What is a Product Feed?

A product feed is data representation of your product pages on your website. Getprice requires certain data from you to be able to display your products and redirect customers to your site. Some of this data we require includes Product Name, Price, Product Page URL, Description and a few others that are set out below.

How does it work?

Once you have created a feed and have provided us with the URL indicating where it is located, Getprice can start scanning your feed. A bot reads the data in your feed and Getprice uploads and maps your products into their respective categories on the site. We rescan your feed daily to update any changes you may have made.

How do I create a Product Feed?

This usually depends on the capabilities of your shopping cart and your knowledge of it. Generally, a feed isn't hard to create but many merchants are unaware of how to go about it and need the expertise of a web designer or programmer to set one up.

If you already provide a feed to other comparison sites it is possible that Getprice can use it too. It would be worthwhile checking with your Getprice Account Manager to see if your existing feed is usable before creating a new one.

If you don't have a feed set up you might want to try set it up yourself. Setting up a feed is a matter of extracting relevant data from your product database. Most shopping carts are capable of this through an 'export' function. This exports the relevant information from your database to file in a format that Getprice requires. See the required fields and formats below.

If you don't think you can do it yourself you will need to contact your web developer, ecommerce provider, or your shopping cart merchant. Tell them that you need a product feed created and pass on the specifications below. Most web developers have had experience creating feeds previously and should be able to help you set one up reasonably quickly.

Most ecommerce platforms have this built into their admin systems already, for some there are modules available to add if you are not running their full solutions package: OsCommerce and X-cart

If you are a web provider and would like to assist your clients by creating a Getprice feed generator and posting it here please email us at : "info @ getprice.com.au"

If you need some assistance in creating a feed feel free to call your Getprice Account Manager on 02 9299 5993.

What format does Getprice require?

The feed can be a:

• Tab Delimited TXT file

• Tab Delimited CSV file

• XML file

You will need to provide us with the location (URL) of where the feed is located so we can rescan your feed regularly. If you are unable to do this it is possible that you can email the feed to us on a regular basis.

If possible, it is better to create a dynamic feed – automatically updates when you make changes to the site. This will prevent Getprice from showing outdated information of your products

Important: If you make any changes to the format of the feed, its location or change your site, please let us know as soon as possible as this could potentially affect the scanning of your products.

Tab-delimited file requirements

• Plain text

• First line of the file must be a header containing the field names used in the field (described below)

• One product per line with no trailing tabs at the end of a line

• Please remove all HTML tags, new line characters, and carriage returns.

• The Product URL's and Image URL's should be proceeded by http:// - e.g. http://yoursite.com.au/camera.html

An example of what a product feed should look like can be found here

Tab-delimited TXT Requirements

We will need the following fields from you in the TXT Feed (format as tab delimited TXT) If possible please can this file be produced dynamically so that products will be automatically be kept up to date:

• Product Name - Required

• MPN (Optional)

• Product ID - Required

• Short Description - Required

• Category Name - Highly Recommended

• Brand - Highly Recommended

• Model - Highly Recommended

• Image Link - Required

• Product URL - Required

• Price - Required

• Sale Price - Optional

• Shipment Costs - Recommended

• Shipping Times - Recommended

• Size - Optional

• Age (for children's toys, clothes etc). This is optional.

If there are any changes or updates to the feed, its location or to your site, please let us know as soon as possible as this could potentially affect the scanning of your products.

XML Requirements

Category XML (Optional)

Product XML (Mandatory)

Other fields that may be included for certain categories

XML requirements

XML Examples

The XML required by Get Price is made up of two separate files. The first represents the lowest level of categories in your website and the second represents the products in any specific category.

* The category link must link to the product xml file which will only show products related to that category.

Category XML

Product XML

* The category link must link to the product xml file which will only show products related to that category.