There are a couple of things I want to point out on datafeed changes we made…
1. We increased the allowable upload limit on the Merchant end from 8 per month to 31 per month for all Merchants with standard size datafeeds.
2. We added a “Feature Utilization” graph to the Datafeed Search. This tool allows you a quick view into how well the Datafeed is organized as well as how many of the “optional” features are being used. The green dots show you estimated utilization of the following datafeed fields:
- Custom Fields
- Merchant Category and SubCategory
- unique images and thumbnails
- search terms
- part number
- UPC
- ISBN
- MerchantGroup and MerchantSubGroup
Here’s a quick screenshot to give you an idea…
Pamela A. Jackson says
June 17, 2010 at 8:19 amThis is great for the merchant. How does this affect the affiliate? Or does it?
Jed says
June 17, 2010 at 3:05 pmThanks for the great info!
Geno Prussakov says
June 21, 2010 at 8:50 pmLOVE the fact that the number of allowable feed updates has been raised from 8 to 31. WTG, SaS.
The “Feature Utilization” tool (I take it’s for affiliates?) sounds awesome too.
Brian Littleton says
June 29, 2010 at 5:50 pmPamela,
The effects are that Merchants now have the ability to update more often, so you may want to check for updates more often. On the “Green dots” it is just an informational thing that hopefully will help you determine which datafeeds are the best fit for you.