For our purposes, a data feed is a large file filled with lots of information. More specifically, information about the merchant's products. A data feed can also be thought of as a database. Data feeds can contain anywhere from a handful of products, to tens of thousands of products. File sizes vary, and in uncompressed form can be anywhere from 500k up to 20MB or more. Datafeeds are automatically downloaded from the merchant server and products are loaded into the ShopMania database
| Category Name | Manufacturer | Model | Merchant Product Code | Product Name | Product Description | Product URL | Product Image URL | Price | Currency |
| Handmade Presents | Dog Basket | Dog Basket | This oval dog basket is approx. 80cm ... | http://www.handmadepresents.co.uk/onlineshop/Willow-Baskets/Dog-Basket.html | http://www.handmadepresents.co.uk/onlineshop/product/dogbasket.jpg | 47.00 | GBP | ||
| Handmade Presents | Round Shopping Basket | Round Shopping Basket | This attractive round shopping basket has been woven using different ... | http://www.handmadepresents.co.uk/onlineshop/Willow-Baskets/Round-Shopping-Basket.html | http://www.handmadepresents.co.uk/onlineshop/product/roundshopper.jpg | 43.00 | GBP | ||
| Handmade Presents | Hanging Baby Cradle | Hanging Baby Cradle | This hanging baby cradle has been created by weaving willow around ... | http://www.handmadepresents.co.uk/onlineshop/Willow-Baskets/Hanging-Baby-Cradle.html | http://www.handmadepresents.co.uk/onlineshop/product/hangingbabycradle.jpg | 153.00 | GBP | ||
| Handmade Presents | Wastepaper Basket Tall | Wastepaper Basket Tall | This waste paper basket is about 40cm high and 30cm... | http://www.handmadepresents.co.uk/onlineshop/Willow-Baskets/Wastepaper-Basket-Tall.html | http://www.handmadepresents.co.uk/onlineshop/product/wastepaperbaskethigh.jpg | 30.00 | GBP |
| Fields required for matching the products | ||
| Category Name | required | Needs to be one of the categories of the site or a relevant category that can be easily identified into our categories system |
| Manufacturer | (Ex: Nokia, LG. Recommended for electronic products) | |
| Model | >Manufacturer part number or model. (EX: ISBN for books, UPC for DVDs). |
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| Merchant Product Code | required | Unique product code that you are using in order to identify the product in the database. |
| Product Name | required | |
| Product informations fields | ||
| Product Description | ||
| Product URL | required | Product page URL from your site. |
| Product Image URL | recommended | The product image URLfrom your server. Please use the highest possible resolution. |
| Product Price | required | Default product price. |
| Currency | Price currency. If no value is entered the default site currency will be used. | |
You can make the necessary settings by accessing the "Upload Settings" link in the top navigation bar.
After the changes are made it can take up to 24 hours until your products will be visible on the site. If you think there is a no problem with the datafeed you have loaded please do not hesitate to contact us!
You can only list your products if they can be matched to one of the categories from our website. Otherwise please contact us in order to arrange this facility for you.
Please provide the inner categories for your products and not the root categories: Audio & Multimedia > Camcorders / MP4 Players / MP3 Players, instead of Audio & Multimedia.
It will be very helpful for us if you provide the full path for every category: "Audio & Multimedia > Camcorders > Accessories" instead of just "Accessories"
Here are some reasons why your datafile might be rejected:
# The value specified for the "Upload URL" field is invalid
# Your script output does not look like a valid merchant datafeed. Fields are not in the required order (category | manufacturer | part number | merchant product code | product name | description | product URL | image URL | price | currency)
# Your script output does not look like a valid merchant datafeed. If this is an osCommerce/ZenCart/Virtuemart script you need to make sure the script is located in the same place with the rest of the files as this is the most common problem.
# Your merchant datafeed has some output errors. The problem is that some fields mainly product description spread on multiple rows. You need to check and make sure the new line characters (\n) are being automatically removed from every field. If this is an osCommerce/ZenCart/Virtuemart script this should already be taken into consideration unless you have not altered the script.
# The size of your merchant datafeed exceeds the maximum size of 20 Mb and maximum number of allowed products (10,000). Please make sure you limit your script output to the above mentioned maximum limits