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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
- 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
I'm on 87.0.664.30 (Official build) beta (64-bit) and it isn't showing up as an option. Is this still rolling out?
- marksheltonYes, it is still rolling out. If you don't have it now, you should have it within the next couple of weeks. It may also take a few restarts of your browser to activate the feature. Glad you're excited to use the feature!
It is very valuable feature , especially because due to COVID-19 there are people who are not in good financial situation and showing ways to save would be great benefit for them. I noticed this feature working well with U.S. website and is not fully localized for all countries. I believe it would be nice to expand it more and make it more localize.
In case we want to introduce promotion website , then shall we send them through Feedback or is there any special website? And some websites where contains promotion , might ask how can we join your list?
- marksheltonGlad you're so excited about this feature, Reza! We're currently primarily supporting US shopping websites, but it's good to hear that you would like us to expand our coverage. I encourage you to send Feedback with feature requests and bugs. As for adding promotions, Microsoft works with our partners on popular affiliate networks to provide deals and coupons. You can participate in those networks to promote your content to various publishers.
markshelton IT needs to coem to stable soon sicne holdiays is very soon
markshelton It would be so good if Edge can warn me if I am on a diffrent region of the website. LIke Amazon.com and warn me that I need to switch to Amazon.ca. Also A.I detect that. Also when on a international stie, be able to currency exchange and find better places in local place or just a better price of CAD not USD
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Deleted wrote:markshelton It would be so good if Edge can warn me if I am on a diffrent region of the website. LIke Amazon.com and warn me that I need to switch to Amazon.ca. Also A.I detect that. Also when on a international stie, be able to currency exchange and find better places in local place or just a better price of CAD not USD
that's not possible in all stores.
some stores, special game stores don't allow that and it's against their TOS to switch region for cheaper price.
there are other stores that also require local payments etc. it's gonna be a headache
- Yes definitely need to expand this to a lot more countries
markshelton it works just fine wish it would do this on hover.
- marksheltonThanks for the suggestion! So you would like the flyout to open when you hover over the icon instead of clicking it? Would that be easier for you? Why do you normally open the flyout?
markshelton Mark Great feature for MS Edge! How does this coupon feature collect coupon codes & can MS Edge users post/share/add their coupon codes in this feature somehow? I am ready to share my coupon code for a particular website product checkout if you can insert it manually for now...
markshelton Need to have an ability to mark "lower price found" item as incorrect. I was browsing for sneakers and I got a popup saying lower price found, but it's actually women's shoes and different size. And some other "matches" were also the same brand but different model(but similar name). So it needs to improve exact item detection and/or ability for people to tag items as the same/different.
Ooo. Goodie. More bullshit in Edge that can't be removed.
