SmartViner
SmartViner user guide

Everything SmartViner can do

Feature-by-feature walkthroughs: set it up, tune it, and get the most out of Amazon Vine, in the browser and on your phone. Jump to any feature from the menu. Updated for extension 0.9.25 and apps 1.0.12.

Getting started

Signing in

SmartViner is a dashboard that layers on top of your Amazon Vine session. You sign in once with a SmartViner account; it reads your Vine orders and reviews through the Amazon login you already have in the browser (or, on the phone, the one you make inside the app). Your Amazon password is never typed into SmartViner.

How to use

  1. Open the SmartViner dashboard (the toolbar icon, or any Vine page with the extension on). If you are signed out you see the Log in card.
  2. Enter your Email and Password, then Log in. No account yet? Sign up takes a name, email and password.
  3. Make sure you are logged into Amazon Vine in the same browser: Orders, Reviews and the feed use that session.
  4. First run shows a short guided tour and a setup checklist (notifications permission, first Alert column). Both can be re-opened from Settings.

Options & settings

  • Remember me keeps you signed in for about a month of sliding activity; one sign-in covers the standalone dashboard, the dashboard on Amazon pages and Light mode.
  • Forgot password? emails a reset link on smartviner.com that opens the dashboard on desktop and the app on a phone.

Tip · If you use the phone app as well, sign in there with the same SmartViner account; the app asks for your Amazon login separately, inside its own secure browser view.

The Log in card.
The Log in card.

Where SmartViner runs: Full, Light, Off and the phone

SmartViner has three ways to sit on Amazon Vine, chosen from the SmartViner switch in Amazon’s header, plus the phone apps.

Options & settings

  • Full — the dashboard replaces the Vine page: columns, alerts, chat, everything in this guide.
  • Light — Amazon’s own Vine page stays, and SmartViner adds an Alerts panel, tile sizing and navigation, the Fast order button and its checkout preferences, and the product and review dialogs. Good on small screens or when you want the plain page with alerts.
  • Off — Amazon as if the extension were not installed; the switch stays so you can come back.
  • Standalone dashboard — the same Full dashboard on its own extension page (the toolbar icon), useful when you keep Vine in another tab.
  • iPhone and Android apps — the same columns, alerts and filters, phone notifications for new items, chat, orders and reviews, a Fast order button and the AI Shopper settings. The apps read Vine themselves through an in-app Amazon sign-in and refresh in the background.

Tip · Your columns, filters and settings are one account-wide board: change them on the phone and the browser follows, and the other way round.

Full mode: the dashboard on the Vine page.
Full mode: the dashboard on the Vine page.
Light mode: Amazon’s page with the SmartViner Alerts panel.
Light mode: Amazon’s page with the SmartViner Alerts panel.

The Dashboard feed

The Dashboard, boards & columns

The Dashboard is a board of feed columns. Each column is an independent live feed from one source. Columns fill top-to-bottom and wrap; you can keep several boards (dashboards) and switch between them from the top bar.

How to use

  1. Open Dashboard from the sidebar (or the SmartViner switch on a Vine page → Full).
  2. The sticky toolbar holds board-wide controls: Add column, Manage columns, Refresh all, the Auto-pagination switch, session chips, Sound/Muted, the Stop crane and the board picker.
  3. Scroll the board with the on-screen arrows, the mouse wheel, or [ / ]. Press ? for the keyboard-shortcuts overlay.
  4. Resize a column by dragging its right edge (width) or bottom edge (height). Two columns stacked in one lane share the lane: drag the divider between them.

Tip · Column layout auto-saves to your account and syncs to every device. While you are away the tab title counts new items (“+12 · SmartViner”).

Tip · A pinned column (📌 from its menu) stays on screen while the rest of the board scrolls.

The board with several columns and the top toolbar.
The board with several columns and the top toolbar.

Column types

Every column has a type that decides where its items come from, shown as a coloured badge in the header. Four map to Amazon Vine queues; the rest are SmartViner features.

Options & settings

  • RFY — Recommended for You (Vine’s personal queue). Can keep a few days of history so items that rotated out are still visible, with day dividers.
  • AFA — Available for All.
  • AI — Additional Items (the badge means the queue, unrelated to the AI Shopper). Can be narrowed to one Amazon category.
  • Search — a live keyword search on Vine.
  • Scan — one column that rotates through a list of keywords, live on Vine, so ten searches do not need ten columns.
  • Explore (DB) — searches SmartViner’s own catalogue of every product ever seen, not a live Amazon fetch.
  • For You — recent items ranked by your taste; hearts teach it, “Not for me” tunes it.
  • ALERT — a real-time feed of items nobody had seen before, from every member scanning your marketplace. The column that drives notifications, webhooks and the AI Shopper.
  • Gone — items that failed at checkout in the last days (sold out, left the enrollment), newest first.
  • Chat — your marketplace’s community room, as a column.
  • Likes and Ordered — what you hearted, and what you ordered.

Tip · ALERT, Chat, Likes and Ordered have nothing to page through, so Refresh all and auto-pagination skip them.

The column types at a glance.
The column types at a glance.

Add, clone, reorder, hide & remove columns

Columns are managed from the board: add by type, duplicate with all settings, drag to reorder, hide or pause in bulk, or delete.

How to use

  1. Add: Add column → pick a type. Search and Scan ask for their keywords first.
  2. Manage columns: the popup lists every column on the board with a filter box; reorder by drag, and pause or hide several at once. Hidden columns keep collecting; they just do not take space.
  3. Clone: column menu (⋯) → Clone (D) copies filters, categories, size and the last items.
  4. Start fresh: menu → hides everything the column has now and shows only what arrives from this moment; Unhide all brings it back.
  5. Tags: give columns tags and filter the board by tag from the chip bar.
  6. Remove: menu → Delete column.

Tip · Every change auto-saves; there is no save button. Boards and columns are the same on the phone apps.

Column settings

Each column’s configuration lives in Column settings (menu ⋯ → Settings, or ,). Changes apply live. The dialog has tabs:

Options & settings

  • Display — grid or line layout, items per row, title lines, image size, accent colour (swatch or any hex), plus a live preview of the tile as you change things.
  • Behavior — Collecting (auto-refresh interval, auto-paginate cadence and max page, jump to page 1 on new items), RFY history days, Ordering (Fast order button, one-click), Notifications (phone), Comfort (pause on mouse activity, sound on new items).
  • Filters — the column’s allow/hide rules, keywords or expressions (next section).
  • Highlight — rules that colour, blur or chime for matching items without hiding anything else.
  • Webhooks — which of your Discord/Slack webhooks this column feeds.
  • AI Shopper — on Alert columns: the autopilot’s criteria and limits.

Tip · Quick tile-size tweaks without opening settings: keys 1–9, +/-, or drag the column’s edges.

Column settings: the Display tab with the live preview.
Column settings: the Display tab with the live preview.

Filtering & tuning

Category filter

For queues that expose Amazon categories, a two-level category / subcategory dropdown narrows the column to one category tree. It only appears when the column has category data.

How to use

  1. Below the column header, open the first dropdown (“All Categories”) and pick a parent.
  2. A second dropdown appears (“All Subcategories”); pick a child to narrow further.
  3. Use Clear category / Clear subcategory to reset.

Tip · This refetches from Amazon (server-side narrowing), unlike filter rules, which hide items in the browser. A category-narrowed AI column is a common way to watch one part of the queue closely.

Filter rules: keywords, expressions, ETV and price

Per-column Filter rules hide or allow items. A rule is either Hide (deny) or Allow (only show matches), written as keyword chips, a boolean expression, or a regular expression, and it can test numbers: etv < 5, etv = 0, retail > 100.

How to use

  1. Open Column settings → Filters.
  2. Click Add rule (or a starter chip like “Hide refurbished”).
  3. Set Hide / Allow, then choose the view: Chips (type words), Expression (AND / OR / NOT, parentheses, “quoted phrases”, etv and retail comparisons) or Regex.
  4. Watch the live “matches N of M” count; Run preview applies the rules to recent products and shows Would show / Would hide.
  5. Optional: click AI, describe what you want in plain words, and add the rules it proposes.

Options & settings

  • Single words match on word boundaries (“man” ≠ “manual”); quoted phrases match as substrings; regex is case-insensitive.
  • An account-wide filter set (Settings → Filters) applies on top of every column and to phone notifications.
  • A numeric rule needs the number: an item whose ETV is not known yet does not match etv = 0 until the ETV arrives, seconds later.

Tip · A filtered column shows an “N hidden” chip; Show hidden reveals them without changing the rules. The same rules run on the phone apps.

An AI-generated Allow rule (Expression view) with a live preview of what would show vs hide.
An AI-generated Allow rule (Expression view) with a live preview of what would show vs hide.

Highlight rules

Highlight rules are filter rules that mark instead of hide: a matching tile gets a colour, its own chime, or a blur (for things you would rather not see in full). Column rules live in Column settings → Highlight; account-wide ones in Settings → Highlight.

Options & settings

  • Colour — the tile’s border and badge.
  • Sound — a different chime for these items, so a brand you wait for sounds different from the rest.
  • Blur — the image is blurred until you hover.

Tip · The first matching rule wins for colour and sound, so put the most specific rule first.

Auto-refresh, auto-pagination & the crowd

Columns refresh and page themselves so the board keeps collecting. Every page any member loads feeds the shared catalogue and the Alert columns of everyone on that marketplace, so scanning helps the whole community, and the scheduler spreads members over the pages where finds are landing.

Options & settings

  • Auto-refresh (per column) re-fetches page 1 every N seconds (a range gives it a random cadence). It keeps running when the tab is in the background.
  • Auto-paginate (per column) walks the pages at its own cadence; Max page 0 = all pages. “Jump to page 1 on new items” resets the walk when something new lands.
  • Auto-pagination (board switch) cycles all paging columns on a shared, staggered schedule and follows the crowd’s page heat: pages where new items appeared recently are visited more often.
  • Background scanning — with no dashboard tab open at all, the extension still fetches one page of the Additional Items queue every 30 s (page 1 every fourth time, otherwise the hot pages). On by default; the switch is in the Auto-pagination panel. Chrome and Edge only.

Tip · If you open several dashboard tabs, one of them is the leader that crawls; the others only display. Nothing is doubled.

Tip · The Stop crane in the toolbar pauses every Amazon fetch at once (refresh, pagination, background scanning, enrichment) until you resume.

Tip · Your Impact card (Settings → Account) shows your share of the marketplace’s scanning today, your streak and badges.

Throttle protection & the human check

When Amazon starts rate-limiting (HTTP 429/503, a 404 storm, a “dog” page) the pager stops, pauses for a growing cooldown, then resumes gently. If Amazon shows its Continue shopping human check, SmartViner opens that tab for you, waits, and resumes after you click it.

Options & settings

  • The pause escalates on each hit: 30s → 1m → 2m → 4m → 8m → 15m (capped), and steps back down after clean loads.
  • A human check never pulls the Stop crane; the dashboard resumes on its own within 15 minutes if you do not get to it.

Tip · Nothing to configure. You will see a toast “Amazon is throttling — pausing …” and, for the human check, a highlighted tab.

Route the feed through a proxy

If Amazon rate-limits or blocks your IP, SmartViner can route just the Vine feed fetches through your own rotating residential proxy, so blocked feeds get a fresh IP. Images and every other site stay direct, and your normal browsing is untouched.

How to use

  1. Open Settings → Network.
  2. Enter your proxy Endpoint (host : port); it must be IP-whitelisted.
  3. Toggle Route Vine feed through proxy on.

Tip · Use a sticky-session endpoint so your normal browsing keeps one IP. Advanced and optional; most members never need it.

Settings → Network: the proxy endpoint and toggle.
Settings → Network: the proxy endpoint and toggle.

Combine variants

An account-wide display option that collapses “variant spam” (the same product in thirty designs or sizes) into a single tile, so a real product is not buried. Display-only; nothing is deleted. On by default.

How to use

  1. Toggle it in Settings → General → Combine variants; a column can override it in its own settings.
  2. A collapsed group shows a ringed tile with a ▦ N pill (“N designs — click to pick one”).
  3. Click the group to open the design picker, then any design to open its product.

Tip · Grouping is conservative: it needs a real brand plus a shared category/size signature and several near-identical members, so unrelated items never merge.

A collapsed variant group with the ▦ count pill and picker.
A collapsed variant group with the ▦ count pill and picker.

Freshness strip

A thin row of small cells between a column’s items and its pager, one cell per page, coloured green by how recently that page last produced fresh items. The green fades over about two hours, so you can see where new stuff just landed and jump to it.

How to use

  1. In any multi-page column, look just above the pager for the strip of small squares.
  2. Bright green = fresh very recently; pale = a while ago; grey = old or never. The current page has a blue ring.
  3. Click any cell to jump to that page.

Tip · It remembers across reloads and keeps the current page centred.

The freshness strip above the pager.
The freshness strip above the pager.

Alerts & notifications

Alert columns

An Alert column is a live feed of items the crowd has never seen before, pushed to you the second any member’s scan finds one, on your marketplace. It is where notifications, webhooks, Fast order and the AI Shopper start. Most members run several, each with its own filters: brands they want, a $0-ETV column, a category.

How to use

  1. Add an Alert column and give it filter rules; without rules it shows every discovery.
  2. New items arrive at the top with a green ring that fades with age. The tile fills in as details are read: ETV, then the Amazon price and deal, then the gallery.
  3. Items that are gone (sold out, ordered by someone else) leave the column a few minutes after the crowd confirms it; they come back only if they reappear on Vine.
  4. The Pause control (and pause-on-hover) holds new arrivals while you browse; they land when you resume.

Tip · Alerts are sent to Vine members only; a new account gets three days of grace before Vine verification is required for crowd data.

Notifications: desktop, sound, phone

Each new item in a visible Alert column can pop a browser notification, chime, and reach your phone. Settings → Notifications holds the master switches; the column decides what it notifies about through its filters.

Options & settings

  • Desktop notifications — browser popups for new alert items; click one and the dashboard opens that item.
  • Sound — per column (Behavior → Comfort), with a sound picker in the column’s 🔔 menu, including your own uploaded sounds; the toolbar Muted switch silences everything.
  • Phone notifications — with the app installed, new items matching your filtered columns are pushed to the phone, with the picture. Each column can switch its phone notifications off (Behavior → Notifications) while staying on the board.
  • Drops — a push when your marketplace’s queue starts filling unusually fast, and when the drop ends.
  • Chat and direct messages — desktop and phone toggles in Settings → Notifications.

Tip · Notification tap on the phone opens the item; if it needs a variation choice, the product page is where the choice is made. Notifications respect your account-wide filters too.

Webhooks: Discord & Slack

Send alert items to your own Discord or Slack channel. A webhook has a name, the channel URL, an expression filter (the same language as filter rules, e.g. etv < 5 AND NOT "case"), and can be attached to specific columns.

How to use

  1. Settings → Webhooks → Add: paste the channel’s webhook URL, name it, write the filter.
  2. Use Send test to see the card in your channel.
  3. In a column’s settings → Webhooks, choose which webhooks that column feeds. Clone a webhook to make a variant with a different filter.

Tip · A webhook that keeps failing is paused automatically and shows the failure count; fix the URL and it resumes.

Fast order

A per-column button that places the Vine order for an item in one go: the Vine order call, then Amazon’s checkout in a hidden frame, with the “Place your order” click done for you. It is the fastest way to take a hot item by hand, and it is what the AI Shopper uses.

How to use

  1. Turn it on in Column settings → Behavior → Ordering. Tiles in that column show ⚡.
  2. Click ⚡ once to arm, again to order (or set Order with one click); the tile shows the outcome, and the item moves to your Ordered column.
  3. For an item with variations, open the product and pick the variation; Fast order cannot choose for you.

Options & settings

  • Before submitting it checks: the item is still available, the ETV is known and within your tier, your default address, and that Amazon’s Order total is $0; anything else stops with a reason and nothing is placed.
  • In Light mode the button sits on Amazon’s own tiles, with the checkout preferences under it.

Tip · A stopped order is never half-placed: the checkout either finishes on Amazon’s side or is abandoned before the last click. If Amazon asks for a page we cannot read, the normal checkout overlay opens for you to finish.

Buying & AI

Product page & checkout

The product popup that opens when you click a tile. It shows the gallery and videos, the bullets, the ETV and the Amazon price and deal, Ask AI chips for quick questions about the listing, hearts and hide, and the variant picker that auto-selects your size from your profile. From there you run the Vine checkout through a confirmation overlay where you click Amazon’s own “Place your order”.

How to use

  1. Click a tile; use ◀ ▶ or ←/→ to move to the previous/next item.
  2. If the product has variations, pick from Available options (unavailable combinations are struck through).
  3. Confirm Ship to at the bottom; checkout is disabled until an address is set.
  4. Click Checkout; when Amazon needs the interactive step, the overlay opens badged Order not placed yet.
  5. Review Amazon’s page, then I placed the order, Open in new tab, or Cancel to bail out safely.

Options & settings

  • Default size (Settings → General, e.g. “M”, “9”, “32W x 30L”) — the picker auto-selects the matching variant, keeping the colour where possible; with no match it takes the middle size, never XS/XXL.
  • Estimated tax rate (Settings → General) — shows the tax you will owe next to each ETV.
  • Ask AI — suggested questions for this listing, answered from the listing text; the answers are not stored.

Tip · Nothing is ordered until Amazon’s “Place your order”; Cancel always aborts safely. Silver members are stopped from ordering above the marketplace’s high-value threshold; the check runs again at checkout.

The product popup with the variant picker that auto-picks your size.
The product popup with the variant picker that auto-picks your size.

AI Shopper

AI Shopper is off by default; nothing happens until you switch it on for a column. It is a per-column autopilot on Alert columns: every item that passes the column’s filters is judged against criteria you write in plain words, and when the model says “order” with enough confidence, Fast order places the Vine order. It respects a daily cap, a shop window, an ETV limit, a confidence threshold, and keeps a full Decision log.

How to use

  1. Open an Alert column’s settings → the AI Shopper tab, and switch it on.
  2. Describe what to order (and what to refuse) in plain words. Be specific: brands, categories, uses, and what to skip.
  3. Set the limits: Max ETV (switch it on and set the limit; 0 means free items only), Daily cap, the Shop window (when the shopper is allowed to run, on a 24-hour slider), and the confidence threshold.
  4. Click Check my setup: it lists problems (vague criteria, a price rule the shopper cannot prove yet, a window that is empty) and offers a rewritten wording.
  5. Leave Dry run on and read the Decision log for a day; when the decisions look right, turn Dry run off.

Options & settings

  • Waiting for facts — an item is judged once the facts the criteria need are in: the ETV (always, when Max ETV is on) and the Amazon price when your criteria mention price. The column shows “Waiting for ETV / price” while it waits.
  • Confidence threshold (50–95%, default 70%): the model must answer “order” at or above it.
  • Daily cap (default 1) counts orders per column per day, on the server, so two devices cannot both slip under it.
  • Before the order is submitted every limit is checked again with the live ETV from Vine; if anything changed (shopper switched off, cap reached, ETV over the limit, criteria edited) the order stops.

Tip · ⚠️ With Dry run off an approved item is ordered end-to-end with no click. Start with Dry run, a cap of 1 and a narrow criteria text. Sized items use your default size; one automatic order runs at a time. The same settings and log are in the phone apps.

The AI Shopper tab: criteria, limits, shop window, confidence and Dry run.
The AI Shopper tab: criteria, limits, shop window, confidence and Dry run.
Every item passes the limits before the model is asked, and again before the order.
Every item passes the limits before the model is asked, and again before the order.

AI Shopper Decision log

The audit view for everything the AI Shopper did: KPI tiles plus grouped, timestamped rows for what was ordered, is in progress, failed, was skipped by the model with its reason, or stopped by a limit before the model was asked.

How to use

  1. Click AI Shopper in the sidebar.
  2. Pick a window: 24h / 3d / 7d / 30d.
  3. Read the KPIs: Ordered, In progress, Errored, Skipped, Gated, and the total ETV ordered.
  4. Open a row for the model’s reasoning; rate a decision 👍/👎 to teach it (Settings → “Use my order history” lets it learn from your past orders too).

Tip · “In progress — verify on Amazon” is the one bucket that needs your eyes. Many “gated: daily cap” rows mean the cap is the limit, not the criteria.

KPI tiles plus Ordered and Gated rows.
KPI tiles plus Ordered and Gated rows.

AI Reviewer

Turns your own honest experience into a guideline-compliant Vine review in your voice, then prefills it into Amazon’s form so you only press Submit. It writes to Amazon’s review Ideas when the listing has them, uses the site’s spelling (“colour” on the UK site), and converts photos to JPEG for you.

How to use

  1. On Reviews, click Write with AI on an awaiting item (opens with its title, ASIN and image).
  2. 1. Product — confirm the title; optionally paste the listing details.
  3. 2. Your experience — the star rating (required), what you liked and disliked, Tone and Length.
  4. 3. Photos & video — drop files (converted to JPEG, drag to set the order).
  5. Generate review, edit inline, then Prefill on Amazon → just hit Submit. After you submit, the item moves to the Submitted tab by itself.

Options & settings

  • Tone — Balanced / Enthusiastic / Critical / Concise. Length — Short / Medium / Long.
  • Photos — up to 12; rotate, flip, remove, reorder; HEIC/HEIF are converted (a green “JPEG ✓” badge).
  • Your voice — with the AI persona on (Settings → Account), the reviewer writes the way your past reviews read.

Tip · The prefill never submits; you always read and press Amazon’s Submit. Photo order matters: drag the tiles before prefilling.

A generated draft with photo tiles and the Prefill button.
A generated draft with photo tiles and the Prefill button.

AI persona: your voice and taste

Optional and off by default. When on, SmartViner builds a profile from your own reviews (and, if you choose, Amazon’s “About you” memory page) so the AI Reviewer writes like you and the AI Shopper and For You understand what you like. Everything stays in your account and can be removed in one click.

How to use

  1. Settings → Account → AI persona → switch on. The profile builds once at least three of your reviews are synced (Settings → Sync → Review text).
  2. Optionally Import Amazon “About you”: a preview shows what would be used; sensitive lines are filtered out and anything you remove stays removed on re-import.
  3. Remove imported or switch the persona off to forget it; your review-learned voice and the import are separate.

Tip · Review text is read from your own Vine review pages at a gentle pace (a couple of pages every half hour), only while the dashboard is open and only if you opt in.

Discovery

24-Hour Recap

A personalised “what’s new today” feed. It ranks every product that appeared in the last 24 hours by how closely it matches your taste, learned from your order history, and scores each with a match %, flagged as bought or missed.

How to use

  1. Click 24h Recap in the sidebar.
  2. Read the stats line: “N matches · N new items scanned · taste from N orders”.
  3. Each tile shows a purple match % badge, a bought/missed pill, an added-ago badge, title, price and queue tag.
  4. Use Best match / Newest to re-sort; category chips narrow it.

Tip · It learns from your last few hundred orders; only items scoring 50% or more appear, so quiet days can be short. It is pre-built for active members, so it opens instantly.

Tip · A “bought” tile means you ordered any member of that variation family. Adult items are always filtered out.

The Recap with match-% badges, sort toggle and category chips.
The Recap with match-% badges, sort toggle and category chips.

Smart categories

SmartViner tags every product with a category (Home & Kitchen, Phone Accessories, …) using its own semantic model over the whole catalogue: no manual tagging. In the Recap and Explore these become clickable filter chips.

How to use

  1. Open 24h Recap; if items are tagged, a chip row appears under the header.
  2. Click a chip to filter; click it again (or All) to clear. Combines with sort and paging.

Tip · Chips only show categories present in the current list, so they change day to day. These are SmartViner’s tags, distinct from Amazon’s category filter inside a column.

The Recap category chips with counts, one selected.
The Recap category chips with counts, one selected.

Analytics: drops, queue size, product heatmap

The Analytics page shows when things happen on your marketplace: a drops heatmap of new products by day and hour in your timezone, the queue size over time for each Vine queue, and the live drop status (is the queue filling faster than usual right now).

How to use

  1. Open Analytics from the sidebar (the same charts are in the Stats popup on the toolbar and on the phone).
  2. Pick a marketplace and a range; hover a cell or a point for the numbers, click a heatmap cell to see what landed in that hour.

Tip · Drops on your marketplace also arrive as a phone notification and are announced in the community Discord. A “drop” is measured on the queue size itself, not on who happens to be scanning.

Yearly recap

Your Vine year at a glance: orders and ETV by month, categories you lean on, your best finds, review pace, and a share card. Built from your synced orders and reviews.

How to use

  1. Sidebar → Recap (yearly). Sync your orders first so the numbers are complete.

Explore & Scan

Two ways to search. Explore (DB) searches SmartViner’s catalogue of everything ever seen on your marketplace, with categories, ETV filters and sorting, and tells you whether an item is currently on Vine. Scan is a live Vine search that rotates through your list of keywords.

How to use

  1. Add an Explore column for catalogue research (what tends to show up, what a brand’s items are worth), or a Scan column with a keyword list for live hunting.
  2. A Scan column’s keywords live in its settings (Scan keywords); it fetches one keyword per cycle, then the next.

Tip · If you already have several Search columns, the board offers to consolidate them into one Scan column.

Your workflow

Orders

A searchable list of your Vine orders. SmartViner reads your Amazon orders page in the background while the dashboard is open and keeps them in your account, so you can search across all of them, tag them, and see the ETV and estimated tax next to each. Orders placed by the AI Shopper or Fast order carry a badge.

How to use

  1. Open Orders; the status pill cycles “Scanning…” → “Syncing…” → Up to date (Settings → Sync controls what runs in the background).
  2. Search by title, ASIN or order id across every synced order.
  3. Add tags to an order (gift, resale, keep…) and filter by tag; tags are shared with Reviews and the apps.
  4. Click a title or Order details to open it on Amazon.

Tip · The phone apps sync orders on their own, so app-only members get the same list.

Orders with the “Up to date” pill, counters, AI badge and ETV chip.
Orders with the “Up to date” pill, counters, AI badge and ETV chip.

Reviews

Your Vine review queue in three tabs: Awaiting review, Submitted (sent to Amazon, not processed yet) and Completed, each with Amazon’s quality score where it has one. Jump to Amazon’s form or draft with AI without leaving SmartViner.

How to use

  1. Open Reviews (it opens on Awaiting review; the sidebar bubble counts them).
  2. For an awaiting item: Write with AI or Write review (Amazon’s form). When you press Amazon’s Submit on a form SmartViner filled, the item moves to Submitted by itself; Mark as submitted does the same by hand, Move back undoes it.
  3. For a completed item: Edit review / View review; filter by quality score or tag.

Tip · Submitted items stay there until Amazon processes them, which can take hours or days; the bubble count goes down as soon as you submit.

Awaiting review with Write with AI and Write review.
Awaiting review with Write with AI and Write review.

Vine account notices

Two things SmartViner surfaces from your Vine account page so you do not miss them: the at-risk banner when Amazon warns that your account may be closed for low review completion, and the evaluation notice when a tier evaluation is in progress, with the end date.

How to use

  1. Both appear automatically: the at-risk banner pins to the top of every Amazon page; the evaluation notice shows above the dashboard header and in the apps.
  2. Click Vine account → to read Amazon’s wording; clearing your awaiting reviews clears the risk banner on the next check.

Tip · The at-risk banner has no dismiss button by design. The evaluation notice can be dismissed per wording.

Your contribution, streaks & referrals

Every page your dashboard scans feeds alerts for everyone on your marketplace. The Impact card (Settings → Account) shows your share of today’s scanning, pages crawled, items you found first, details parsed, a day streak (a missed day is forgiven once a week) and badges. Invite a Vine friend gives you both 30 days of Pro once they are verified and active.

How to use

  1. Settings → Account → Your contribution for the numbers; Badges below it.
  2. Invite a Vine friend → copy your link. Pro days land after the friend verifies their Vine account and is active for three days (up to twelve invites a year).

Community

Community chat

Each marketplace has one room, shared by the members there: as a Chat column on the board, in the apps, and mirrored to the SmartViner Discord. Ask about an item, warn about a seller, celebrate a find.

Options & settings

  • @mentions with autocomplete, replies with a quote, reactions, up to three photos per message (converted to JPEG, kept 90 days), polls, and ✓✓ read receipts.
  • A typing indicator, a chat nickname (Settings → Account), and a PRO badge next to subscribers.
  • Notifications for chat, mentions and direct messages have their own switches (Settings → Notifications), desktop and phone separately.

Tip · Share an item into the chat from its product page; it renders as a card with the link. Admins can remove a message; you can remove your own.

Messages

Direct messages with the SmartViner team: answers to your tickets, announcements, and anything the admin sends you. Unread messages show as a badge on the sidebar and, if you allow it, a phone notification.

How to use

  1. Sidebar → Messages. Reply in the thread; the team sees it in their inbox.

Help desk

Report a bug or propose a feature from inside SmartViner. Tickets have a type (bug / feature), a status you can follow (Open, In progress, Done, Declined), comments in both directions, attachments, and votes so the most wanted features rise.

How to use

  1. Sidebar → Help → New ticket: pick the type, describe it, attach a screenshot if it helps.
  2. Vote on other members’ tickets; you get a message when yours changes status or gets a reply.

Tip · Tickets are read in the order they come in, and most bugs are fixed in the next release; the reply says which version.

The Help desk with a ticket thread.
The Help desk with a ticket thread.

Discord

The SmartViner Discord carries a per-country alerts channel (every public discovery, with its value once known), the marketplace chat rooms, drop announcements and the changelog. Link your Discord account to get the Pro role and badge there.

How to use

  1. Settings → Account → Discord Pro badge → connect.
  2. Share any item to a Discord channel of yours from the product page (Share).

Glossary

Vine and SmartViner terms in one place (ETV, RFY, AFA, tier, evaluation, tombstone, drop…), kept up to date by the team. Sidebar → Glossary.

Account & privacy

Settings

The Settings screen (account menu → Account settings) is organised in tabs:

Options & settings

  • General — language (12 languages), Combine variants, Hide NSFW items, Default size, Estimated tax rate, auto-refresh defaults.
  • Notifications — the master switch, desktop, phone, chat, direct messages and drop notifications, each on its own.
  • Theme — light, dark, or one of the built-in themes; the Theme Studio for your own (next section).
  • Filters and Highlight — account-wide rules applied to every column and to notifications.
  • Webhooks — your Discord/Slack endpoints.
  • Network — the optional proxy.
  • Sync — what runs in the background while the dashboard is open: orders, reviews, review text (for the persona).
  • Account — your Vine account details (status, marketplace, tier, evaluation), the Impact card, referrals, AI persona, Discord, subscription, sign out and delete account.

Tip · Display settings apply immediately; the rest save on change and sync to your other devices.

Settings: the Account tab.
Settings: the Account tab.

Themes & Theme Studio

Pick a theme or build your own: accent colour, surfaces, text, per-column accents, a wallpaper (image or gradient), and how much the tiles glow. Themes are stored as a small record you can share as a code and paste on another device or send to a friend.

How to use

  1. Settings → Theme: pick one of the built-in light or dark themes, or Theme Studio to make your own.
  2. Share code exports it; Import takes a code, and also an UltraViner theme file if you are moving over.

Tip · Every theme is checked for readable contrast in popups, chips and lists, in both light and dark modes.

Pro

During the beta every feature is free for everyone. Subscriptions are sold in the phone apps (App Store and Google Play); a Pro subscriber gets the PRO badge on the logo, in chat and on Discord. Referral and gifted Pro days are banked and start when the beta ends.

How to use

  1. In the app: Account → Pro → Subscribe. The subscription covers the extension and both apps on the same SmartViner account.
  2. Manage or cancel it in the store’s subscriptions screen; SmartViner picks up the change.

Tip · Members who subscribe at the founder price keep it for as long as they stay subscribed.

Performance telemetry

A small gauge at the bottom of the sidebar shows the tab’s JavaScript memory. Click it for the live Telemetry panel, a diagnostics tool for spotting slowdowns during long sessions.

Options & settings

  • Chip colour = health: grey OK, amber ≥80%, red and pulsing ≥92%.
  • The panel shows memory, phase, long tasks, stalls, DOM nodes and recent blocks.

Tip · If memory gets near the limit, SmartViner shows a countdown and reloads the tab to stay healthy. The chip is a trend indicator, not the tab’s full footprint.

The memory chip with the Telemetry panel open.
The memory chip with the Telemetry panel open.

Privacy & your data

SmartViner never stores your Amazon password and works only on Amazon Vine and smartviner.com. Your settings, orders and reviews live in your SmartViner account to power the feed, the recap and the AI features; the AI persona and the About-you import are opt-in and removable. Delete account (Settings → Account) removes everything.

How to use

  1. Read the full policy at smartviner.com/privacy.

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