Hi David ....
Any automation script OR API available in pricetapestry script ??
Its help Files will be retrieved daily from merchant server having merchant products price listed automatically on out site.
I Contact to 2-3 Merchant.All merchant ready to install script in own server .so any automation script availabel which helps me to get product and price update automatically ...
OR
can be possible Create API for merchant ???
technoarenasol
Ok David..any idea about merchant eCommerce system export csv or xml update automatic or manually ....means every time requires inform to merchant "We need to update your product price ..please update your data-feed"? OR no manual work for merchant ??
note : merchant use open-cart ecommerce system
Hi technoarenasol,
Rather than make it casual; I would suggest asking your merchants to create the feed on a regular basis - say weekly - and even if prices have not been updated, and then you fetch the feed weekly as part of your automation process.
(of course the merchant can choose not to re-build the feed if nothing has changed but you don't need to be aware of their on going process of feed generation).
Or it could even be nightly - you have your automation process set-up to fetch and import their feed nightly; and your merchant simply updates the feed whenever they update prices - that's way you'll never be out of date for more than 24 hours (which is the normal case anyway with affiliate datafeeds / nightly update).
Cheers,
David.
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technoarenasol
Ok David...Thnx for valuable information....
Hi technoarenasol,
As Price Tapestry is designed to work with feeds rather than APIs, if you are working with merchants who can provide data for you; what you would be best off doing is asking them to create a feed, which they can then host on their server; which you can fetch as required using the Automation Tool / CRON just as your site would fetch any other feed.
Simply let the merchants know what format you require the data in - for example, a quoted text, comma separated CSV file, with the following header row:
"ProductName","Description","ImageURL","BuyURL","Price","Category","Brand"...and then rather than having to implement an API, they simply create a products.csv file and host the file on their server for you; which you then fetch using an Automation Tool job / cron.php as normal (more info).
Note that your merchant's ecommerce system may well already have an export function - the file is almost certainly compatible with Price Tapestry without any further modification so I would always ask first if they have a sample file that you try before instructing in what format you would like the product export.
Cheers,
David.
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PriceTapestry.com