How to search:

1. Check  “Trace the item on this page” button. Once enabled,  you can do price comparison in one click.
2. Highlight item title on the page and click search.
3. Highlight item model # and click search.
4. Highlight item UPC or Item # and click search.
5. Select text and right click mouse to search.
6. Right-click mouse on the link to the product.

Settings:

1. You can show the toolbar at the top or at the status bar.
2. You may disable/enable automatically capture highlighted text.
3. You may control to open the search result in a new tab or a new window.
4. You may fill in your email address. When you search for an item, your email will be automatically filled in the price drop alert section on pricetrace.com.

Installation:

• You may download the toolbar from browser toolbar page on www.pricetrace.com or Mozilla official add-on download page.
• After you click install, you need to click “Allow” button on the upper right corner of FireFox to start installation.

Finally, online shoppers do not have to browse through countless sites for the best price of a single item. We recently released the PriceTrace toolbar for FireFox, which is  a Firefox add-on. After installing the toolbar, people can easily access this useful shopping tool, which will allow them to instantly check the price history of products they find on shopping sites with just a few clicks.

The PriceTrace toolbar has a “capture highlight text” feature that automatically inserts into the search bar the item name that consumers highlight. For example, a person who is browsing through BestBuy.com for a new camera can just highlight “Sony Cyber-shot 12.1-Megapixel Digital Camera” and this specific product name will automatically go to the PriceTrace search bar.

Even more notably, this PriceTrace Firefox add-on also features a one-click “Trace the Items on this Page” function, which automatically refers the shopper to the price history of the product. For instance, instead of highlighting “Sony Cyber-shot 12.1-Megapixel Digital Camera” on the BestBuy.com page, the shopper can just click “Trace the Items on this Page” and its price history will automatically open up in a new window. In this case, the shopper will know that Amazon.com offers a better deal for the camera at $164.99 instead of BestBuy’s $189.99. This striking feature works on most large retailer sites, such as Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, Macys.com, NewEgg.com, and many more. For a full list of store supported on PriceTrace.com, refer to http://www.pricetrace.com/storelist.php.

Another useful feature that comes with the pricetrace toolbar is that shoppers can even subscribe price drop alert for the items that they want to buy.  If the price becomes cheaper, an email will be sent to the subscriber.

This new PriceTrace Firefox add-on is a useful time-saving shortcut that online shoppers can use to research the prices of products conveniently. The toolbar can be installed from Mozilla official website at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13805 or directly at http://www.pricetrace.com/toolbar.php.

Here is a 3-minute video on YouTube on “How to Save Money with PriceTrace Toolbar“.

Here is an article about our recently released  FireFox Toolbar on pcworld.com: Do One-Click Comparison Shopping with PriceTrace by Rick Broida.

Now our users can simply copy a product URL from online store such as Amazon.com, Macys.com, Bestbuy.com, Buy.com, etc (see complete store list here), and paste it in the search search on PriceTrace.com, and trace the product price right away!

For example, when you are shopping at Amazon.com for LeapFrog Clickstart My first Computer, you can copy the URL (http://www.amazon.com/LeapFrog-Clickstart-My-First-Computer/dp/B000NRVFV8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1252825780&sr=1-1), and paste into the search box on PriceTrace.com , and you can see its Price Comparison Table and Price History by one more click!