ScoutIQ

I used the app with multiple accounts for over a year until I got fed up. Live works fine and is easy to use. Database is so inaccurate you cannot trust it. If you do, you will be making terrible purchases and missing good ones. I contacted the help about this and they said to delete the app to clear the cache. This isn’t the issue. My team would source together. Live and database scans gave very different results. I had to double check everything with live, which resulted in throwing back half of what database told me to get. This was time consuming and frustrating. There’s no telling how many good ones I missed using database. Before I stated double checking with live I was making a lot of bad purchases also. The app is fine with live only. Database is a frustrating waste of money.

I really do believe this app is of some quality, but the database feature is pretty bad. How can you charge extra for this service when it’s not accurate, even when freshly downloaded? The UI also has issues displaying the correct rank to the E Score. This ultimately has everything to do with the fact that the database isn’t displaying the most up to date information. There were a lot of scans that I either missed or picked up accidentally because the database would say that it’s a good buy and then once you hit live, it’s a bad buy. From my understanding, Scoutly and ScoutIQ are the only FBA scanning apps that have a database feature. If this doesn’t work on your app, then it’s regulated to just being a live service app, which in that case there are better app options. Fix this issue before you charge people for it.

I looked into a couple of leading apps when I got started and decided to go with ScoutIQ. After more than 10k scans, I am happy to report that I love the app. It is hard to get started selling books - a lot to learn (besides the grind of FINDING them every day), I work solo, etc. ScoutIQ makes me feel like I have a team working with me - doing the math in the background on each book, and making a recommendation. Now that I have been working at it for a while, I have some perspective and can tweak my decisions, but having the baseline info with ways to dive deeply quickly has been imperative (all data points are clickable - the reasons/more info about each one). It has had my back while helping me learn. Unexpected benefit - I didn’t expect to use SCOUTIQ when I am listing - but I do - to see what a recommended price point is. This comes in handy when evaluating against the buy box price and assessing textbook pricing. Another teammate weighing in. Soooo helpful. How’s the tech support? When I had an issue (today) I emailed my question to the scoutiq team, and got a response within 90 minutes. Crucial when hustling. The response time, the thoroughness and hitting 10k scans were all drivers for submitting this review. Oh, and I live in Kansas. Some of my book locations can be remote, let’s say. Having the dbase version is vital!! Happy scanning!