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# Price updates

Affiliate Egg keeps your stored product data — **price and availability** — in sync with the shops automatically, so the numbers on your site stay current without you touching them.

## How it works

Updates run on **WordPress Cron**. Set the cadence with the **Product update interval** in **Affiliate Egg → Settings** — how often each product's price and stock is refreshed, in seconds (30 days by default; set it to `0` to never update). Pick an interval that suits how fast your prices actually change.

Each update re-reads the product from the shop, just like when you first added it — so the same reliability notes apply:

* **Don't update too often.** Frequent updates mean more requests to each shop, which raises the chance of being [blocked](/getting-data-reliably/blocking.md). For most sites, a daily (or slower) interval is plenty.
* If a product can't be read during an update — the shop is down or blocking — it simply keeps its last known values and tries again next time.

## Category lists refresh too

Products added from a **category or listing URL** refresh on their own schedule — the **Category & listing update interval** — but with a twist: Affiliate Egg re-reads the listing page and rebuilds the set, so the list stays current while the *exact* products can change over time. See [Category imports refresh themselves](/storefronts/adding-products.md#category-imports-refresh-themselves).

## If updates don't seem to run

WordPress Cron only fires when your site gets visitors, so on a low-traffic site updates can lag. If that's a problem, ask your host to set up a **real server cron job** that triggers WordPress on a schedule. It's a standard WordPress setup, and it makes updates reliable no matter how much traffic you get.