Price Book iPhone app Forum

Yes, I would like this functionality.

I think this would be a great addition. Also it would be great with the shopping list as well, it would increase the overall usefulness by allowing for communication between families of users.

How interested are people in having multiple devices be able to download price data from a single Price Book website account? Currently only one device can be associated with a Price Book website account. I'm interested in hearing how much interest there is for a feature like this.

Would people like to have multiple devices be able to download price data from a single Price Book website account?

Being able to build shopping lists per store based on cheapest items would be very welcome. I search the app store frequently for such an app. To keep it simple, I would just have a "show all items in list" to display items in the master list that are not the cheapest at the store visited.

Are you clicking on the videos link at

1) http://www.pricebook.aerende.com/user/frontend_... or
2) http://www.pricebook.aerende.com/user/videos ?

When you say "it doesn't load" are you referring to the video or the page?

I can load both of the pages above and I can start the first video on these pages.

Which browser are you using?

When I go to the video tutorial page it doesn't load. What am I doing wrong?

I think this would be a great addition. If we could scan the bar code and have the item added to our list then we could add the price info. Would save time and be so much easier.

I think it would be superb.

If importing data from the website stops in the middle or doesn't work this is usually caused by having single or double quotes in your data such as:

Albertson's

or

"Bread"

The Sqlite database on the iPhone can't handle single or double quotes. I've tried to remove single or double quotes from being entered in with the data, but I haven't been able to block all entry points.

Removing the single or double quotes should allow your data to download fine to your iPhone or iPod touch.

I fixed the registration problem. It was a bug on the website. Uploading data to the website should also work now too. If you are still having registration problems, please let me know.

Last edited: Tue, 01 Jun 2010, 08:28am by aerende

I deleted your account so you can try creating a new account.

If there are no transactions stored, then the Price Book on the device will say that there is no data to download. If it says there is no network connection available then your device cannot connect to the internet.

cannot download (possibly because there are no transactions stored). i get an error message to wait till the network connection is available.

I tried to register my device and it says there is already and email registered. Yep, that's me. registered online first just like instructions say then tried to register phone.

Cheapest definitely needs to be available information.But context like "Downtown" would be good too. The other price book app puts the lowest price in green text, higher prices in red, so you can tell at a glance if it is the best price or not. A drop down menu of the other prices/stores, that you could view to compare or click on to switch and see where it is less may be helpful but sounds rather complicated to me. I am of course referring to unit prices- actual price is useless in real price comparison.

A list of stores is definitely needed. I shop at about 6 different food stores in the course of a month. Closest is of little concern to me. I know where the stores are located.

When I go in a store I like referring to a list of items I "usually" get in that store. Being able to associate or "favorite" items with a particular store would be great.
I currently keep a separate list of "need from somewhere or anywhere" as well. This is especially for items I have no idea where they are found or where the best price might be. Obviously you would have to be able to add items with no price or store info. (Salt Peter for making smoke balls- still haven't found that one yet.)

I love the addition of an area context, perhaps even one where the store could have more than one? Like Southside and Eastside may both have a Dollar Tree? Examples I currently use are Town, Out of Town, Southside and Northside. I have lists for each and list for inside each individual store as well.

And here is my added dream request. It seems there should be some way to add items bought (checked off of an active list) onto a pantry inventory list. At the same token there should be someway to check off used items from that pantry list to make a shopping list. Perhaps the items checked off a shopping list could be exported to the pantry list, though it would be nice if there was a way to individually turn the feature on and off if you should decide you no longer want an item at all. Perhaps a field pantry- yes/no and then quantity on hand? Further dreaming..would be if the date items were purchased were automatically associated as well and you could sort them by date- so older stuff yo may have forgotten about get used better. I would just assume the older gets used first for purposes of reasonably maintaining a pantry inventory.

A bar code scanner would be an awesome addition though sadly I only have an i-touch and unless they add cameras to them in the next update I will be unable to use that great sounding feature.