SpendingPulse™ platform

Get access to daily metrics, refreshed weekly with only a five-to-seven-day lag from week’s end, compared to monthly government updates released two to three weeks after months’ close and later revised. Use near real-time updates to make short-term operational decisions, such as marketing promotion shifts and regions to focus on based on seasonal factors.

Tap into advanced modeling to accurately estimate retail spend based on near real-time, anonymized aggregate sales activity in the Mastercard payments network and survey-based estimates for other payment forms. Apply these insights to long-term strategic decisions, such as real estate and ordering strategy.

View granular insights at the national, regional, state, market, county, and sector levels. Use detailed data insights to inform big decisions.

Explore an intuitive user interface with customizable maps and graphics to showcase localized insights.

Compare in-store versus online spend to contextualize where and when consumers shift to digital sales channels.

Anticipate year-over-year growth and significant consumer spend periods.

Split data by industry sectors and subsectors to extract spend patterns.

Receive weekly expert commentary on key stories and trends driving your industry.

Export SpendingPulse™ insights across your preferred sectors and geographies for further analysis and decision-making.

Sourced directly from anonymized aggregate sales activity in the Mastercard payments network and modeled to reflect total sales across all payment types.

Timely insights with weekly data update; 5-7 day lag from weeks’ end; historical data insights available beginning in 2018.

Geographic granularity and global reach with the ability to segment by country, state, metro area and county (varies by country).

Measure daily nominal sales dollars, not indexed values.

Sector-level forecast available for the next 18 months with broad coverage of key discretionary and non-discretionary sectors.

Highly accurate with a strong correlation to official government retail sales estimates.