More of your Best Ideas!

Hello Patrons :)

It's release day - and these changes all come from the Your Best Ideas for BrickHawk competition that happened late last year!

There's a bit to cover on this one, so here's a brief overview first of what was released:

• Updated email header/summary text, to show the right info on email previews in your inbox and on devices like the Apple Watch 
• Price difference percentage compared to RRP/MSRP now shown in all Hawk Alerts
• A new "Best deals" panel on the brand new dashboard (still in beta, for Middle Hawk and up)
• Theme and retailer filtering for the dashboard panels
• The new "loading placeholder" has been rolled out to more places
• The set link on the Hawks page has changed to go to the set's Current prices tab (previously it linked to the Alerts tab)

Now the long winded version... with some pictures!

Updated email header/summary text

This idea came from Adam, and puts the percentage difference from RRP/MSRP, as well as the set's price and availability up in the header (or summary) of the email. This shows up in the preview bar in email clients like Gmail, and is designed to get this key information onto the screen of your Apple (or other brand of) watch device!  

Price, RRP difference and availability is in there:

RRP/MSRP difference now shown in all Hawk Alerts

Scott's idea was also for the Hawk Alert emails - and called for the percentage difference from RRP/MSRP to be in every Hawk Alert email. Previously this was further down in BrickHawk Insights, and also appeared next to the price change only if you had RRP comparison switched on for the Hawk. It's now there all the time, just after the price and in bold:

"Best deals" dashboard panel

Last week Alan's winning Best Idea was launched exclusively to Middle Hawk and up Patrons for some early beta testing, and this week we see an addition to the dashboard - Best deals. 

Previously the Recent changes dashboard panel could give you some info about the best deals in recent changes, but it also included great deals that had gone out of stock, and is  crowded with availability and offer changes too. 

Best deals contains the best prices on sets that (to BrickHawk's best knowledge) are in stock, ready to buy. You can filter by your Hawked sets as well as any sets from your THEMEHAWKS!

Filtering the dashboard panels

Not only is there the new Best deals panel, but the three new dashboard panels (Best deals, New releases and Retiring soon) have all got new filters - by theme and by retailer. With these filters you can quickly see, for example:

• All new releases for the Star Wars theme... or
• Best deals on the Super Mario theme from Amazon... or
• Your Hawked sets from the Lego Shop that are about to retire... and many other combinations!

New "loading placeholder"

The new dashboard layout came with a new experience to make it easy to see when BrickHawk was loading in sets or your filters were being updated.

The feedback around this has been really positive, so it was rolled out to more places across brickhawk.com. Current prices and Change history tabs for individual sets, the original homepage, and retailer listings too: 

Expect to see this experience rolled out across more places in the weeks and months ahead!

Updated set link on the Hawks page

The last one for today comes from Thomas, who asked for a really simple change - the link for each set on the Hawks page to go the set's Current prices tab, rather then the set's Alert tab. This one made 100% sense, and the link's destination has been changed!

Thank you!

Thanks for all of your ideas, suggestions, and feedback. If your idea wasn't in today's release, don't despair - it's not been forgotten!

And a massive thank you for your continued support! I really mean it when I say that your support, as well as the ideas and feedback, is truly appreciated. You really are the best :)

BH.