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Submitted by creature on Mon, 2007-08-13 13:03 in Price Tapestry

First of all, let me note that the support for this product appears to be super. Likely the best I've seen. I like that, it comforts me!

OK I have some questions:

1. Is there an admin demo? If there is it would probably alleviate the majority of my questions.
2. I want to be able to enter many live feed urls (somewhere) and setup a cron every night to automatically update. My php knowledge is pretty basic. Is this possible with Price Tapestry? If so, could you explain how and the knowledge level necessary if any.
3. I want to also be able to upload an xml feed if there is no live feed url present. Is this possible?
4. Explain the 30 day garauntee. If I simply hate it and decide never to use it within the 30 day period do I get my money back?

That's it I think. Your response is appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi, Thank you for your

Submitted by support on Mon, 2007-08-13 13:22

Hi,

Thank you for your interest in Price Tapestry! Regarding your questions...

1. There is an admin demo - you can login to the admin section of WebPriceCheck.co.uk:

http://www.webpricecheck.co.uk/admin/
(username: demo, password: demo)

2 & 3. Please note that Price Tapestry only works on product feeds, which you upload to the /feeds/ directory of your Price Tapestry installation. The first time you add a new feed, you first register it (through the admin panel), and then import. Whenever you upload a new version of a feed you only need to import it again to update the products for that merchant, you don't need to register each time.

All of this can be automated, and many users do. The methods and level of automation you can achieve depend on what resources and access to your server / hosting account you have, but there is a comprehensive guide for setting this up here:

http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/198

If you are not able to setup shell scripts and CRON jobs, you might be interested in the following thread that takes you through a step-by-step method of automating the process with PHP:

http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/1304

4. Yes - if you decide that the script isn't for you just let us know and we'll refund your purchase.

Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.

See. What a wonderful

Submitted by creature on Mon, 2007-08-13 15:04

See. What a wonderful response. Quick too. Thank You. I am checking the links you provided and researching the available data feeds I have. I appreciate your reply!