Guides
How to use Grovena.
What each feature does, what it cannot do, and the parts that are easy to misread. Written for the moment you are stuck rather than for a search engine — for the wider grocery-price questions, see the blog.
- Reading a comparison
Close matches, and how your cart saving is worked out
Two things on a comparison that are easy to misread: what a Close Match label means, and why your cart's total saving is not the sum of the discounts.
Read - Installing the app
Adding Grovena to your home screen
Grovena installs like an app: its own icon, full screen, no address bar, and shortcuts straight to the scanner. What that changes, and the one thing it deliberately does not do.
Read - Finding productsPro
Scanning a barcode, and what to do when nothing comes up
Point your phone at a barcode and land on that product's full comparison in about a second. How to get a clean read, what happens when a scan finds nothing, and why Aldi own-brand never will.
Read - Tracking pricesPro
Reading price history, and spotting a cycle
A price on its own tells you what something costs. The history tells you whether that is a good price. How to read the chart on a product page, and when to let an alert watch it for you.
Read - Sending your cartPro
Sending your cart to Coles or Woolworths
Build your shop once in Grovena and put it in your real trolley in one click, instead of searching for all forty items again. What the extension does, what it can see, and why it is needed at all.
Read - Sending your cartPro
Saving a shop, and getting an answer every week
A cart tells you what your shop costs today. A saved list tells you what it costs this week, and where to buy it — every week, without rebuilding the cart. How lists work, and what they will and won't decide for you.
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