I have been using the slow import tool as the normal method times out but once its finished importing supposedly all the feed and takes me back to the slow import page there are only about 800 products imported. This has just started happening with the feeds I have been trying today. Last week I was uploading feeds of 10-30,000 products
Hi kimarie,
Are these new feeds, or feeds that have imported a greater number of products before?
There are 2 main reasons for a feed to import significantly less products than you are expecting;
1) Many records in the feed are invalid, i.e. do not contain the minimum required fields of Product Name, Buy URL and Price
2) Duplicates - i.e. the same Product Name for the same Merchant already exists in the database.
Of these, 2) is actually the more common, and is often encountered with clothing feeds; where, for example, the Product Name is something like "Jumper", but other fields in the field provide more resolution, such as Colour and Size. In this case, the solution is to use Text Before / Text After filters to combine those additional fields with the Product Name to create more unique Product Names.
When you add a Text After or Text Before filter, the text can include placeholders to pull-in the value of any other field in the feed, so let's say your feed has a field called "COLOUR" (as per the table shown in the example record on Feed Registration Step 1), you can include %COLOUR% in the text box on the configuration page for the filter, which will be replaced with the value of the COLOUR field for that record, e.g.
" %COLOUR%"...without quotes, but note the SPACE at the start, which is important otherwise there would be no space between the product name and the value pulled in by the Text After filter!
If you're not sure of course, if you could email me a link to your installation and the filename of the feed that is causing the problem, I'll download it from your /feeds/ folder to my test server and check it out for you...
Cheers,
David.
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