What to do with the Mobile Phones Feeds?

[rex55]

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Hi,

this is my first post here so please excuse me if this is not the right place or I've missed something.
I need help with the AW and AF mobile phone feeds. It's seems to me that there's some very big secret known from just a few people and no one is willing to share the knowledge - how to parse / manage these feeds and create a comparison table! I've been looking for a tutorial on AF and AW's websites - nothing, there's absolutely nothing available anywhere! There must be someone who knows what to do with these feeds and I'm ready to pay for the service.
Please don't offer to use m4e or urmob schemes - this is not what I need, on the opposite I need to achieve this result, but I'm not willing to share my traffic/commissions with anybody. I'd prefer to pay upfront.
I will be very happy if anybody helps me to solve this problem.

[jonsp]

It's not so much a secret
1/ Get a list of the tariffs for each network - minutes/texts/cost
2/ map each tariff to each merchants name for that tariff, they're all different
3/ get a list of all mobiles
4/ map each model to each merchants description, again all different
5/ each deal consists of tariff + phone + phone cost (usually free) + gift + cashback + rental discount. Figure out how to map each merchants description of a deal into a standard format.

The hard part is every merchant has a different format in their feeds so the time is in figuring out how to match them all up. That done you need to update your system every 2 or 3 days as new models/tariffs are released - it's an ongoing job

This is why urmob/m4e are so popular. Nobody likes giving away traffic but it's probably cheaper than the alternative

[rex55]

It sounds easier to say than to do it, but I'll give it a try. Thank you very much for the advice

[SimonQuick]

Hi there,

I've got a couple of documents which may help you.

First up is a feed parsing document which guides you through how to integrate a feed into your website - its buy.at focused but it will give you the gist on how to work with Affiliate Window feeds too.

Secondly is a document on our new CF-M feeds which we've built. These are unique feeds to the buy.at network and due to their strict structure, will allow you to easily integrate feeds into your site from the likes of Orange, O2, Virgin Mobile, 3 and T-Mobile. More information on these in the 2nd document.

You can grab the documents from the following locations:

http://files.perfiliate.com/solutions/BuyAtParseProductFeedsGuide.pdf
http://files.perfiliate.com/solutions/Product.Feeds.CF-M.pdf

Any questions give me a shout - simon.quick@buy.at / simon.quick@digitalwindow.com

Thanks
Simon

[rex55]

That's what I've been looking for, thank you very much, Simon!