[BigB]

I'm interested to know how others go about categorising products from data feeds on your site.

I have been allocating my own category to a merchant's data feed, or splitting a feed between my own categories, but the work involved in maintaining this is becoming a headache.

Do you use the categories within the data feed (if any!)? Or do you keep a lookup table between the merchant's categories and your own? Or do you allocate your own category?

Do you standardise on the AW or the TD categories? Is one better than the other?

I'm considering trying to adopt the categories from one of the networks, and adding default categories for feeds which don't have them. Anyone had much succes with this?