The Wishabi Mission: To give Canadians the best tools to make informed shopping decisions

What is Wishabi?

Wishabi is a new online shopping engine designed to make shopping easy for Canadians. Wishabi gives Canadians advanced technologies to make informed shopping decisions such as:

Intelligent Pricing Analysis - Cutting through the marketing and pricing games of retailers can be difficult. Wishabi allows users to see whether to buy or hold, and predict pricing for the future. Users can see statistical trends, true market prices and price fluctuations. With Wishabi's intelligent pricing services, users will never have to guess again whether a deal is good or not.

Cross border shopping - With fluctuating exchange rates, cross border fees, duties and shipping, purchasing across the border can be a frustrating experience. Wishabi’s cross border shopping system automatically calculates all hidden fees such as brokerage, duties, exchange rate and shipping; allowing users to easily see the pricing on both sides of the border and make informed purchase decisions. Gone are the days of hidden fees from a cross-border purchase.

Merchant Value Ranking - Consumers want to buy from merchants they trust. How well do they stack up against each other? Wishabi’s secret shopping team helps take the guesswork out of choosing a good merchant. Our team performs transactions and simulates issues such as returns and technical support calls, providing merchant ratings on over 42 different metrics. Do merchants really have a great return policy or is it fluff? How about their price protection? Using Wishabi’s merchant ranking system, users can quickly see how good a Merchant is.

Social Shopping - There’s nothing better than getting the community to shop for you. Leveraging an open shopping platform, Wishabi captures the power of the shopping community by allowing deal hunters to post prices they find online. This ensures Wishabi users with the most accurate information available.

Personal Shopping Service - Shopping can be tiring, especially if you’re pressed on time. Wishabi brings to Canada a personalized shopping service allowing users to keep track of items they want. Simply add items to your Wishabi list and you will automatically get notified when there are great deals or changes to the products you’re tracking. Shopping has never been simpler.

Why was Wishabi built?

The Wishabi founders realized that there was a big problem with online shopping in Canada. After shopping in the US for many years they realized the shopping tools in Canada were nearly non-existent, and using search engines to find products often lead to spammed out search results.

Wishabi’s goal is to provide Canadians a shopping engine that can satisfy their research needs and make informed shopping decisions on both sides of the border.

Some questions Wishabi helps to answer are:

• Is it better to buy now or later?
• What side of the border should I purchase from? Canada or the US?
• What additional services do I get from one merchant compared to another?
• What do my friends think of a product?

How does Wishabi work?

Wishabi believes in open, transparent information for Canadian shoppers and works with leading merchants across North America to present their product information, pricing and merchant value in a clear and concise way. Wishabi aims to make shopping data as accurate as possible. With our open system approach, any member can contribute Canadian shopping information they find.

Cross Border Shopping

Wishabi lists items from both Canadian and US merchants. For Canadian merchants, Wishabi works with top brand merchants to list their products in a simple and easy to use interface, while showcasing the services they provide.

For US merchants, Wishabi brings to light the hidden fees such as Duties, Customs Brokerage, Exchange Rate and Shipping information to give Canadians the total landed cost.

Deal Rank

Knowing how good a deal is can be very challenging, especially with fluctuating prices from high-low retailers.

Wishabi's patent pending deal rank technology lets users compare products and deals with each other. Deal rank uses statistical analysis and community feedback to determine how hot a deal is. Using this data, Users can see the market price (the lowest price that the product is commonly available), the price trending and volatility to easily make informed decisions.

With deal rank, Wishabi lets users know when to buy, and when to hold off on their purchases. Users will never need to guess whether a deal is actually good or not.

Value Based Shopping

In addition to merchant prices, Wishabi factors in the additional values they provide. For instance, how good was the return policy? How helpful was their staff? How long did it take to get a problem resolved? How did Merchants respond to shipping issues? Using this information, Wishabi rates the Merchants on 42 different factors and incorporates them into Deal Rank.

Crowd Sourcing

No technology is perfect and we've recognized this in our product design. One weak area for many shopping sites is their data coverage, especially for very good deals. These deals are typically get missed as they involve rebates and coupons.

To ensure Wishabi has the best deals, Wishabi uses an innovative crowd sourcing approach. Crowd sourcing allows deal-savvy Wishabi users to contribute deals they find. For example, if a deal hunter stumbles across a great deal at Canadian tire for a new GPS, they can post it to Wishabi.

To compensate our deal hunters, Wishabi pays them for finding deals that are better than Wishabi.

Wishabi Merchants

Wishabi has partnered with over 200 US and Canadian merchants to bring Canadians the best shopping experience. Below is a sample of partnered merchants on Wishabi.