How to connect a product catalog to Feedcast?
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The product feed contains information about the products sold on your site. It requires mandatory attributes such as product title, price, stock status ... and optional attributes such as product description, brand, category, size ... This information is essential to validate and distribute the products of your e-commerce site.
To connect your product catalog, please proceed as follows:
1- Log into your Feedcast account
2- Select the catalog of your choice.
If this is your first connection, create a project and add your first product feed.
3- Choose the import method.
4 -Many solutions are proposed to you to recover your product flow in a few minutes:
Depending on your CMS utility (Shopify, Prestashop, Wordpress/Woocommerce, Magento...),
- To retrieve your catalog, you can use the official Shopify / Google module > Google Channel (free)
- Other very popular modules like Feed for Google Shopping](https://apps.shopify.com/google-shopping-feed) are also available (21 days trial version then from 5$/month)
*Note that for Shopify customers, an invitation to access the Merchant Center will be sent to select it in the installed Shopify application (for accounts running in France, Belgium or Switzerland).
- Directly from our Feedcast application by clicking on "From your store > Woocommerce" when choosing the feed retrieval method
- CTX Feed Extension (Free)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/webappick-product-feed-for-woocommerce/)
- Product Feed Pro Extension (Free)
Google Merchant Center module (paid): As an Autopilot subscriber (outside the trial period) you get free access to this module.
Using a hosted link in CSV, XLS or TXT format
We accept hosted links on XLS, CSV, TXT files containing your product catalog information.
Here is a sample file in XLS or TXT format with the mandatory information to be displayed on the advertising platforms.
We accept links from Google Sheet files
You will find more information on the https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7052112?" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" role="link" class="csh-markdown csh-markdown-link csh-markdown-link-text">product data specifications) provided by Google and compatible with the main advertising networks.
Good to know :
Once the product feed is retrieved and added to your Feedcast account, it will be automatically sent to Google for validation. It is updated daily.
We invite you to make sure that step 3 is completed in order to avoid account suspensions. The review of your catalog by Google usually takes 2 to 5 business days.
You will find the validation status of your catalog for Google (Merchant Center) directly in the Feedcast interface in the Product > Overview menu.
For all our subscribers, our teams remain available to answer your questions by mail or chat
Updated on : 27/01/2023
The product feed contains information about the products sold on your site. It requires mandatory attributes such as product title, price, stock status ... and optional attributes such as product description, brand, category, size ... This information is essential to validate and distribute the products of your e-commerce site.
To connect your product catalog, please proceed as follows:
1- Log into your Feedcast account
2- Select the catalog of your choice.
If this is your first connection, create a project and add your first product feed.
3- Choose the import method.
4 -Many solutions are proposed to you to recover your product flow in a few minutes:
Depending on your CMS utility (Shopify, Prestashop, Wordpress/Woocommerce, Magento...),
Via Shopify
- To retrieve your catalog, you can use the official Shopify / Google module > Google Channel (free)
- Other very popular modules like Feed for Google Shopping](https://apps.shopify.com/google-shopping-feed) are also available (21 days trial version then from 5$/month)
*Note that for Shopify customers, an invitation to access the Merchant Center will be sent to select it in the installed Shopify application (for accounts running in France, Belgium or Switzerland).
Via Wordpress / Woocommerce
- Directly from our Feedcast application by clicking on "From your store > Woocommerce" when choosing the feed retrieval method
- CTX Feed Extension (Free)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/webappick-product-feed-for-woocommerce/)
- Product Feed Pro Extension (Free)
Via Prestashop
Google Merchant Center module (paid): As an Autopilot subscriber (outside the trial period) you get free access to this module.
Using a hosted file
Using a hosted link in CSV, XLS or TXT format
We accept hosted links on XLS, CSV, TXT files containing your product catalog information.
Here is a sample file in XLS or TXT format with the mandatory information to be displayed on the advertising platforms.
Using a Google Sheet file
We accept links from Google Sheet files
You will find more information on the https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7052112?" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" role="link" class="csh-markdown csh-markdown-link csh-markdown-link-text">product data specifications) provided by Google and compatible with the main advertising networks.
Good to know :
Once the product feed is retrieved and added to your Feedcast account, it will be automatically sent to Google for validation. It is updated daily.
We invite you to make sure that step 3 is completed in order to avoid account suspensions. The review of your catalog by Google usually takes 2 to 5 business days.
You will find the validation status of your catalog for Google (Merchant Center) directly in the Feedcast interface in the Product > Overview menu.
For all our subscribers, our teams remain available to answer your questions by mail or chat
Updated on : 27/01/2023
Updated on: 06/03/2023
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