Creating a data feed for Shopping.com
From Spiffy Stores Knowledge Base
Shopping.com, an eBay® company, pioneered online comparison shopping and today is consistently the leading online comparison site because of its comprehensive set of products from thousands of trusted stores from across the Web.
With an average of 20 million unique visitors each month, Shopping.com offers shoppers easy-to-use search tools, engaging content, and time saving navigation, along with millions of unbiased product and merchant reviews from Epinions.com community, all in one place.
For more information about the Shopping.com Merchant Program, visit the Shopping.com site at https://aumerchant.ebaycommercenetwork.com/public/#/public/enroll
To create a feed for the Shopping.com site, you'll need to do three things.
- Create a new collection that contains all of the products you want to include in your product feed.
- Create your data feed.
- Add your data feed on the shopping.com website
Product data feeds are updated whenever you make a change to your products, so you can be sure that they're up to date. To create a data feed for Shopping.com follow the instructions below.
IMPORTANT!
You need to ensure that all of your products have a unique SKU before submitting your data file to any provider. If you don't do this, they will not accept your submission!
Step 1 - Create a collection of products
Collections Section
Firstly we need to have a list of products to send to Shopping.com. To create this, you'll need to create a collection that contains all of the products you want in your data feed. You can create a Standard Collection or a Super Collection. This can be done in the "Collections" section of your store's Toolbox.
If you already have created a collection for another provider (for example Google Merchant Center) then you can skip this step.
Step 2 - Creating your data feed
Creating your data feed
After you have created your collection, go to the
"Marketing -> Product data feeds" section of your store's Toolbox, and click the "Activate" button in the Shopping.com section. If you can only see a feed for Facebook, it means that you're on a plan that doesn't include feeds for other services. You should consider upgrading your plan if you want to take advantage of more advanced features like data feeds.
- Enter a name for your feed. It's not used anywhere except for your reference
- Select the collection you created in Step 1
- Click the "Activate" button
Step 3 - Adding your data feed on the shopping.com website
Adding your data feed on the shopping.com website
Once you have signed up for a Shopping.com merchant account, you can then add your data feed. On the home page of the Merchant Centre, click the "Submit Datafeed" button.
Choose your data feed format
On the next screen, choose "Retrieve from my own FTP or HTTP location".
Paste in your URL
Paste in the URL of your data feed that you have copied from the "Marketing -> Product data feeds" section of your store's Toolbox. In most browsers, you can right-click on the URL and copy it.
When you have done this, click the continue button.
Data feed format.
You can safely skip past the next screen. All of the fields should be correctly assigned.
Data feed options
Select "Shipping rates are included in the data feed file", and choose "Other" for "Tell Us About Your Datafeed Provider". After clicking the "Continue" button, you should see a confirmation screen.
If you are contacted by Shopping.com about issues with your data feed, please let us know by forwarding us the email.