Adding a product to your watchlist

The watchlist is your “things to come back to” list. Add a product from any detail page; revisit later without paying credits.

In this guide:

• Add from the detail page
• Add a note
• What happens when you add
• Idempotent adds

Step 1: Add from the detail page

On any product detail page, top-right of the header: + Add to watchlist.

The button flips to a checkmark to confirm.

Step 2: Add a note (optional)

After adding, an inline notes field appears. Type a short note — “check supplier MOQ”, “compare to WIDGET-A”, “send to ops team”.

The note is saved with the watchlist entry. → Notes on watchlist items

Step 3: What happens when you add

Hilal:

• Creates a ResearchWatchlist entry tied to your account.
• Caches the product’s current metrics (so the watchlist row works without paying credits to re-fetch).
• Tags the entry with the originating search UUID (so you can trace it back).
• No credit is charged for the add itself.

The product appears in your Watchlist immediately.

Idempotent adds

Tapping Add to watchlist twice on the same product returns “already in watchlist” without duplicating. So if you forget you added something, you won’t end up with two rows.

To force-refresh the cached metrics (without re-running a search), open the product in your watchlist and tap Refresh. → Refreshing cached metrics

Removing from the watchlist

Either:

• On the detail page, the button toggles back to − Remove from watchlist.
• In the watchlist itself, swipe-to-delete or use the row’s ⋯ menu.

Removes are also idempotent — removing something not in the watchlist is a no-op (always 204 No Content from the API).

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