SingleFeed Blog

Seems that Google Base is having sporadic FTP issues. We’ve notifited Google and this has been reported in the forums:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/base/thread?tid=502e0df69b2d17a3&hl=en

These problems pop up now and again with all the shopping engines. Know that your feeds will be processed by Google as soon as the problem has been addressed.

Amazon is hosting 2 webinars next week which all merhcants should pay attention to.   One of them is for Product Ads, which SingleFeed recently added as a supported engine.  If you wanted to learn more about Product Ads, here’s a perfect opportunity.  The other featured webinar is for Selling On Amazon.  This is a service which SingleFeed does not currently support, but we definitiely recognize how important the channel is for merchants…

Amazon Product Ads: March 25, 2009 10-10:30am

Learn how to advertise your products to Amazon.com customers and drive traffic to your website.

Product Ads is a cost-per-click advertising program that puts your products in front of millions of Amazon.com customers. Simply upload your product catalog and set your bids and budget. Amazon will display your ads in highly targeted placements. When customers are interested in buying your product they click through to your Web site and purchase directly from you.

Selling On Amazon: March 24, 2009 10-10:45am

Just getting started Selling on Amazon? In this webinar get tips and tricks, and learn where to find information on the following:

Account Set Up: Entering account information, Getting paid, and Creating Seller Information pages

Products: Using the Excel template for bulk uploads, How to enter the right data for your product listings, Navigating the classification guides, Uploading to Seller Central, and How to review the processing reports

Processing Your Orders: Orders reports, Shipping confirmation , Order cancellation,  Adjustments (refunds)

How to Manage Your Listings Information: Input Options, Data Requirements, Classification, Category Nuances and Dealing With Error Messages

Resources: Getting Started Guide, Listing Recommendation Tool, Tutorials andSeller Support

Today we are announcing our data feed support for X-Cart merchants by unveiling our SingleFeed X-Cart add-on. We’ve seen strong adoption of our SingleFeed Export Extension for Magento, and a few folks are starting to implement our SingleFeed osCommerce add-on as well.  Our first version of the X-Cart add-on supports X-Cart Gold stores on versions 4.1.9 and 4.2. Stores using other versions of X-Cart Gold can modify our add-on to work with their specific version, thus enabling many merchants an easier way to list products on the comparison shopping engines. While there are existing shopping engine feed add-ons for X-Cart called “feeders” by the community, there is no all-in-one data feed export add-on like SingleFeed’s. Instead of having to install, configure and maintain one add-on for each comparison shopping engine, merchants can install SingleFeed’s add-on and automatically submit to 18 different shopping engines.

Contact us today for more information about our SingleFeed X-Cart add-on.

About X-Cart
X-Cart shopping cart software is trusted by thousands of successful business owners worldwide. Web-based administrator area and installation wizard make setup and maintenance of the shopping cart as easy as point and click. No PHP or other programming knowledge is required to set up and run a world class online store. X-Cart is template based software with open source code. This means you can modify the look & feel and functionality of the shopping cart the way you need should you require any business specific features. The software has no logical limitations on the number of products. The code is optimized for smooth performance with up to 20 000 products. Due to the fact that performance depends on server configuration special hardware and software optimization allows X-Cart to run with up to 500 000 products. All of the above makes X-Cart one of the best shopping cart systems in the world.

- Ryan Douglas

SingleFeed is excited to officially announce the addition of two new shopping engines for our merchants to submit to and the addition of an existing shopping engine to our SingleFeed Starter plan.  Yesterday we activated Amazon Product Ads and Microsoft Live Search Cashback.  Amazon Product Ads will be available to our SingleFeed Gold and Premium clients.  Microsoft Live Search Cashback will be available on all SingleFeed plans.  We also added Sortprice, one of our existing shopping engines, to the SingleFeed Starter plan.

With these additions, our SingleFeed Gold and Premium clients can now submit to 17 of the most popular and profitable shopping engines and our SingleFeed Starter clients can submit to 6 low risk (free, cost-per-sale, or fixed cost) shopping engines as a means to ease in to the comparison shopping arena.

We take the addition of new engines seriously, and don’t activate the engine until we have the proper resources on the shopping engine’s side as well as our own. Maintaining close relationships with our shopping engine partners ensures our merchants have the best possible experience. As always, we’d love to hear from you if you have suggestions for additional shopping engines we should support.

About Amazon Product Ads
Amazon Product Ads is an advertising program that puts your products in front of millions of Amazon.com customers.  Your ads will be displayed in highly targeted placements throughout the Amazon.com site and, when customers are interested in buying your product, they click through to your website and purchase the product directly from you.  Unlike selling your product directly on the Amazon.com website, the Product Ads program utilizes a familiar CPC model, allowing you to advertise on Amazon but still maintain ownership of the checkout process once a potential customer clicks through on your ad.

Click here for more information on Amazon Product Ads.

About Microsoft Live Search Cashback
Live Search cashback is quickly becoming Microsoft’s flagship e-commerce property.  The program rewards consumers with a cash back rebate for purchases and gives advertisers the opportunity to sell on a cost-per-acquisition (CPA) basis.  Live Search cashback allows you to set the percentage of cash back you want to offer (essentially a commission) per category or per product so that you have a guaranteed ROI on every sale.

Click here for more information on Microsoft Live Search cashback.

About Sortprice
Sortprice has been operating for over five years, offering consumers a clean and easy to use interface and merchants great exposure and a unique advertising program.  Sortprice offers both a Basic and Enhanced program for merchants.  It is free to list on the Basic program and a small percentage of your products are selected and displayed in the Sortprice.com search results.  On the Enhanced program, all of your products are listed and you can receive an unlimited number of clicks at a low, flat rate per month.

Click here for more information on Sortprice.

Ryan Douglas