New Purchases view allows you to see purchase and delivery updates at the same time
If you have your personal and work email accounts running through Gmail, make sure that you have the personal one open to use this feature, since it will only work with personal Gmail accounts. The Purchases view will show you all of your emails related to your online purchases, including emailed receipts, order numbers, tracking numbers, and more. If you were sent an email related to a purchase you made, it should show up in this view. Besides the receipt emails, above the primary inbox will be summary cards showing orders that will be arriving soon.
A change is also being made to the Promotions category, which will allow you to sort the promotional emails you receive by the brands and senders that matter the most to you. These will also include email from those firms that you engage with the most. And to make sure that a particular deal that is close to expiring has been read by you, Gmail will poke you in the side or, as Google says, “nudge” you by highlighting deals soon to expire.
Google is a practical company. They know that you might be resistant to change. If you want to keep the Promotions category as it is now, you can choose the option to sort promotional emails by “most recent” instead of “most relevant.” The latter will sort the email for your Promotions view using the changes mentioned above. The improved Promotions category will be pushed out on mobile in the coming weeks for those with a personal Gmail account.
How these new Gmail features can help you
The change to the Promotions category will be a time saver since it should place all promos from companies you’re interested in doing business with in the same place. No longer will you have to go through all of the emailed promos looking for the ones you’d be interested in.
I can’t see how these features won’t save you time
If you order online often, the Purchases view might be the first thing you will look at in the morning when you open Gmail and wipe the sleep out of your eyes. This is true especially now with consumers anxiously awaiting their new Pixel and iPhone orders. Before you know it, you’ll be ordering gifts for the holidays. Things that can save time are useful to me, and for the aforementioned reasons, I’m looking forward to using the new Purchases view and the revised Promotions tab.
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