Bulk price inquiry with Excel: price dozens of items at once

Pricing one product is easy — but procurement officers, purchasing managers, and contractors rarely deal with one product. They have a list: thirty, fifty, or a hundred items in an Excel file whose current price they need to gather for a quotation, a tender, or a purchasing file. When you run that list one item at a time by hand, it takes hours, and at the end you're left with numbers you can't trace to a source or a date. Bulk price inquiry with Excel was built for exactly this problem: you hand over the whole list at once and get back a documented price report.

Why the manual method breaks down on long lists

Getting a price for one item takes a few searches — but repeat that across a hundred rows and it becomes a slow, error-prone process. The usual problems with the manual method are:

• Time: every item needs its own search or phone call; a hundred items is a full working day.
• No source or date: you type a number into the sheet without recording which shop it came from or when, and days later it's no longer defensible.
• Copy errors: transposing a digit or dropping a zero while moving numbers into Excel by hand can ruin the whole quotation.
• Cached, stale prices: many sites show a figure from days ago, and you unknowingly enter an old price into your list.
• Outlier prices: a single unusually low number (a unit error or a smaller model) can throw off your entire estimate.

How bulk price inquiry works

The idea behind bulk inquiry is simple: instead of one product, you feed in the whole list at once. With Price Finder you have two ways to do it:

• Upload an Excel or CSV file; the system uses AI to detect the product-name column, even when the file has extra columns alongside it.
• Or copy a multi-line list and paste it into the chat box; each line is treated as one item.
• Up to 150 items can be processed in one run, and before it starts you confirm the detected list to make sure it was read correctly.

How each item gets priced

Crucially, doing this in bulk doesn't lower the quality of any individual price. Every row on the list takes exactly the same path a full single inquiry takes: the product name is searched across Torob, Digikala, Emalls, and Google at the same time. For the aggregators (Torob and Emalls), the system doesn't settle for the "from N shops" figure — it opens the seller's own site and reads the live price right there. That way each item gets a real, current price rather than a cached number.

Why the bulk report is defensible

What separates a professional report from a hand-built sheet is these details. In a bulk report, every row explains itself:

• The source and date of each price are recorded; you can see which seller it came from and what day it was read.
• Price freshness is tagged — "current price" versus "old price" — so a stale figure doesn't sit at the top of your list.
• Outlier prices are set aside; a number that is clearly a unit or parse error is pushed to the bottom with a warning and excluded from the "cheapest" choice.
• The right product is separated from the wrong variant; an AI relevance pass keeps only the genuine product and tags each row exact, variant, or related, so a phone case never sneaks into the report in place of the phone itself.

Excel and PDF output to attach to a quotation

When the inquiry finishes, the result is a downloadable report you can attach directly to a quotation or a purchasing file. The Excel output is useful for anyone who wants to work with the numbers — sum them, compare them against a budget — while the PDF output is for attaching to a formal report or sending to a manager. In both cases the source and date of every row live inside the report, so what you hand over is a documented product price list, not a few unsupported numbers.

Who benefits most

• Procurement officers who get a fresh shopping list on their desk every week and need prices fast.
• Purchasing managers who need the real market price range and a defensible document to make a decision.
• Contractors who must price dozens of items at once to prepare a quote or estimate for a tender.
• Wholesalers and traders who want to see competitor and market prices across a whole basket of goods at once.

This is the line between two use cases: a single inquiry for an everyday shopper, and bulk inquiry for organizational buying and tenders. If your work is specifically tenders, the more specialized approach to tender price research fits you better; and if you're chiefly worried about results being accurate and free of noise, the same AI relevance logic behind curated price results is exactly what the bulk report is built on too.

Conclusion: from hours of manual inquiry to minutes

Bulk price inquiry with Excel means that instead of spending a working day searching item by item, you hand the whole list to Price Finder and get a documented report in minutes. Just upload an Excel or CSV file, or paste a list of up to 150 items; each item is searched across Torob, Digikala, Emalls, and Google at once, the seller's live price is read, outlier and stale prices are set aside, and the right product is separated from the wrong variant. The result is an Excel and PDF output that — with the source and date on every row — you can attach to a quotation or purchasing file without a second thought.