As the shopping season is at our doorstep, Pinterest lends a hand and helps you purchase items directly from its app, taking advantage of various discounts.
The platform recently revealed a simple new way of buying items you pinned earlier. This allows you to follow the rise and (preferably) fall of certain prices, thus adding more checks to your wish list.
For every pinned item that goes on sale, Pinterest sends you an email notification and an in-app notice. This means that within minutes of the price trimming, you can buy the desired item directly from the app. According to a blog post from the company, there are numerous objects with reduced prices on the platform.
"Every day, there are over 1 million Pins with reduced prices, so you're sure to find some good steals," Software Engineer Wonjun Jeong posted.
The photo sharing company started the initiative as early as June, when it made public that users of the platform will get access to buyable pins. The statement encouraged vendors to add the "buy" button to pins, and many of them complied.
It is not the first noticeable change in Pinterest's modus operandi. The platform started to tailor itself as a search engine more and more seriously. Last month, the company added an image search feature to its app. It allows users to look for visually similar items, an important aid for those who browse Pinterest for shopping ideas. To improve the quality of the findings, users may add keywords to the image-focused search.
"There are dozens of interesting items within a Pin's image; we want to give Pinners a tool to learn more about these items," Andrew Zhai Pinterest engineer wrote on the company's blog a while back.
If you are running out of ideas of places to visit, Pinterest also has you covered.
The company followed the example Google set with Yelp, and extended the functionality of its existing place pins. Even if place pins were present on the photo sharing platform since 2013, the company updated their functionality in Oct. 2015.
After the update, Pinterest users may read reviews of pinned places, their working hours, driving directions in Google Maps and Apple Maps and more.
