Hello,
Merchants have contacted me saying they would like to upload their products to my site. Is there a way to enable them to do this?
Thank you!
Thank you for this information. Is there a conjob I can setup for this to run automatically so I do not have to do it manually?
Hi,
To automate the process your merchants would need to host a CSV (or XML but that's less likely) file for you - of course there's no reason why they can't do the spreadsheet to CSV feed conversion for you and then upload the feed to their website ready for your site to fetch and import with the automation tool just as any other feed...
Cheers,
David.
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PriceTapestry.com
Hi,
Whilst the script is of course designed to work with affiliate datafeeds there's no reason why you can't create your own feeds. One way would be to ask your merchants to supply their product information to you in a spreadsheet format, and then you can simply save the spreadsheet as CSV using the File > Export function (the default Export options of both Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice.org Calc, which is free and will open Excel files) create a .csv file that is compatible with Price Tapestry.
All you would need in the sheet would be a header row of at least the required fields (Product Name, Buy URL and Price) but let you merchants know that they can also supply Description, Image URL, Category and Brand; and then product information one item per row...
Cheers,
David.
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PriceTapestry.com