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. 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.

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.