Product Data Feed System
More and more people have been asking when will the Paid On Results product data feed system go live. We are looking at 1st week in December for it going live, ideally we would like to have had it in place before Christmas but most important to us was that we brought out something that was good and that worked, this after all is a long term project.
We listened to all the feedback we have been given both directly and on this forum, as it’s getting closer to launch we thought we would share some of the details here. The system it’s self is working great, we finally picked a name for it today, and all what’s really left is the demo site of how it works and putting together some support information.
With the new system we are able to have ready made content units that constantly keep themselves up to date without any merchant input needed. A new one stop location for people who just like their feeds the old fashioned way but most exciting you will be able to do lots of new neat things that you may not have had the technical know how to do before.
Our product feed will require no technical experience or knowledge, any affiliate can customise a feed to fit into any web site, or enable you to create a whole web site around the product feeds. You will be able to use our feeds though JavaScript or an IFrame, or call the feed from any scripting language.
If you are using Perl, PHP or ASP, no non-standard modules or add-ons are required. With PHP you can integrate your feed with just 1 line of code. Our feeds work though a simple URL, just fetch the URL from a script and output the contents without any other work if you’re using a template.
Our template system allows total control over the design, your not limited to any layout or options, just use your own HTML to create the design and layout you want for your site.
Or if you just want a CSV or XML feed then you can. Any number of templates can be added, and more than one template can be used per feed.
If using templates, your feed is given to you in a instantly usable format, just output the contents!
You can sort, search and query the feed just by adding options to the URL - this works whatever method you use to fetch the feed. Each product image is available in 6 different sizes, and you can select which image size you want.
Our "SQL Like Queries" allows you to have more control over the products, if you want to only show products which are between £10 and £50 in price, contain the word "Football" in the product name and appear in the category "toys" then you can, just enter the query in the URL along with any other options, like sort options.
You can search your feed; just add the keyword to the URL. If you’re using a template then the results are formatted as per your template and ready to use.
Let’s say you wanted to create a web site which used products from a merchant, you wanted to show 10 products per page, using a short description, and the visitor could then click a link to go to a page with a longer description. This may sound complex, but with our product feeds it would just require you to design 2 templates, one for the listing page and one for the "more information" page. You would need to create a small script in your chosen language to fetch the right pages or use our IFrame or JavaScript method.
- Sort method, you can sort on any field within the feed
- You can show only products added after a time/date you give
- Use products from selected category or multiple categories, across different merchants
- Search products and output the results as per your template or CSV/XML
- Complete template control, no limiting features or restrictions
Coming soon.
Last edited by Supercod; 18-11-04 at 10:18 PM.
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