Email / push notification for new additions to the Stock Universe

[Justin (Big Boss)]

@Justin

Anyways, how did you all find out about the new additions? I think there should be an email or notification to notify users that new stocks have been added (or removed).

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[Freetrade_Team1 (Freetrade_Team)]

@Justin

I think there should be an email or notification to notify users that new stocks have been added (or removed).

Nice idea! I think some users might find that a bit spammy so once we have the layout with cards, maybe we should just have a dedicated ‘New’ section in the Discover tab to display stocks that we’ve added recently. What do you think?

[Nick]

@Freetrade_Team1

What do you think?

I think that’s a great idea

[Justin (Big Boss)]

That’s very sexy. I like it!

Didn’t think about the spamming.

[Jeff (Jeff puckering)]

Looks great!

[Andrewpclark (Andrew Clark)]

Was just on Twitter and saw that you’d added Aston Martin to your universe - I should definitely have a push alert when the Universe expands. Even opt in or opt out of that feature.

What other cheeky shares have you added???

[Freetrade_Team1 (Freetrade_Team)]

Hey Andrew! Justin beat you to making this suggestion yesterday I’m afraid so I’ve moved his idea to it’s own topic & moved your post over here. I hope that’s ok!

@Andrewpclark

What other cheeky shares have you added???

Aston Martin’s the only one so far but there’s a few more on the way

Maybe we could send an in-app notification via the live chat until we’ve got something more permanent set up?

[Andrewpclark (Andrew Clark)]

Agree re spamming but think there will be times you will want to push - Aston Martin was a bit special. Off to buy a single share for bragging rights as I don’t think they’ll make me much.

[HarryG (Harry)]

Can we have an email summary weekly with newly added shares? Or a weekly push ‘Look what we have added’ kind of thing?

[Freetrade_Team1 (Freetrade_Team)]

We’ll mention them in the #freetrade-chat:weekly-wraps if that works?

[HarryG (Harry)]

Yep great idea! An additional feature and I already read it so no spam problem. Push notification in time maybe, but again like a bulk process kind of thing?

[Wulfy]

Yes please add number of invites sent out as well as number of users now on boarded ie ones that have actioned their invites.

I read it weekly too

[DaveTMG]

Can I give a big thumbs down to the spammy push notification on ios that new stocks have been added? I want important notifications on my lock screen and I tend to disable notifications from apps that spam me.

[Freetrade_Team1 (Freetrade_Team)]

Thanks for this feedback Dave, until we can build something into the app, how would you prefer to be notified instead?

[RMIA]

I liked how I got the in app message & that works perfect for me, but I can understand for traders who dont frequently check the app this can be challenging. I guess an opt in/opt out push notification works best.

Currently through twitter and the community I believe freetrade have been very vocal about this but I am not sure if this only applies to the recent Uber/Lyft IPO …

[Freetrade_Team1 (Freetrade_Team)]

We haven’t sent push notifications for other stock additions but decided to because these stocks were something our customers have been asking for a lot.

[DaveTMG]

I got an email about it too, that is plenty.

Eventually some sort of notification granularity would be best, so I can set it to ‘important only’ and others can set it to tell them about every little change that might be interesting.