THE GARDEN KEEPS GROWING
Our latest changes and earlier development milestones. The current experience opens retailers directly; earlier affiliate features are inactive.
MARY’S UPDATE NOTES
Get occasional emails when requested features are completed, useful tools are added, or the shopping experience improves.
LATEST IMPROVEMENTS
Mary’s Deals is back. Search and browse official retailer destinations without affiliate approval. Prices and availability should be checked with each retailer. Feedback helps us improve the experience; receipt points remain a nonredeemable pilot.
Shoppers can optionally use their general location or a ZIP code. Mary’s search now verifies real matching branches within 30 miles, calculates the nearest distance, and only displays a nearby label when store-location evidence was found. Changing or clearing location automatically refreshes active results.
The retailer menu now grows directly from Mary’s approved merchant catalog, with instant store search, A–Z browsing, comfortable incremental loading, and a protected commission-enabled path for every retailer.
Mary’s Deals can now securely collect the complete approved merchant list, match it to the retailer directory, favor commission-ready results, and refresh changed merchants automatically without exposing private affiliate credentials.
A new intent-aware matching foundation connects natural-language searches to product concepts, category relationships, brands, model patterns, and retailer specialties. Results now favor manufacturer-direct and specialty stores while filtering weak or unrelated matches.
Selecting Kohl’s—or any retailer in the directory—now opens that retailer’s official homepage through Mary’s commission-enabled affiliate gate instead of running another product search.
Mary now has a protected review queue for inspecting submitted receipts, recording one approval decision, leaving a shopper-facing note, and awarding auditable pilot points. Daily submission limits and review flags add another layer of protection.
Signed-in shoppers can now photograph or upload recent receipts, prevent duplicate submissions, and follow each receipt through a review queue. Points and gift-card redemption remain a clearly labeled pilot until verification and reward partners are ready.
The main search now explains that item names, product types, and brands produce the best results. Store shoppers get a separate retailer-directory shortcut.
Feedback submissions are delivered to Mary’s inbox, with Reply-To enabled when a visitor includes an email address and a database backup for reliability.
Navigation, search guidance, retailer categories, Deal Garden, featured deals, and feedback can all switch between English and Spanish.
Search results now prioritize relevant official retailer domains and explain why strongly matched results appear.
Visitors can save promising retailer deal pages, filter their garden, and sync saved offers between devices when signed in.
The retailer drawer organizes major stores by shopping category and connects searches to official retailer-owned destinations.