Types of delimiters that are supported:
Format | Delimiter |
TXT/TSV | Use a tab delimiter to separate your product catalog fields. Newlines 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 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
impact.com currently supports the text-based versions (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. 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.
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.
Impact currently supports .TXT and .CSV file versions of Connexity's product catalogs. After generating your product catalog, you can upload your file to impact.com.
Impact supports .TXT, .CSV, .PSV, and XML versions of CJ Affiliate's product catalogs. 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.
impact.com supports .TXT, .CSV, .PSV, and XML versions of your custom-formatted product catalog.
View the Custom Format file fields. Ensure you are looking at the Custom Format tab by selecting it at the bottom of the screen.
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.
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.