When SingleFeed sends out your data feeds to Google Base (Google Product Search), we send the expiration date in the required ISO 8601 format. In other words, May 30, 2007 becomes 2007-05-30. However, we’ve noticed that when merchants download their SingleFeed, through the wonders of Excel, sometimes the ISO 8601 format is changed back to the English format so when you re-upload, the SingleFeed correction wizard flags the expiration date field as an error.
For those of you uploading a completely new feed, there is no issue. You do not have to include the expiration date as we automatically set it for 30 days from the date of upload.
For those of you who are downloading your SingleFeed and then re-uploading, while we work on taking care of this Excel kink, just delete the 2 Google Base Expiration Date fields before you re-upload. We’ll automatically add the expiration date field back in when we send the feed to Google Base. Of course, you can also select all the dates, right click, click on Format Cells, select Date, then under ‘Locale (Location)’, choose ‘International (ISO)’…but selecting 2 columns and deleting seems a bit easier.
No Login Required @ SingleFeed (Automatic Downloads) May 17th, 2007
An especially useful feature regarding the ability to submit your feed via HTTP or FTP is the ability to enable recurring Auto-Download of your feed information.
When Automatic Download is enabled we check your feed at various times throughout the day. If we determine that there have been changes to your feed since you last submitted to us, we then automatically detect, download, process, and submit your latest product information.
Important: After you have enabled auto-download, you MUST complete one successful feed submission via the Product page interface for the Automatic Download feature to be fully enabled for your account.
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Every time we process new information from your feed you will receive an email notice with results of our Automatic Download.
Coming Soon…
Today, the Auto-download feature results in Replacing your existing product information on SingleFeed with the new Product information stored within the feed you specified. In the near future, you will be able to enable not just download-and-replace, but to synchronize your feed file with the products you have already configured at SingleFeed, with only the necessary changes / updates being submitted to your Active Engines.
Enjoy!
Jeremy Horn
FTP and HTTP your Latest Product Feed to SingleFeed Today May 15th, 2007
Newly released feature at SingleFeed allows all of our members to submit their latest product feeds without any need to login to SingleFeed!
On the Products page, you can select various methodologies of submitting your feed to SingleFeed…
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Via My Computer (your normal form-based upload)
- Via HTTP (just specify a full path to your feed file )
- Via FTP (just specify your login info and path to your feed file)
Now, you can also ask the page to remember your last input information to make each subsequent upload even easier.
Enjoy!
Jeremy Horn
SingleFeed has submitted Your Data Feed… May 15th, 2007
A new, quick, and handy feature has been added to your Profile page at SingleFeed. In the Products overview section of the page, we will always display when all of your data were last submitted to all of your Active Engines
Now, you can easily know when each of the Shopping Engines have received your latest updates and, also, rest assured that EVERY DAY, SingleFeed has submitted your latest, freshest product feed information.
Jeremy Horn
If you change any of your account information with any of the shopping engines, make sure to make the changes on SingleFeed’s Engine page as well.
Thanks!
-brian
Upgrade Complete May 3rd, 2007
Performance and architecture improvements released, including…
- Correction Wizard speed-ups, and
- Improved interaction with all elements and functions of your Products Page (summary, edit, upload, list_).
Thank you.
Jeremy Horn
SingleFeed
SingleFeed Upgrade in Progress May 2nd, 2007
SingleFeed.com is currently performing another system-wide upgrade. You can expect slow responsiveness from the site for the next 24-48 hours while this upgrade is being occurring.
After this service improvement has been completed, you will directly benefit from significantly improved performance (especially speed) of…
- the Correction Wizard, and
- Interaction with all elements and functions of your Products Page (summary, edit, upload, list).
We have also, as part of this release, upgraded our architecture so that no matter how complex an operation another user may be performing at SingleFeed, each member’s activities will have little to no performance impact on any other active member.
Thank you for your patience.
Jeremy Horn