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Adding a feed
Select the feed type From Rocket Shopping Feeds screen, click on the arrow next to Create New Feed button and select the feed type. (see Fig 8.1) Choosing the feed type, it fills in with predefined template, but any product feed can be configured, starting fro...
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...
Optimizing feed output
The feed's quality depends on the quality of product data. To make sure that data in the feed is accurate, you'll have to adjust feed configuration to match your catalog. Use the topics below to get details on what configuration options are: Columns Map Categ...
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. Changing the Store View here, would require you to review the Categories Map definition, as c...
Columns Map
Feed Columns allows you to map any column to any product attributes, or to directives implementing special logic meant to follow marketplace specifications. Please check with the marketplace feed specifications to understand what the feed columns should be. Th...
Categories Map
The Categories Map widget acts as both a product filter and a way of mapping categories and type values on products. You should Save Page before configuring categories here. Categories will not show for new feed. At the same time, if you change the Store View...
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...
Custom Options
This section is handy when your catalog has apparels that hold size or color properties as product Custom Options, which may have different pricing or different SKUs. (see Fig 14.1) In order for your custom options to be added in the feed, you'll have to use t...
Configurable Products
How to add associated products 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 associated produc...
Grouped Products
How to add associated products 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 to work, groupe...
Bundle Products
How to add option products 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 times you would...
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 set. Check Installation & upgrades for details. You may generate the feed more...
Uploads
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 20.1) In order for the uploads to work...
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...
How-to articles
Title Creator Modified Detaching feed generation from magento cron Dorin Mirulescu Jul 23, 2025 Common Questions Dorin Mirulescu Jun 02, 2021 Customize product names Dorin Mirulescu May 06, 2021
Detaching feed generation from magento cron
Reasons to detach: Magento cronjob is not running, or feed fails to generate for whatever reason. Large catalogs with other backend cron tasks. It may take hours for the cron to generate and this would freeze all other backend tasks for that time. Steps to d...