows you to be independent very quickly.
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If, despite this, you still had a question, you can ask us your question by filling this contact form.
CommoPrices is adressing every company willing to optimize its raw material purchases by working with a platform of market intelligence.
CommoPrices is particularly adapted to retailers and distributers that are working with a very large amount of raw material portfolios.
The user experience and the reliability of our data allow us to count as clients companies in every domains (Agrobusiness, Chemicals, Plastics, Industry), of all sizes : from SME to CAC 40.
We are positionning ourself as a plateform of market intelligence and quotations. That is why, CommoPrices is not:
If you want to know our position in the industry of market intelligence for raw material prices, here are some of our specificities.
We are offering the largest choice of raw material prices in the world (5500+ commodities). You do not need anymore to multiply the number of sources to find the prices of your different famillies (Agrobusiness, Chemical, Packaging...). CommoPrices is an "all in one" platform !
Technology is our job.
We are permanently working on the user experience for you to gain time and efficiency. Digital permits this. We are using its full potential (Web Technology, Big Data, Machine Learning).
Our subscriptions are without engagements and without hidden fees.
An happy client stays, a sad one will leave. It is that simple.
Our natural purpose is to make you fully satisfied.
Our plateform, as all the data are accessible at every moment and from any device with internet. Cloud magic.
To answer the needs of international groups, our portal is accessible in French and in English.
It allows you to display CommoPrices globaly.
To define the language, you can change your preferences in My account.
The search bar is placed at the left up on the webpage Commodities.
You can type everything you want. The research is made automatically on our entire database.
CommoPrices is classifying more than 5500 raw materials on its portal.
In order to easily find your raw material, we have created a super simple research arborescence.
This arborescence has been builded following this scheme: Familly > Sub Group > Material > Grade/Origin of the commodity
All of our data series are visualizable through a dynamic support. If your follow the curve with your mouse, it will show you the price on a specific date. You will also get the evolution % between the actual point and the previous one.
For some commodities, you can select different flows, origins, markets.
We give you the right to download the data on Excel format. It allows you to keep a copy of this historical data, but also to stay autonomous and flexible in your work.
For example, many clients compare their perfomance as buyers with our market data.
Gain time by creating your list of favorites!
The ideal is to create this list on your first connexion at your account.
To add a commodity to your list of favorites, you simply have to go on the page of this commodity and click on the "Favorites" button up right.
Once your add all your commodities, you will find them in the file 'Fav'. You will no longer need to search them in the entire list.
This list of favorites will directly fill you “Dashboard”.
Manage the currencies allows you to switch between one currency to another, by converting the entire data series with the historical rate established by the Central European Bank.
This conversion is available for more than 32 currencies !
Or quotes are very often in € or $ per ton. However it sometimes happens that raw material indicators are libelled in an other unit.
You can select the unit you want. It will directly charge the news curves. Simple and efficient.
You can not switch from one unit to another (unless you know the mass-volume of certain liquid)!
You will find on CommoPrices many data series, whose update frequency can vary daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly etc…
For simplicity, it is sometimes better to consult an indicator on a monthly or quaterly average than on a daily frequency.
We created for you the frequency management feature to meet this need.
You can change the history of your curve with a modular gauge. The graph takes immediately into account your changes
We also allow you to compare years on years.
This allows to easily compare campains between them.
The LAB is a specific area of our platform. It is a space in which we develop powerful features, often ahead of what is done in our industry.
Today, The LAB includes 4 advanced tools.
Your dashboard will help you to gain time.
The concept of the alert is very simple: we are alerting you by email if a raw material that you follow is widely varying.
We are your watch on commodity markets!
The alerts allow you to move from a defensive posture with your supplier ("he always takes the lead") to an offensive posture ("you know, so you trigger the encounter at the right time").
Create an alert is extremely simple.
You can either do it from the raw material page, by clicking on the top right "Create Alert" button. Or in The Lab, selecting the raw material from a dropdown list.
Once you have selected the raw material, you still have to define the trigger conditions.
An alert can be of 3 types:
A warning that is activated during a sudden movement of a material. Parameters of the alert:
An alert that is activated on a latent movement over a longer period of time.
Alert parmeters:
NB: This alert is of particular interest in connection with the lanes of price revisions.
An alert that is activated on a latent movement over a longer period of time.
Alert parmeters:
NB : The thresold can be triggered on a rise or a fall. It depends on the current level of the quote and the level of the threshold you fixed.
Once an alert is created, CommoPrices automatically makes the monitoring for you.
You can access, in the Lab, to the dedicated area "My alerts". Here you can view your active alerts and inactive alerts, either because they are alerts you disabled, or because, in the case of a trigger point, your alarm is automatically placed as "inactive".
The modelling module allows you to build a modelling of the cost evolution of a composite product, involving different raw materials following proportions indicated by the user.
You can integrate raw materials input but also macroeconomic ones as labor cost, cost of energy, freight costs, the cost of storage…
Create and monitor cost modelling helps to understand the evolution of a composite cost structure.
For example, you will not only know the price of cocoa, but you will be able to modelling the evolution of Nutella by adding in your modelling cocoa, sugar, palm oil, hazelnuts ...
Building a modelling is technical, but we put everything in place to make it simple and accessible.
Please watch this video that shows everything needed to understand this powerful tool.
The comparison module compares two curves on the same graph
It responds to conventional uses such as:
The comparison module is very simple to use.
Step 1: select raw materials or references that you want to compare
Step 2: set the currency and unit volume in which you want the references to be compared (optionnal)
Step 3: Validate and get the graph
Step 4 (optionnal) : if the two quotes you compare are expressed in the same currency and the same unit, you can display them on a single scale
We cover more than 5500 different raw materials, with different sources, Incoterms, qualities for each raw material.
To consult the complete raw materials referenced on our portal, please download the complete list.
According to the data source, the update can be daily, weekly, or monthly. We obviously strive for the data to be available as soon as possible.
More liquid is the market, the easier it is to get regular information.
The historical of data depend on the source.
In general, we try to guarantee the widest possible access to historical data.
We have, for 95% of our price series, at least 4 years of history.
Sometimes, however, we integrate new data whose history is more restricted.
It is our first priority!
We only work with reliable and persistent sources over time. For example for the palm oil we work directly with the Malaysian Palm Oil Board.
The interest of CommoPrices is precisely to ensure a reliable data to face-up the one announced by the supplier.
This sentence is deliberately provocative, but "a price does not mean anything"!
There are indeed, thousand effects and components of a price.
For more on this, please read this article (french article).
It is impossible to have a comprehensive view of all the world prices on a raw material, with all the possible grades, places of origin, the delivery locations, quality, installation and financial terms, respectability of CSR standards by the producers, or taking into account a long-term buyer-supplier relationship ...
The right method is to consider the information trends as the only information of value in your negotiations.
It is possible that a series stops. It's uncommon, but it happens. Everything depends on its source. When this happens, we do our best to incorporate a new equivalent source.
You do not find the raw material you are looking for?
Here is what to do:
Step 1: Look again! With synonyms if necessary. You may be typing an industrial designation.
Step 2: Use the search bar
Step 3: Use the tree arborescence Family> Subfamily> Core
Step 4: Contact us via the data suggestion form
A simple gold rule : it is strictly forbidden to distribute any data from CommoPrices.
The use of data is only authorized in your team at your company.
However, we can grant a special access for a partial redistribution of our data in two very specific use cases :
We have a REST API that allows developers to access our databases, as a stream : https://api.commoprices.com
You can consult the technical documentation at this address : https://api.commoprices.com/docs
Within a company, know and follow the trends of commodity prices is a need shared by many employees, especially within purchasing teams but also for sales, R&D departments, finance or management.
To meet this need, our plans subscriptions guarantee a number of users access. Invite collaborators, transfer access, remove collaborators ... The team system is built to handle it all, simply.
It is also relevant to expand the team system to tokens. If a company wants to buy tokens and make them available to its staff, it is possible!
A team is created once you have subscribed to one of our offers, subscriptions or tokens.
When you invite collaborators to your team, you can choose two levels of accreditation :
They have the same rights, with the distinction that only the ADMIN can access sensitive data (billing), purchase new tokens, change subscription plan or invite / revoke the invitation to employees.
Some principles :
There is no commitment at CommoPrices. We attract and retain customers only by the quality of our product and our offers.
The only rule is that every started month is due to pay.
From there, you are free to cancel at any time your subscription for the following months.
Termination can only be decided by an ADMIN account. Termination is in the section My account by stopping the current plan. Learn more on how to stop my subscription.
As you have propably seen, our subscriptions are “without engagement”. You can thus stop your subscription at any time.
Please note that all started month is due. So if you decide to stop your subscription, your access will be maintained until the end of the month. Your subscription will not be renewed for the following months.
Step 1 : Go to the section My account;
Step 2 : go to the subscription tab;
Step 3 : revoke the current subscription.
Take a subscription is relatively simple.
Choose your subscription, enter your billing information and your payment method (credit card) and that's it.
Once you have passed the payment step, activation of subscriptions is automatic.
It remains you to invite your colleagues in your team and give them accreditations.
If you wish to be exempted of VAT because your company is outside European Union, just fill the contact form below (click on Contact Us) with your company details.
We will then manually activate VAT exemption on your account.
We offer highly reliable forecasts on commodity prices.
We provide with month after month forecasts up to 24 months.
A team of highly recognized experts on price forecasts is working specifically on that matter. Using data science and machine learning on all of our commodities, our team adds exogenously parameters and human analysis to provide highly accurate forecasts.
Several clients already trust us in order to make smart antipated purchases or to accurately forecast their budget expenditures.
Interested ? Please fill the form below (click on Contact Us) and let us know which commodities you would be interested into.
We only accept payment by credit card.
This is the only way for us to ensure a subscription without commitment.
The details of your credit card is never stored on our servers, but are directly encrypted and protected by the Stripe payment solution (Stripe is the world leader for online payments). The transaction is secured, simple and transparent.
The security of payment methods is obviously taken very seriously. We do not store any payment information on our servers. They are encrypted and supported by Stripe, worldwide leader on internet payment.
Stripe holds the security level PCI Service Provider Level 1, the highest level of certification for the payment industry.
Furthermore our site shares information via (HTTPS): an Internet protocol ensuring secured exchanges. The URL of your browser always mention the protocol HTTPS.
We issue invoices for every purchased tokens or monthly subscriptions on CommoPrices.
All thoses invoices are stored in : My Account.
CommoPrices.com is a website published by COMMOCOST SAS.
Here are legal informations:
Raison sociale : COMMOCOST
Forme de société : SAS
HQ : 78, avenue Raymond Poincaré, 75116 PARIS - FRANCE
Capital social : 13 354 euros
Siret : 802 218 347 000 10
RCS : Paris
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VAT : FR 81802218347
If you have any problem regarding this aspect, please contact us through the contact form.
The security of your account is important. We take it very seriously.
We are using a secured transmission protocol of HTTPS type, ensuring that requests between your browser and our servers are protected by this method.
In addition to our exchanges and markets data collect, we want you to pay attention to the fact that all the modellings you build on the site are - like your password - encrypted.
They are not accessibles nor for CommoPrices administrators nor to anyone except you.
Our servers are hosted in Europe, in Amsterdam, on a very qualifed host : Digital Ocean.
We are realizing “backups” of our servers each week.
For obvious reasons, we have to pass our website into maintenance. Maintenances are relatively rares (once a month), and last for only few hours.
Everything as been set up to minimize it and to do it on low attendance periods.
Thanks in advance for your understanding.