Template Data Feed exports your MIVA Merchant product data in the basic file formats required by various services for inclusion in their ecommerce search directories. This MIVA Merchant plugin module works with both MAUI and OpenUI, and no editing of script files is required.

Features:

• Creates the data feed flat file from within the MIVA Merchant admin.

  • Frequent, no hassle submissions keep your data current
  • Eliminates the need to copy product and category databases from the server to your PC to produce a flat file export with software such as MS Excel
  • Uses your data as it exists within admin at the moment it is run

• Offers control to exclude/include the export of specific products (by code, price, weight)

• Offers control over category insertion

  • Exclude/include export from specific categories
  • Include a table for each export that matches your category codes to the shopping index's category system (no need to edit data into each product's custom fields to hold the shopping index category)

• If you are using MIVA's custom fields module, the additional field data can be used to populate additional fields and/or added to the description. It can be used in Merchant versions 4.14 and newer. No need to purchase an additional fields module since the customfld.mvc is free.

• Removes HTML code/tags from your product descriptions

• Includes features to eliminate timeouts when generating the data feed export of large numbers of products

• Exports to your documents directory rather than your data directory for ease of capture and transmittal

• Allows creation of directory style and search friendly links in the feed to match those in your store

• Template layout allows you to set the product data in the order you want it... You can even create xml feeds like
  <name>Widget</name>
  <price>9.95</price>
  or
  list your specials in a specific category for RSS output by this module

• In Merchant 4.14-4.2x with OpenUI, you have the option of parsing OpenUI tokens in the product descriptions if they can be parsed in admin (many can but some may not)

• The module comes with three (Froogle, Yahoo, Shopzilla) formats already configured

  • Minor changes are needed for your url or search friendly links
  • You'll need to create custom product fields and assign values in them for the Shopzilla, Yahoo and many other feeds
  • Many ecommerce search services are not free, so you'll need to create accounts and pay applicable fees prior to feed submissions (Froogle is free)
  • You can even use this module to submit bulk uploads to the free Google Base which lets you define the columns you are going to submit

• Additional capabilities...

  • Rearrange fields to fit the format of the shopping search index
  • Include custom fields not found in the standard MIVA Merchant products database (year, actors, director, etc.)
  • Include category matching so if the index uses a different or additional categorization, you can meet their requirements (Yahoo uses your category and theirs, Shopzilla has their own category ID system)

Steps for Using Services:

Versions: ?
4.14-4.24, 5x

User Interfaces: ?
MMUI/OpenUI

License is: per domain

Developer:
Emporium Plus