Accurat vs. RetailSonar for location analytics

Discover how our data is different from other solutions and why real-world behaviour data is extremely powerful for your future decision making.

Accurat and RetailSonar are both great analytics solutions. But what if RetailSonar just doesn't satisfy your needs? As a RetailSonar alternative, Accurat stands out as so much more than an expansion & marketing campaign tool. With Accurat's powerful dashboards you get insight into your actual clients' behaviour and your competitors and use that data for use cases beyond expansion and folder optimisation.

Accurat RetailSonar
How it works?800.000+ share location data to derive store insights across industries RetailSonar has 3 "features": Data / AI to predict customer behavior / Optimize to uncover the optimal future network
Nature of panel
  • Proprietary SDK for data-collection
  • Data-brokers
  • Data-brokers
Representativity models in use
  • Socio demographic
  • Sublocality level
  • Ticket data
  • Socio demographic
  • Sublocality level
  • Ticket data
Insights to derive
  • Market penetration
  • Frequency
  • Recency
  • Budget spent
  • Dwell time
  • Transport insights
  • Origin-destination
  • Audiences attracted
  • Footfall
  • Cannibalization
  • Share of visits
  • Loyalty
  • Visit transfer
  • Market penetration
  • Frequency
  • Recency
  • Budget spent
  • Dwell time
  • Transport insights
  • Origin-destination
  • Audiences attracted
  • Footfall
  • Cannibalization
Depth of insights
  • National
  • Regional
  • Store level
  • Custom store groups
  • Regional
  • Store level
  • Custom store groups
Audience profiling
  • RF(M) & Loyalty
  • Socio demographic
  • Behavioural intent
  • RFM
  • Socio demographic
  • Behavioural intent
Drive to store evaluation modelIncremental visits measured Incremental visits measured
Competitor benchmarking
  • Unlimited # of brands
  • Cross-category
  • Unlimited # of brands
Time-based comparisonsBack to 01/2020 for all competitors and parametersBack to 01/2020
Service modelDaily updated web-based dashboards for all parameters and brands Daily updated web-based dashboards for all parameters and brands
Delivery timesNear realtimeStructural data (annual insights)
MappingBuilding shapes for all of the locations of your brand and all locations of your competitorsStreet segments for all the location of your brand and all locations of your competitors
MomentsDay specific (e.g. Saturday 01/04/2022)Weekly averages
PricingLong-term contract for all locations (current & future) of your brand & competitorsPricing for # of locations, service levels and user rights via long-term engagement

RetailSonar is a powerful solution if you are only looking into improving your expansion and marketing campaign strategies. The same insights to improve those strategies are available on the Accurat platform along with so much more. If you're looking for in-depth brand, store & consumer insights & analysis platform, Accurat seems to be a better fit providing consumer traffic insights into your brand and that of your competitors.

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