Scout Q1 Newsletter
April 21st, 2022
Major Updates:
Bulk Shipping
We know many of you already use StockX bulk shipping, and now you can manage & stay up to date on your bulk shipments directly from Scout. Simply go to the sales tab and click “Create shipment” at the top, or you can select items and right click on them. Add items to your bulk shipment and we’ll process it with StockX! This is just the beginning - in the future you’ll have a dedicated area to manage and track all of your outgoing sale shipments. Enjoy!
Email Hub
Email Hub has been a staple for our customers ever since we first shipped it in November 2020. However, due to the speed & amount of sites we have raced to equip it with, there have inevitably been some bugs that have arisen along the way. Therefore, one of our primary initiatives in Q1 2022 was completely redesigning the Email Hub backend. You can expect there to be significantly less downtime, increased accuracy, more sites supported, & more emphasis on automated handling.
Link to this page coming soon
iOS Market Tab
We’ve completely redesigned the iOS market page to make it easier than ever to find new and trending products to acquire and sell. This page now includes a new “Recently Viewed“ section, which displays your history of viewed products. We’ve also added filter options so you can easily refine your search results.
UX Cleanup
In an effort to simplify & perfect the core experiences of Scout, we’ve combed through and removed a slew of mostly-unused pages/features from the website & app. Not only will this provide a much cleaner user experience, but it will also allow us to focus on building robust features that users truly want.
All of your data from these pages will be available for you in your exports section of the settings page once the update is live. The removal is estimated to take place early-mid next week. We will ping again when it's live!
Pages/Features Being Removed:
- Bots
- Bot Vault
- Releases tab
- Referrals tab
- BotBroker Integration
- Tickets
- All TopShot References
What’s Next
While Q1 has come to a close, we are off to the races working on new features & updates in Q2. Here’s an exclusive sneak peek on what’s coming up:
Global Expansion
Today, Scout is optimized for US customers. We want to fix that - expect a huge push towards localizing Scout for sellers in Europe and other regions outside the US.
New Integrations
We’re actively laying the groundwork for adding new marketplace integrations to Scout. Expect more places to sync & list soon.
Decreased Downtime
One of our major goals is to bring Scout downtime to a minimum.. This is a part of a larger push to refactor and optimize Scout’s backend.
Scout Employee Spotlight
Over the last few months, we’ve added many new faces to the Scout team. We’ve chosen Alex Pan as this quarter’s employee spotlight!
1. Hey Alex! How are you doing today?
I’m doing well, the weather is getting warm again.
2. Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Los Angeles, but now live in Orange County.
3. What inspired you to get into Engineering?
I used to be an accountant and my first foray into programming was writing Visual Basic code to automate some repetitive tasks in Excel, which was far more interesting than accounting itself.**
4. Are you a sneakerhead? What’s your favorite sneaker?
Yeah, I would say so. My most coveted sneaker at the moment is the Parra x Nike SB Dunk “Abstract Art” that was released for the Summer olympics.
5. What excites you most about working on Scout?
I am excited to work alongside exceptionally talented team members to help build integrations that will make Scout the best multi-platform reselling tool in the industry. 🐎
Fun Fact:
The top selling item on scout in Q1 was the adidas Yeezy Slide Ochre! Did you cop any?
Thanks for tuning in to our first ever Quarterly Newsletter. ‘Till next time 👋
Happy Scouting!
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Bugfixes and Tweaks
July 16th, 2021
We've been ironing out some often heard issues.
Quality of Life Improvements
- Tweaked browser autofill rules to reduce annoying autofill popups
- Slightly improved dashboard chart loading times
- Added right click menu to Expenses and Incomes
- Improved UPC database
Bugfixes
- Fixed email hub & bulk edit datepicker
- Fixed where the "Bulk Actions" menu sometimes stopped functioning
- Fixed package searching by tracking code
- Fixed where YS emails could be imported with no size
- Fixed where some StockX emails couldn't be linked to an item
- Fixed charts going flat
Introducing Email Hub for selling
July 2nd, 2021
Exciting launch week at Scout! We've been working on getting the new Email Hub Selling update out along with highly requested changes and fixes
Email Hub Selling
- Added StockX
- Added Stadium Goods
- Added Flight Club
- Added Restocks.net
Quality of Life Improvements
- Nike Email Hub now handles women's sizing properly
- Notes and Tracking Number are available as columns on the Inventory and Sales page
- Cleaned up onboarding flow
- Merged all Flight Club references to Goat
- Improved search algorithm for all searchable data (emails, packages, activity, etc.)
- Added delivery location to mobile package notifications
- Added a warning when entering future purchase and sale dates into Scout
Bugfixes
- Fixed some issues with automated product matching
- Fixed market data on coplist share pages
- Fixed issue with chart timeframes
- Fixed Shopify discount handling
- Fixed BotBroker synced items from not being able to be deleted
- Fixed issue with updating item tags
- Fixed where dashboard charts failed to load
- Fixed Undefeated sizes handling in Email Hub
- Fixed Supreme tax handling in Email Hub
- Fixed where other incomes had values off by 1 cent
Bugfixes and Data Accuracy
June 25th, 2021
Another bustling week here at Scout! We've spent a good amount of time working on fixing up bugs, and also on improving the accuracy of the data we keep track of for our users.
Quality of Life Improvements
- Disabled browser autocomplete over the entire app, so that the browser doesn't try to overwrite user inputs
- Tags can now be deleted from expenses
Accuracy
- All temporal data is now stored in UTC, instead of in user-specific timezones.
- Validate that times and dates for things like purchase and sale dates are in reasonable ranges before allowing them to be added
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug where fees for GOAT were not applied to unrealized profit when first loading the page
- Fixed a bug where the dashboard charts showed Month-to-date data even when year-to-date was selected
- Fixed a bug where date inputs were parsed incorrectly, resulting in out-of-bounds dates
- Fixed a bug where users could not mark items as sold
- Fixed a bug where the dashboard's all-time chart showed too long a date range
- Fixed a bug where images from Hibbett emails were not shown correctly
- Fixed a bug where the dashboard chart failed to load
- Fixed a bug where market data was not shown as the user set it on inventory share pages
- Fixed a bug where products that stockx deleted were not properly reassociated
- Fixed a bug where expenses were not shown in the correct week in the dashboard
A HUGE new feature, plus bugfixes galore!
June 18th, 2021
It's been a busy week here at scout! We've been spending lots of time on a HUGE new feature (to be announced sometime in the next two weeks), but we've also done lots of bugfixes and Quality-of-life improvements!
Quality of Life Improvements
- Upgraded some of the videos on the front-end to higher resolution
- Added more indication for some required fields on the "Add Product" form
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug where dashboard expense chart failed to account for quantity
- Fixed a bug where batch marking items as listed failed
- Fixed a bug so that incomes now exported based on when they were marked sold, for better accuracy
- Fixed a bug such that the Product Enforcement Button is now functional
- Fixed a bug where StockX deleted items weren't to the up-to-date product
- Fixed a bug so products on the dashboard show up in the correct order, with those without purchase dates shown last.
- Fixed a bug that would send multiple iOS Notifications about packages
- Fixed a bug that would keep dashboard charts from loading
- Fixed multiple bugs that would cause emails not to import correctly as items
- Fixed a bug that would cause the dashboard to now inclusively show items that occurred at the beginning of the timestamp
- Fixed a bug that would prevent a user from deleting tags
- Fixed a bug that resets dashboard time range unintentionally
- Fixed a bug relating to the price of the UCLA Dunk & Nike Air Foamposite Pro Volt (2021) & Jordan 3 A Ma Maniere
- Fixed a bug preventing barcodes from being scanned through the mobile app
- Fixed sign in with apple
- Fixed a bug that would cause user
- Fixed a bug that caused sorting by most recent on the dashboard to not work correctly
- Fixed a bug that caused multiple products no not have images
- Fixed multiple bugs causing market prices to be shown in cents instead of dollars
- Fixed a bug where custom fee templates dont show up on already sold items
- Fixed bugs that caused multiple items to be off by one or more cents due to currency conversion errors
A few ease of use updates
August 18th, 2020
Hey 👋 in the past few days we've pushed three updates that streamlines a few operations on Scout. Firstly, you'll notice that when selecting multiple items there's a little popup that shows basic stats about your selected items/sales:
Next, you can now add to or create new Coplists when you're adding new items to your inventory:
Finally, you can set your Coplists to automatically hide sales if you only want to see inventory items & listings:
Have a great week!
Filtering & Inventory updates
July 22nd, 2020
We've spent the past few days simplifying some of the simple tasks of browsing inventory on Scout. You can now filter by sale/listing platform on your items. You can also select whether to view 30, 50, or 100 items per page. Along with that, we've pushed a visual update so you can see which Coplists your items are part of from the inventory & sales tab.
Currency & Fee updates
July 16th, 2020
We've just pushed a huge change for our non-US based users. Your currencies will now be calculated live, as opposed to the previous method of calculating based off of a saved USD value. You can also select whether or not you want platform (StockX, GOAT, FlightClub) fees to factor into your unrealized profit calculations.
Scout Releases
July 11th, 2020
We've just released Scout Releases, a brand new addition to Scout! View important releases from anywhere, add to your personal calendar, and view metrics of your profit per release. Check it out