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First of all,  if you were able to successfully list your products on the merchant sites using ExportFeed, we’d like to congratulate you and our wishes for your business growth through the sales channels (merchant sites).

ExportFeed offers you to list products on three types of sales channels.

1. Marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, etc.
2. Comparison Shopping Engines like Google Shopping
3. Affiliate platforms like ShareASale, Webgains

And depending upon the merchants, there are three ways to list your products and for some merchants, we have implemented all three of them.

1. Submitting Feed URL
2. Direct Connection for Upload and listing management.
3. Product feed File Upload

Submitted Feed URL

If you listed your products to Google Shopping by submitting Feed URL, you need to keep ExportFeed plugin or your Cloud service account active. This is because the path submitted to your Google Merchant Center is within the ExportFeed services. And Google and other such merchants regularly fetch the updated product data from those URL paths.

Uploaded via Direct Connections

If you listed your products using Direct Connections like on Etsy, even if you remove ExportFeed, your listing will still be intact, unlike some other service providers. However, there is a catch. Your updated product data will not be synced between the merchants like Etsy. This, in turn, will cause your listing to get buried beneath the newer and updated listings and will cost you in loss of sales revenue.

Uploaded using File Upload

What if you created a product feed file and uploaded that file to the merchants? This is possible with Amazon (you also have direct upload for Amazon marketplaces except for India and Australia) and ShareASale. However, merchants like these themselves recommend uploading updated product feed files in order to see changes in sales.

One more reason to keep using ExportFeed when you’re uploading product feed files to merchants is that you can implement AB testing for your product title, description, tags, and image links for as long as you get desired sales results.

When ExportFeed allows you so much flexibility and opportunities to increase your sales, why would anyone want to miss that out?

Automatically uploading your updated product data to ShareASale requires you to get Merchant’s FTP access from ShareASale.

You need to contact the tech team at shareasale@shareasale.com to setup a FTP access for you.

Then you can simply provide your Merchant FTP access to support team at ExportFeed and let us know about your upload frequency requirement.

Note: ShareASale allows a merchant to upload product feed up to 31 times a month.

Product Feed File Upload: What is it?

When the delivery method is “file upload” is it still automated.. or do u have to go and click “upload”  like a live URL always stays up to date?

Not really. File upload means uploading a csv or txt files. The feed is updated within the site and our plugin cannot push the updates to merchants

However, ExportFeed allows you to keep your product feed file updated on your server with the Automatic Feed Update Schedule Interval even for the merchants which allow the File Upload method only.

Direct Products Upload: What is it?

If your eCommerce is connected to the merchant like Amazon using the API connection provided by ExportFeed plugin or app, then you can select the product list and directly upload them to the merchant. This adds the benefit of regularly updating your products on the marketplaces unlike the file upload method.

 I want to know how to get the feed to upload to Facebook so I can start to run dynamic ads

 In such case, you can ask for feed URL to the client and the feed URL can be found in manage feed section. The feed will open in the browser tab in case of XML feed. You can view source feed and check attributes like price, title, description, link, category, availability. Brand, MPN, etc. if they are available, you can ask them to try uploading and in case of any error, report back to us with errors.

1. How can we upload feed to Facebook?

Here is the link to check to work with Facebook feed

I really need help setting up ExportFeed.

You can check the documentation link here

And also here are faqs 

You can also contact us for  a personalized demo.

How we help for Feed Setup with personalized demo?

When you schedule a personalized demo, we invite you to share your screen and create the type of product feed that you need for your desired merchant. Please note that we offer a 1 time free feed setup even if you are using trial plan of ExportFeed.

Our products work to connect two different external systems in order to improve your sales and we need to continually work on our products to keep up with both systems and their updates and changes. Two systems that we need to keep up with:

1. The platform that your eCommerce site is developed.

2. The merchant that you send your product feeds.

3. With the subscription payment and automatic renewal only we are able to provide you uninterrupted service.

Due to the feed requirements and even occasional glitches in the systems, data feed may not perform as expected and you get error reports. This issue needs to be addressed and we’re always there to take care and solve those issues.

Some of the merchants have specific feed requirements and sometimes you may have specific requirements. Our support team will work to help you meet those.

Why aren’t the product feeds saved?

Sometimes when the plugin is installed or updated, you might encounter issue with feeds not being saved. Such error occurs when the feed table is not created or updated properly. In such case:

• Deactivate the plugin once and re- activate it again.
• If the re-activation doesn’t help, please contact us.

Also, check Technical Requirements to configure your system for the plugin.

Please follow this and generate new feeds easily. In case the problem is still there ,  reach out to us for more help.

Good question, reader!

Other than the fact that we think we offer a pretty sweet product, here are some other things you might want to consider:

1. With our product there is ONE dashboard to view ALL of your products on EVERY platform you have your products listed on;
2. Our Shopping Cart Product Exporter takes all the manual work out of adding your products to other merchants’ sites;
3. Whenever you add new products to your site, it’s automatically uploaded to every merchant you’re linked up with! (no seriously, it’s almost magical);
4. You will be able to see how your products are faring in different markets;
5. We are probably the coolest keeners you’ll deal with and will help you every step of the way.

So don’t waste any more time dealing with this shopping cart and that shopping cart and connecting this to that. Order ExportFeed now and let us do the work for you, or if you want to do a free trial, start your trial now.

And don’t worry – once you decide we are the coolest thing since sliced bread, you won’t lose all of the product information you’ve got on all of these online merchants! We said we’ve got your back and everything will stay where it is!

To put it simply, The Shopping Cart Product Exporter (ExportFeed) takes your products and adds them to major online merchants so that when someone does a search for your product on that site (e.g. Amazon), it will now show up there!

To explain a little further, our exporter takes your existing shopping cart, with all of your products’ information, and produces an ‘export’ data feed. This data feed is then sync’d or uploaded to other online merchants so that your products will show up in THEIR search engine.