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TEMPLATE DATA FEED
Emporium Plus > Software > New for Merchant 5 Emporium Plus > Software > Export Modules Emporium Plus > Software > Productivity Modules
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Code: 1AA00220
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Latest Version: 5.053
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Template Data Feed exports your product and category data
in the file formats required for multiple data feed
submissions (Google Base (Froogle), Google Sitemap XML,
Yahoo, Shopzilla, etc.) for inclusion in their ecommerce
search directories and shopping portals. Improve your
search engine optimization (SEO).
This Miva Merchant plugin module works with both MMUI and
OpenUI. No mmui.mv edits required. Like our other
modules, this module is licensed by domain, so if you
have multiple stores in a single domain, you only need
one license for all the stores in that domain.
- Create the datafeed flat files directly from your 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
- Exclude/include export of specific products by code, price, weight
- 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)
- Include custom field data. 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.
- Convert your store's currency to the target
country's data feed requirement (Merchant 5x)
- Removes html from your product descriptions
- No timeout issues when generating the data feed export of large numbers of products
- Show export status in a progress bar (version 5x)
- Exports to your documents directory rather than your
data directory for ease of capture and transmittal
- Optionally send a copy of the file as an email attachment (version 5x)
- Create 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
- Create xml feeds like
<name>Widget</name>
<price>9.95</price>
- List your specials in a specific category for RSS output
- Parse OpenUI tokens. 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)
- Five pre-defined formats already configured in Merchant 5x version:
Google Base (Froogle), Yahoo, Shopzilla, Sitemap XML
(for Google, Microsoft, Yahoo), Pricegrabber
- Ultimate feed submission tool, you can create unlimited feeds based on your search indexes' specifications fairly easy.
- 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
- Improve search engine optimization (seo) by creating a Google Sitemap XML file
- Some of our example feeds in this store are
Froogle (Google base)
Yahoo
Shopzilla
Google Sitemap
- 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
Apply to the search directory, e.g.
Google,
Yahoo, Shopzilla,
PriceGrabber,
and others to be included in their program
Install this module and run it
FTP/upload resulting flat file to the applicable search indexes
Once you get the customer to your site, use our
Power Search module for your site's internal search
tool. It enhances site navigation far beyond the built in
search mechanism.
You spend a lot of time and money with hosting, entering data into your store, and improving the look and feel of your pages. Why would you not want customers to find your site via search engines or shopping portals? You could submit your home page to them and hope all the pages get included in the search index. For better results, you need to submit datafeeds or hire someone else to submit them for you. Take a look at the comparison between the built in features and the alternatives. The answer is obvious, you need to improve your external search index interface. Most of the time you will find the Template Data Feed module does everything you need to increase traffic through well placed search index insertions. For the cost of dinner for two, you can make a significant improvement in your store's bottom line. If you have a few minutes a month to run the feeds and upload them, I doubt you'll need an expensive submission service.
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Built In
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Template Data Feed
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Submission Service
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Price
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free
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$40
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$50-$75 per month
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Sitemap HTML
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yes
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yes
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no
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Datafeed From Your Admin
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no
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yes
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requires export module
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Limit Export By Code, Price, Weight
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no
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yes
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depends on export module
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Control Over Category Insertion
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no
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yes
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depends on export module
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Custom Field Data Included
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no
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yes
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depends on export module
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Convert Currency To Datafeed Spec
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no
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yes
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depends on export module
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Remove HTML From Description
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no
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yes
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depends on export module
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Feed Timeout Avoidance
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no
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yes
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depends on export module
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Automatic Exports
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no
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yes *
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depends on export module
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Export To Documents Directory
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yes
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yes
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depends on export module
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Send Export As Email Attachment
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n/a
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yes
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depends on export module
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Create Short Links
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yes
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yes
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depends on export module
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XML and RSS Feeds
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no
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yes
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depends on export module
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Multiple Pre-defined Feed Formats
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n/a
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yes
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yes
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Licensed By
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store
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domain
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store
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* requires cron and a long server timeout setting in large stores
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Online overview
and initial setup instructions for our MIVA Merchant modules. Compressed screen shots below are expanded on the install docs 4.14-4.24
and
5.x. See the install docs for
a list of available tokens.
| Feed names and last date run displayed in admin |
| Configuration settings can customize each export |
| Export xml (like Google sitemap) or one product per line txt feeds |
| Exclude specific products from the export |
| Exclude specific categories and match your categories to the shopping index categories |
| Report finish with convenient link for easy transfer to your PC without need for FTP |
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Average Customer Rating
  
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Number of Raters: 1
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Reviewer: Bernard in Lawrenceville, United States 08/17/2007
This is an excellent module. We utilize this tool to generate data feeds for several shopping sites as well as a datafeed for our affiliates. I read about many people that struggle creating datafeeds for their products but this module really simplifies the process and is very flexible.
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