Catalogue filters: how to pick a batch

The storefront is built on two levels. The category answers for the type of product — one per live feed tag. Everything else is selection inside the category, and it is done by the filter panel rather than by going to another page.

The number of sections on the storefront is not fixed. If the stock on a tag drops to zero, the category leaves the storefront and the sitemap by itself, and when the product returns it comes back. So it is worth going by the list of categories rather than by a remembered number.

The panel is deliberately short: it holds only the fields the feed gives out as a number. Everything written in words — the origin of the batch, the state of the accounts, the contents, the delivery format — is not taken by filters and is looked for by title.

Sorting is added to that: by popularity, by price up and down. Sorting by stock is available straight from the table header.

Age in days is not filled in for every position, and that is not a fault. For part of the product the age is not defined in principle: fresh batches do not have it, and archive ones carry a range of years in the title such as «Aged 2012–2020» — such a range cannot be turned into a specific number of days.

The practical conclusion: if you need aged accounts in particular, do not rely on the filter alone. Age is stated in the title in three different ways — as a storage period in months, as a registration month and as a range of years — and a search by title finds the positions that the numeric filter will skip.

• «Aged 5+ months» — the period since registration.
• «Reg. 03.2025» — a specific month of registration.
• «Aged 2012–2020» — a range of years; such positions have no numeric age.
• «Fresh» and «Aged» without a qualifier — the roughest gradation, worth double-checking against the neighbouring marks.

The same goes for followers: the field is filled in far from everywhere, and a filter on it narrows the selection more than expected. If followers are not critical for the task, this slider is better left alone entirely.

The opposite mistake occurs too: narrowing the age range so that positions with an empty field do not make it into the selection. The numeric filter drops them silently, and a batch that fits the description simply is not shown.

A position has two stock counters, and that is not a duplication. The first is the total volume of the batch listed against the position. The second is how much of it is ready to leave instantly, right after payment. The numbers diverge, and the divergence can be several-fold.

The meaning of the difference is simple. Total stock answers the question «how much of this product exists at all», instant delivery answers «how much will arrive right now». For a retail purchase the difference is unnoticeable, for a large order it is decisive.

• Total stock — the whole volume listed against the position.
• Instant delivery — the part of the stock ready to leave right after payment.
• The instant delivery flag stands separately on the position: it answers «at once or not», not «how many».

Sorting by stock from the table header helps to collect a list of large batches in one pass, but the final decision is taken by the card: it shows both the total volume and how much of it leaves immediately.

Hence the caution with large batches: the volume you see in the list and the volume that will arrive in one or two minutes are not the same thing. If you need the whole stock, it is more sensible to split the purchase or ask support in advance than to run into the replacement window with an incomplete batch.

There are no separate country pages in the catalogue, and that is deliberate: not every product has a country, only part of the positions with registration from a real device. Making sections for it would mean breeding pages that empty out together with the stock.

Instead the country is stated right in the position title, and it is found by search: in the catalogue panel it is enough to type the name of the country. Live stock has held Brazil, Colombia, the Philippines and Thailand, as well as the MIX mark for mixed batches. Availability changes, so it is worth checking by search rather than from memory.

The same search picks the marks that have no filter at all — and those are the majority. The origin of the batch, the state of the accounts, the contents and the delivery format live only in the title, and the panel does not filter by them.

• Origin: «API autoreg», «SMS API autoreg», «Mobile API autoreg», «Real Device», «Real Device SMS», «Manual reg», «UFAC WWW Bloks».
• State: «100% Valid», «NoFrozen», «do not die in storage», «FROZEN», «For recovery», «V2», «V3», «Empty».
• Contents: «2FA», «Cookie», «With Email», «Gmail», «Firstmail», «Email confirmed», «for InstAccountsManager».
• Format: what stands in the title after the word «Format» — your compatibility with your software depends on it, and «Format: IGAM» means InstAccountsManager only.

The search also looks by SKU, so a position you have found is convenient to save exactly by it: the title may change with a new supply, while the SKU stays the same.

The only thing missing from the panel is a filter by minimum batch — and it is exactly what most often decides whether a position suits you. The spread is wide: from a retail unit to large wholesale, and neighbouring catalogue rows may demand different volumes. What is more, such positions look almost identical: the same origin, the same format, a different minimum.

Sorting by price helps here. Positions with a large minimum are almost always noticeably cheaper per unit, so in a list sorted by ascending price they gather at the top — while positions with a small batch end up lower. The exact value is still to be looked up on the position card: it is stated next to the price, and that is the shop minimum, not the supplier one.

The minimum on the card is the value the position is actually released at, not the one declared by the supplier of the batch. That is what you go by: it is exactly what is checked when the order is placed.

The selection order comes out like this: first the category, then the search by mark, then the numeric filters, and at the end the check of the minimum batch and the instant stock on the card. The first three steps narrow the list, the last one decides whether the order goes through. Skipping the last step is the most frequent reason why a seemingly suitable position does not get ordered.