Price alerts done right
An alert that fires late, or for a fake drop, trains people to ignore it. Getting alerts right is mostly about restraint.
Price alerts are the quiet engine of a shopping app. Done well, they bring people back at exactly the right moment. Done badly, they become noise the user mutes within a week.
Alert on the effective price
A drop in the sticker price is not always a drop in what you pay. Alerts in Authentic Deal watch the effective price — after coupons and offers — so the notification means something real happened.
Realistic targets beat wishful ones
We nudge people to set a target grounded in the price history. A target below the historical low will simply never fire. Showing the trend at the moment of setting the alert quietly improves the quality of every alert that follows.
- Track the effective price, not just MRP
- Guide targets using real history to avoid dead alerts
- Batch and de-duplicate so one drop is one notification
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