TL;DR - email alerts are not enabled yet, they are pending cleaning up more kit data & matching more retailer URLs to products so alerts can be more accurate.

Current priorities for the site are:

- fixing bugs on the site & improving performance

- fixing incorrect kit data (this may include creating new backend tools to make this easier/faster)

- working through the backlog of unmatched product urls (this may include creating new backend tools to make this easier/faster)

- once kit data is more correct & we have more retailer URLs matched to kits, then we'll start work on in-stock/price email alerts

- adding more retailers

What is working (a short list):

- We're checking pricing & stock status at least 4 times a day across USD (26 retailers), CAD (13 retailers), AUD (10 retailers), and EUR (11 retailers)

- Wishlist (private and shared) "Cart Builder" function now shows shipping tiers for retailers (with an expandable section to see other shipping tiers & what order total would qualify) - test it here https://gunpla.deals/w/7u5jlu8hHPHBlQZ6UAsU-J4eTJZ4rdPjQE94ED0LEas

- Users with accounts can up or down vote retailer links to let us know if a product URL is matched to a kit incorrectly (super helpful!)

- Users with accounts can up or down vote currently unmatched product URLs that may belong to a kit (provides us with feedback to help grind through our backlog of product url's that need to be matched to kits)

- Content Creators (once their account is flagged on the backend) can add links to their videos or reviews for kits to the related URLs section

- Retailers (once their account is flagged on the backend) can add/edit their product links for kits.

What needs work (a short list):

-kit data has errors, including but not limited to: incorrect or missing identifiers, wrong series assigned, no grade assigned, wrong grade or scale, and bad kit names

-product url to kit match errors: some kits had the wrong identifiers associated with them, which led to the wrong product URLs getting associated with those kits

-unmatched product urls: either due to errors in identifiers associated with kits on our side, or retailers not providing identifiers for their kits on their side, there's currently a LOT of product url's (~30,000, down from 200,000 before better product filtering was put in place) that need to be reviewed and either assigned to a kit or put on the ignore list as something we're not going to track prices for.

-price history charts don't provide much useful information currently

Possible future features (not saying all of these will happen, but they're being considered vs the amount of effort/maintenance required):

-3rd party decal price/stock tracking

-3rd party kit price/stock tracking

-recommendations system (i.e. if you're looking at a HG WfM Aerial kit, the kit page would show links to compatible decal sets and/or WfM themed action bases)

-tag based search filters (such as by pilot, allegiance, in-universe manufacturer and mechanical designer. also possibly something based on primary/secondary kit colors and/or special coatings/translucent/transparent parts)

-discord price information bot

-more retailer tools (edit their own promo codes, descriptions & shipping tier information)

-more content creator tools (such as allowing them to pass through their affiliate codes to retailers)

definite future features (sorry!):

- Something to generate an income to offset the expenses, as the site costs money to maintain (server hosting, domain name, bulk mail service for price/stock alerts, etc), and hours of my time to keep running smoothly. if there's sufficient patreon/ko-fi support to cover expenses & something resembling a wage to offset my hours, then i avoid having to resort to ads and affiliate links. as it says on the cart builder, if the site saved you money, considering donating or supporting.