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File Formats for Product Catalogs

Types of delimiters that are supported:

Format

Delimiter

TXT/TSV

Use a tab delimiter to separate your product catalog fields. Newlines external-link-alt-solid.svg are not supported in this delimiter text format. Submitting text fields with newlines will result in errors processing those records.

CSV

Use a comma-separated delimiter to separate your product catalog fields. Newlines external-link-alt-solid.svg are not supported in this delimiter text format. Submitting text fields with newlines will result in errors processing those records.

PSV

Use a pipe delimiter to separate your product catalog fields.

A Product Catalog is a data feed that holds a list of your products and their metadata. impact.com currently supports 6 catalog formats:

  • Google Merchant Center

  • eBay Commerce Merchant Center

  • Connexity Merchant Center

  • CJ Affiliate by Conversant

  • Custom format

  • Open format

Google Merchant Center format

impact.com currently supports the text-based versions external-link-alt-solid.svg (that is tab-delimited TXT files, and not comma-delimited CSV files), as well as RSS and Atom variants of Google Merchant's XML files external-link-alt-solid.svg. After generating your product catalog with Google Merchant, you can upload your file to impact.com.

There are two fields you can add to your Google Merchant product catalog after the file is generated.

Field

Description

Format

Example

Required

productbid

The bid value of the product

Numeric

2.00

No

manufacturing cost

The product's manufacturing cost. This amount excludes any payment to partners

Numeric

30.00

No

eBay Commerce Merchant Center format

impact.com currently supports both text-based and .XML files for eBay Commerce. After generating your product catalog, you can upload your file to impact.com.

View the eBay Commerce Merchant file fields. Ensure you are looking at the eBay Commerce Merchant tab by selecting it at the bottom of the screen.

Not all fields in the Google Sheet are required for your eBay Commerce file. If you want to upload a .CSV file, replace the space in the Field column with underscores.

Connexity Merchant Center format

impact.com currently supports .TXT and .CSV file versions of Connexity's product catalogs external-link-alt-solid.svg. After generating your product catalog, you can upload your file to impact.com.

CJ Affiliate by Conversant format

impact.com supports .TXT, .CSV, .PSV, and .XML versions of CJ Affiliate's product catalogs external-link-alt-solid.svg. Find the heading Product Feed Specifications: Shopping (Google Format) to learn how to set up your product catalog using CJ Affiliate by Conversant. After generating your product catalog, you can upload your file to impact.com.

Custom format

impact.com supports .TXT, .CSV, .PSV, and .XML versions of your custom-formatted product catalog.

There are also custom fields you can add to your product catalog. Select Add Field, then select one of the following fields from the drop-down menu to add it to your product catalog.

Example

name, id, url, manufacturingcost, mycurrency, mycategory
ACME Bird Seed, 1234567, http://example.com/products, 20, USD, Accessories

Ensure your field names match the names you've configured for your custom upload format.

View the Custom Format file fields for a full list of fields. Ensure you are looking at the Custom Format tab by selecting it at the bottom of the screen.

Open format

An Open format is for catalogs that are not processed as product data in impact.com but allows a brand to distribute product feed files, as is, to their Partners. Please note these are only turned on for specific Brands.

impact.com supports any file format such as .TXT, .CSV, .PSV, and .XML versions of formatted product catalogs.

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