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Product Filters
Product filters section mostly allows you to filter out products you don't want in the feed, but also replace values generated with Columns Map definition. Allow Out of Stock This filter is applied to standalone simple products or configurable products. Assoc...
Product Options
Current version of the feed extension supports Custom Options for Simple products, and not for complex products like configurable or grouped. This section is handy when your catalog has apparels that hold size or color properties as product Custom Options, whi...
Configurable Products
How to add associated products (see Fig 8.5) This option specifies how configurable associated items will be processed. It has three options: Only parent / No associated products No parent product / Only associated products Both types - parent product and ass...
Grouped Products
How to add associated products (see Fig 8.6) This option specifies how items of grouped products will be processed. It has three options: Only parent / No sub-items No parent product / Only sub-items Both types - parent and sub-items In order for this option t...
Bundle Products
How to add option products (see Fig 8.7) This setting dictates how items that make up the bundle will be processed into the feed. Has the following options: Only parent / no sub-item No parent / only sub-item Both types / parent and all sub-items Most of the t...
Shipping
The configuration section fine tunes the output of Shipping directive from Columns Map. Make sure you add a column called "shipping" and map it to the Shipping directive. The options here help on constructing the output format required by marketplace provider....
Run Schedule
Run schedule helps you generate your feed daily to keep your products up to date with the marketplace provider. In order for the schedule to work, your server needs to have the cron.php set. Check Installation & upgrades for details. You may generate the feed ...
FTP Uploads
FTP accounts defined here are used to upload the feed file whenever it completes to an account created with a marketplace provider. Uploads happen based on the Run Schedule or whenever you generate the feed manually. (see Fig 9.0) In order for the uploads to w...
Generating the feed
Feeds will generate automatically based on their Run Schedule, but if you need to manually generate a feed you could use the Run Now button in the feeds grid. Manual run Go to feeds management screen and click on Run Now in the actions column, and the feed wil...
Testing and Troubleshooting
By Product Troubleshooting by product is the fastest way to correct output: Test output of a product Correct configuration and start over. Full Feed To track down issues through your full feed: Generate the feed Check feed logs and feed output by accessing th...
Cloning a feed setup
Cloning a feed would help to create a copy of one of your feeds which you can then modify. This would save time in creating similar feeds in terms of feed configuration. The type of the feed cannot be modified on a clone. Cloning can be a handy tool in the fol...
Migration to another magento
Easy migration is useful to push live feeds that where tested on a staging magento instance. Destination magento instance should have the same feed extension version installed. To check hte extension version navigate to Admin > System > Configuration > Ro...
General Configuration
Store View Product information may vary by store view, and setting the store view here will make the feed to pull product information in corresponding store context. If you have multiple stores targeting different countries and languages, you may want to cr...
How-to articles
Title Creator Modified Setting up products with Minimum Advertised Pricing Dorin Mirulescu Jan 29, 2016 Use pricing from simple child products Dorin Mirulescu Jan 29, 2016 Set up stores and feeds for multiple countries Dorin Mirulescu Jan 29, 2016 Migration to...
Use pricing from simple child products
If you use configurable products and have different pricing for each option, then you might want to set prices on the Simple products associated with your configurables. By default, Magento will use the price you set on the configurable product, for all pr...
Setting up products with Minimum Advertised Pricing
It's recommended that MSR price display is set in magento to the real price aside msrp on the pages. The most appropriate option to do that is by setting Display Actual Price to gestures on your products. Step-by-step guide In Columns Map, set the price column...
Set up stores and feeds for multiple countries
Magento supports the very useful feature of creating multiple stores that target different countries. You can setup storeviews that have a different language or currency, while re-using the same product catalog, categories and promotions, even the same custome...
Detaching feed generation from magento cron
Reasons to detach: No heartbeat detected message on feeds grid. This is a sign that magento cron fails to schedule the cronjob, as result feed is not generated. Large catalogs with other backend cron tasks. It may take hours for the cron to generate and this ...