Shop mode on every supplier's site
The Halo Business extension for Chrome puts your shopping list beside whatever supplier you're buying from. Tick lines off with a key, search the site for the next one in a click, and never switch tabs to check what's left.
In cart, Skip and Undo work while the supplier's site is in front. A small note shows what happened.
Search types the line into the site's own search bar and runs it. If there isn't one, the name is copied for you.
Chrome's side panel shows the line to buy, the price to beat, and the whole list, on every tab.
On a supplier's product page, the side panel shows its price per kg against what you last paid, the cheapest known and your usual spend.
On the supplier's basket, Halo checks it against your list: what's missing, what's more or less, and anything extra.
On the order confirmation, one tap sends the order to Halo as that supplier's invoice, so its prices are in the same day.
Right-click a recipe and choose Add to Halo Business as a dish. It opens as a new dish to check, with its ingredients and method.
Getting it
- Add Halo Business from the Chrome Web Store. It's free with your Halo Business account. (It's on its way to the store now.)
- Pin the gold bolt from Chrome's jigsaw menu, at the right of the address bar.
- Open your shopping list and tap Shop mode. Chrome's side panel opens with the first line, and the keys work on any site while Shop mode is on.
The keys
| Does | Windows | Mac |
|---|---|---|
| In cart | Ctrl ⇧ → | ⌘ ⇧ → |
| Skip, for the end | Ctrl ⇧ ← | ⌘ ⇧ ← |
| Undo | Ctrl ⇧ ↑ | ⌘ ⇧ ↑ |
| Search the site you're on | Ctrl ⇧ ↓ | ⌘ ⇧ ↓ |
They work only while Shop mode is on, or while you price a dish. The rest of the time Ctrl ⇧ and the arrows do what they always do, like selecting a word at a time. On a supplier's site they need Chrome's OK to read pages: the side panel asks the first time.
Privacy policy
For the Halo Business Chrome extension · updated 6 November 2026
What it looks at. While Shop mode is on, it listens on each page for its four keys and for presses of the site's own Add buttons, and for nothing else. On a supplier's site it reads nothing until you press one of its keys, tap Search or press the site's Add. Then it finds that page's search bar to type the line's name in, or reads the name, pack size, price and quantity of the product whose Add you pressed (to tick the line off and keep the price), and shows a small note. On Halo Business it passes your key presses to Shop mode and shows your shopping list in Chrome's side panel. When you tap Price this dish on a dish, it reads the product names, pack sizes and prices on the supplier pages you open during that run, to show you the closest matches. With the side panel's This page tab open, it looks at the address, title and first words of the page in front, to tell a product, a basket or an order confirmation from anything else, and on a product page it reads the product's name, pack size and price. It reads the whole page only when you tap Check the basket or Send to Halo, or, while Shop mode is open and the extension is connected, when a supplier's basket first opens (to check it against your list) and when an order confirmation opens (to send the order to Halo). It never reads passwords or payment details, and never reads a page you haven't asked it to.
What it keeps. While Shop mode is open, your shopping list is kept in Chrome on your computer so the side panel can show it. Chrome clears it when you close the browser. If you connect the extension on Account, a key for that computer is kept in Chrome until you disconnect it. It counts which websites you press In cart on, and each site's search address, kept in Chrome on your computer, so it can learn your suppliers' sites and open them straight on the line. You can forget any of them in the side panel. During a shop it also notes which website each line went In cart on, for Basket check; Chrome clears that when you close the browser.
What it sends. Until you connect it, nothing. Once you tap Connect on Account, it sends that computer's key to Halo Business, and only there, to check who it's connected as: your name, your business, your role and whether your business shares market prices. When you price a dish, it sends Halo Business only the prices you choose to use: the product's name, pack size and price as the supplier's site shows them, the page's address, and which supplier that website is. On a product page, with This page open, it sends Halo Business the product's name, pack size, price and page address to show what you paid for it before: by itself on a website you've said is one of your suppliers, and elsewhere only when you tap What did we pay?. Save the price you see keeps that price on Halo as a web price. When you tap Check the basket or Send to Halo, it sends Halo Business that page's text, address and title, and for Basket check your Shop mode list (the lines, amounts and which website each went In cart on). Halo Business has Claude, Anthropic's AI, read the page, just as it reads the invoices you upload. A sent order is kept as that supplier's invoice, which you can remove on Prices; a checked basket isn't kept. When you right-click a page and choose Add to Halo Business as a dish, it sends that page's recipe data, words, address and title (or, for a right-clicked link, just the link) so Halo can make the dish, as Add dishes does with a pasted link. Nothing else from a supplier's site is ever sent, and nothing goes to anyone else. There are no adverts, no tracking and no analytics, and nothing is ever sold.
- Halo Business's own site: to talk to Shop mode and, once you connect it, to check who it's connected as.
- The site in front when you tap Search in the toolbar popup, or press a key you picked for Save the price you see: to search it, or read that price, and show the note. Chrome allows this for that one press or tap, with nothing to accept.
- Read and change data on all websites: only if you choose to let the keys work on supplier sites and the side panel's Search button search for you, to price a dish on your suppliers' sites, or to check baskets and send orders. The panel says why first, then Chrome asks. Even then, it only writes into a site's search bar when you click. Say no and the button copies the name instead, and the keys work on Halo Business only.
- The right-click menu: for Add to Halo Business as a dish. Chrome lets it read the page you right-clicked, for that one click, with nothing to accept.
- Copy to the clipboard, the side panel, and storage on your computer: for the copied name, the panel and the list.
If this changes. If a later version could send anything anywhere, this page will say exactly what first, and the extension will ask you before it does.
Questions. Talk to us. Removing the extension from Chrome removes everything it kept. Disconnect a computer on Account, or from the extension's toolbar popup, and its key stops working straight away.