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MicrosoftIntroducing Shopping with Microsoft Edge
Holiday season is quickly approaching and this year many of us will be shopping online more than ever before. Today, we’re excited to share some new features built into Microsoft Edge that we hope will help you save time and money these holidays.
Coupons are a great way to save money, but they often require a lot of work to find the right ones at the right time. That’s why we’re excited to announce our new coupons feature in Microsoft Edge (starting in build 86.0.622.61), which we hope will make it faster and easier to save money with built-in coupons. When you visit a retailer site, Microsoft Edge will alert you if there are any coupons available for that site. You can view the list of coupons at any time by clicking on the blue shopping tag in the address bar. At checkout, you can copy and paste a code or Microsoft Edge can automatically try them all to determine which one will save you the most.
Last month, we unveiled price comparison in Collections to help you find the best price online. Now we’re launching our next step, a proactive price comparison experience that meets you where you shop. When you’re shopping, Microsoft Edge will check prices at competing retailers to let you know if a lower price is available elsewhere. Click the blue price tag to see a list of prices along with direct links to the product page on those sites. If you already have the lowest price, Microsoft Edge will let you know too, saving your time and energy. Price comparisons is now rolling out in Insider channels.
This is just the beginning for shopping experiences on Microsoft Edge, and we’d love to hear what you think of them so far! Please send us feedback (“…” menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback) if something isn’t working right. If you’d like to manage your settings, go to edge://settings/privacy and look for “Save time and money with Shopping in Microsoft Edge”. And if there’s a shopping feature you’d like to see added to Microsoft Edge, we’re excited to hear that too.
- Mark Shelton, Program Manager, Microsoft Edge
markshelton How to connect coupons to the edge coupons platform?
markshelton Hi do you know how we can add discount codes to the extension. For a competitor like Honey you can add codes. so others can use and it keeps them up to date I would say.
I just wanted to know if there is a process to add codes? thanks
- Mark, I manage an e-commerce site and do not wish Edge Shopping to show any of my potential customers other competitors prices for the products I am trying to sell. How do I stop Microsoft from doing this?
- Agreed. I pay a lot of money for a lot of Microsoft products used by my business. I also go to a lot of expense and effort to bring traffic to my site. I don't need my business partner stabbing me in the back by sending shoppers elsewhere while they are on my site. Microsoft shouldn't be engaged so proactively in this kind of activity.
calbatross I think everyone is wasting their time on this thread. markshelton hasn't responded to anyone's concerns or comments for 16 months, and even then it was only to people offering praise and wanting more features, rather than controls and accountability. His actions aren't painting @microsoft in a very good or considerate light
- This is such a bad idea. I get that it's good for the consumer, but absolutely horrible for the e-comm business that this pops up on their website and offers ,lower prices on competitor websites (often large corporate companies like Amazon and eBay). This would be good if it only scraped coupons on the current site the user is on, like what the Honey extension does).
There is one flaw that is a bit annoying with MS shopping. When it compares products to same products on other sites it does not take into consideration the quantity of the items being compared. As show in the included Pic..
As you can see, the Walmart price is for a count of 6 cans, where the comparison being made is for only one can. You are not saving anything because of the inaccuracy of the comparison of 6 cans to 1 can... This happens all the time. And if you were to buy just one can at walmart the price would be roughly $3.78 per can.. Where is the savings?
Please fix....
Dennis5mile
p.s. I'd send feedback on it, but for some reason this latest Canary build "Version 99.0.1147.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)", crashes edge to desktop everytime I try to send feedback...- markshelton, there are a lot of queries & concerns about this Microsoft feature you announced but seemingly little/no response. It would be comforting to see you or anyone official at Microsoft taking some ownership and providing some explanation/reassurance, rather than avoiding tricky questions about a microsoft deployment. Cheers.
markshelton Hi
Sorry if this question has been asked previously. I would like to know why the shopping tag works in some websites and not others. I thought this would be a good tool to check that our prices were competitive but notice the blue tag does not appear on our website.
Have been using this feature extensively, I left chrome years ago. But recently this feature has stopped working both on stable and Dev Channel, it has stopped showing history of prices for e.g. on Ebay or Amazon in the UK. anyone else facing the same issue in UK? markshelton
markshelton as per other recent comments I would be interested to know how this works (site choice - it doesnt seem to appear on all sites, coupon hunting) and how you vet, and take responsibility, for fraud.
I have just tested this on one of our brand sites and I don't recognise the source and all the codes being suggested are incorrect. Like other people say, the concerns from a brand point of view are that this widget could be unwittingly serving up exclusive, 'closed group' offers that the browser isn't entitled to - it is noted that your widget doesn't serve up any legal terms & conditions that may be associated with the coupons - how do you plan to handle feedback from customers? As a brand I would expect microsoft to take full responsibility for any negative sentiment against our brand that this generates - what is the microsoft policy on this?
markshelton What actions can we take if a site is offering coupons on our site that we know are not real?
