Yes, a normal tap on the camera button opens the camera, but a long press opens up the camera roll to let you use an existing photo.

We suggest you enter grocery items for your list using the generic name for the item, possibly including an adjective such as light or dark at the end.  In older version of Grosh, we suggested that you included organic indication and variant information (such as brand and package size) as part of the item name – this is no longer good practise.

Try not to use punctuation characters such as , . – or brackets () in item names, just use space. We don’t want several items with identical meaning to be present in the system. Items with the same meaning will clutter your autocomplete lists, making it harder to see options for adding new items to your lists. For the same reason, we want adverbs at the end of item names.

Examples of GOOD item naming:

“butter”

“skimmed milk”

“chocolate dark”

Examples of BAD item naming:

“butter – 200g – lurpak”

“skimmed milk eco arla”

“dark chocolate”

When scanning barcodes or buying items, Grosh let’s you add variant information such as package size and brand, and to indicate if it’s an organic grocery. This information is entered in separate fields, not as part of the grocery name.

Doing so has several benefits in the system. If several variants of a grocery (say cheese) are added using the same generic name “cheese” and then supplemented with additional information in the variant fields, Grosh is able to see the relationship between these items.

Examples:

• If you scan a barcode on one type of cheese, you can see prices for various types of cheese.
• For stock lists, the system can check if you have other variants of a grocery before asking you to renew your stock. For example, if you scan the barcode of a corn flakes package when removing it from stock, the app does not suggest you buy corn flakes, if you still have any other corn flakes (any brand or package size) on stock.

Grosh analyses the item name you enter at the top of the shoppinglist before adding the item to your list, any you may experience that Grosh changed the item name. It does this for two reasons:

1. To make it easy to assign store and price, so it extracts price from the end, and second last it looks for a store name – if  “comma space” is found, this is understood as the start of a comment to the item
2. To avoid similar items in the auto complete list that appears under the text entry field. Eg Skimmed milk is changed to “milk skimmed” so the two identical items are NOT present in the system. Grosh has an algorithm for detecting what is the item name and what’s adjectives / variant information. But you can help Grosh by always entering item names according to our naming conventions.

Related to reason 2 and not to have duplicates, Grosh removes casing to the entered item name and ignores brackets and other delimiter characters in item names. As Grosh grows more aware of e.g. brand names, this will change slightly in the future.

Yes, once you’ve started purchasing items at a location, you may left swipe an item. You will notice, that the normal Delete function has been replaced by a Hide function. This hides the item from the current list, but does not delete it. Once you enter another store or restart the app, the items will appear on the list again. This is very handy when you want to declutter the list in order only to show items you want to buy at a particular store.

If you’re unsure if a Premium purchase has been made for the app, just head over to the menu.

• If there’s no item at the top called “Upgrade to Premium” then you’ve got Premium.
• If there’s a menu item called “Upgrade to Premium” then the app is currently unaware of a Premium purchases. This could be the case after e.g. reinstalling the app – or if Premium has never been purchased.

If you’ve paid for Premium but the app hasn’t registered this, select the “Upgrade to Premium” menu item to present the upgrade screen. Tap the “Restore premium purchase” button on the upgrade screen. This contacts Apple or Google and checks their purchase records:

• If restore cannot be restored, then there’s no valid subscription purchase. You may also manually verify this by visiting the listing of current subscriptions. On Android, look for Grosh under subscriptions on
  https://play.google.com/store/account. On iOS, go to Settings > iTunes & App Store and tap your Apple id at the top. Then tap View Apple ID and then choose Subscriptions.

• If a purchase had been made, it is restored and the menu will change to reflect this by hiding the “Upgrade to Premium” menu item.