Wishpicks re-checks the price of items you track and emails you when a price drops enough to matter. Plus re-checks about every 12 hours; the free plan checks less often. Alerts always come as batched email — never instant, daily, or in-app.
How a price-drop alert happens
You turn on Price drop alerts and track an item. See "How do I turn on price-drop alerts and control the emails I get?"
Wishpicks re-reads that item's page on a schedule.
When the new price drops enough — by your threshold or below your target price — the item becomes eligible for an alert.
Eligible drops are gathered together and sent to you in one email, not one email per item.
How often prices are checked
With Plus, tracked items are re-checked about every 12 hours. Free tracking runs on a slower, ageing schedule: partner-store items are checked roughly every 2 days for the first month, then a bit less often after that.
How often you'll get an email
Alerts are batched, with a minimum gap between emails per account:
Plus: at most one drop email every 12 hours — so up to about two a day.
Free: at most one drop email every ~3 days.
So even if several items drop at once, you get them grouped into a single email rather than a stream of pings.
Keep in mind
There's no in-app bell or push for price drops. The batched email is the only price-drop notification there is, and it respects your Price drop alerts toggle.
What counts as "enough" of a drop. By default an alert fires when the price falls by 9% or more. With Plus you can change that or set a target price instead. See "How do I set a target price or change when I get a price-drop alert?"
Out-of-stock items don't trigger alerts. A drop on a sold-out item won't email you, and there are no back-in-stock alerts at all. See "Will Wishpicks tell me when a sold-out item is back in stock?"
Currency has to match. A price update only applies when the price Wishpicks reads is in the same currency the item is already saved in. This stops a price from a different-country version of the page overwriting yours. See "What is Wishpicks Plus, and what do you get?"
Free tracking only covers partner stores. To track a price at any store, you need Plus. See "What is Wishpicks Plus, and what do you get?"