Personal Shopping Assistant
“Your smart shopping cart across the web”
The assistant is designed to automatically capture and save product information from product pages you browse. After downloading the assistant, simply shop online with your browser as you normally do. Products you browse will automatically start appearing within the assistant, under “Browsed”. You can additionally save products you love to “Favorites” and get notified when their prices change.
The personal shopping assistant automatically detects and remembers product web pages where there is a single dominant product for sale. Search results and catalog pages, with multiple products listed are not captured. Please use the feedback button in the assistant and report any product page along with the URL , that you think the assistant missed.
At this time price tracking and notification is done for your “Favorite” products. Please favorite the items you like with the heart shaped favorite button from within the assistant or by clicking on the blue favorite button that appears on a product web page you are browsing. Price tracking is done from your browser on your machine, at regular intervals.
Please report these instances along with the product page URL using the Feedback button within the assistant and we’ll do our best to address them in future updates
From within the assistant, click on menu button on the top right corner and click on the “Send to Mobile” option. Please note that you will need to login to use this feature.
Logging in allows the assistant to store and retrieve your products across devices. The assistant requires you to login when sharing products with others and when accessing your assistant on the phone. While sharing products, the recipients will be able to see your email address and reply back. We encourage you to login to get the most out of the assistant. You can always use the basic features of the assistant including price tracking for favorites without logging in. We support logging in with your Google (Gmail) or Microsoft (Outlook/Hotmail/Live) or Facebook accounts.
The assistant is automatically updated via the store, every time there is a new version. You can see the current version you are on from the Assistant menu, under settings.
You can now access your browsed and favorited products through the Personal Shopping Assistant bot on Facebook Messenger. We built this so that you can get to your products faster and on-the-go whenever you need it (e.g., that nikon camera that you saw yesterday on amazon.com). The bot will also notify of price changes and other places to buy when available, similar to the assistant on the browser.
You can get to the bot by clicking on 'Chat on Messenger' under the Assistant menu on the browser. In order to connect and start using your bot, you will need to login with the same account at both places - in the assistant on the browser and through the bot. The login account can be any of our three supported login services - Facebook/Google/Microsoft.
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