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title: "Types of extract"
description: "The four extract types Eebz runs, what each captures and when to use it."
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An extract is a snapshot of product data read from a retailer's website. Eebz runs four types, each capturing different data.

Every retailer is read at the time it reprices, and the data is ready by 10am local time. If a read fails, Eebz never fills the gap with the previous day's figure: you only see what shoppers could see that day.

## Product page extracts (PDP)

A product page extract captures a full snapshot of one product's page at one retailer. It is the standard extract behind most monitoring.

**What it captures**

- Price, original price and discount
- Availability
- Content: title, description and images
- Review score and count
- Promotion status and tags
- Seller and supplier
- Category and marketplace details

**When it runs**

The schedule follows the product's [lifecycle stage](/support/lifecycle-and-importance). New Release and Catalogue products are read more often than Late Life and End of Life products. You don't need to trigger anything.

The raw page content is kept for 3 days for troubleshooting. The structured extract record is kept indefinitely.

## Category and search extracts (PLP)

A category and search extract captures where a product sits in a retailer's category pages and search results. Product page extracts tell you what is on a product's page; these tell you where that page sits on the shelf. The app labels them PLP (product listing page).

**What it captures**

- Category rank
- Search rank for the search terms you choose
- Featured or sponsored placement in results
- Visibility across listing pages

**When to use it**

Use it to check your products appear where shoppers browse and search. It feeds the Discovery parameters in [PerfectPage](/support/perfect-page).

## Store extracts

A store extract captures stock and price at each physical store for retailers with a store network, such as Currys, Argos and John Lewis.

**What it captures**

- Availability by store
- Price by store
- Stock quantity by store
- Store size and location

**When to use it**

Use it when you need to see how stock and price vary across a retailer's stores, not only online.

In the app, store data has its own **Store** tab on a listing: a sortable table of every location with its stock and price. Filter to in-stock stores only, and download the table as a CSV. Each retailer's **Stores** tab lists the stores Eebz covers.

![A retailer's Stores tab listing each store with its name, store number and address](/images/support/stores-tab.webp)

## Trade-in extracts (PTI)

A trade-in extract captures what a retailer will pay to buy a product back, by condition.

**What it captures**

- Grade A price (like new)
- Grade B price (good)
- Grade C price (fair)
- Grade D price (poor)

**When to use it**

Use it in categories with buyback programmes, such as consumer electronics and mobile phones, to track trade-in values alongside new prices.

A trade-in extract runs alongside a normal extract for the same listing and is processed separately.

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> **Contract extracts** capture subscription and contract pricing (device price, deposit, monthly price and contract length) for retailers that sell on contract.

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