Many retail brands will upload and maintain Product Catalogs, which are data feed files that list their products and metadata about those products. You can view product catalog details and download them through the impact.com platform, via FTP or API. Learn more about the products in the catalogs and how you can promote them in Find & Promote Products from the Product Marketplace.
From the top navigation bar, select Content → Product Catalogs.
To see product catalogs, you'll need to have joined a brand that has uploaded product catalogs.
Below the Product Catalogs heading are filters. Adjust the filters according to what you're looking for.
Hover over a table row and from the
[More] menu:Select View Details for more information about the catalog, like the number of products, file size, and when it was last updated.
Select Download Advertiser Format to download the Product Catalog as the brand uploaded it. See the Brand submitted formats section below for more information on these possible formats.
Select Download Impact Format to download the impact.com standardized version of this product catalog.
Product Catalogs over 1 GB in size can be downloaded via FTP, or by accessing the Product Catalog via API.
To download via FTP, you'll need an FTP client (like FileZilla or Cyberduck) to connect to impact.com's FTP server.
From the top navigation bar, select Content → Product Catalogs.
Find a product catalog that you want to download, hover over the option, and select
[More] → View Details.From the Download via FTP section, select Email Product Catalog FTP Username and Password to receive login credentials for the FTP server.
You'll need Technical Settings account permissions to receive the FTP credentials via email.
Open the email to see the FTP server address and your login credentials. In your FTP client, use the FTP link as the server address, along with the credentials to connect to impact.com’s FTP server.
Once connected, you can browse the server directory and copy the Product Catalogs onto your system.
Product catalogs downloaded via FTP will be in Impact Format.
Accessing Product Catalogs via API is an advanced feature that requires enabling API Access. Refer to our Partner API - Catalog Resource for details on how to use the API to retrieve product catalogs.