Grommet ProductFeed

Magento module for publishing product feeds to LinkShare, MediaForge and other advertisers.

Supported Publishers:

• LinkShare (FTP)
• MediaForge (FTP)
• Rakuten Marketplace (formerly Buy.com) (FTP)
• Tid.al (JSON)

Features

On a configurable basis, product feeds are generated for each enabled publisher and are either uploaded via FTP to the publisher or made available in a public Magento directory for download.

LinkShare

• Cookie tracking for LinkShare-referred customers, with order success pixel rendering so LinkShare can be credited with a referral
• Order crediting exclusions by email and customer group
• Processing of refunded orders, to get reimbursed from LinkShare for your refunds

Rakuten Marketplace

• Separate product and inventory feeds

Installation

Copy repository contents in a Magento root directory. Clear cache and navigate to System -> Configuration -> Product Feeds

Configuration

Navigate to System -> Configuration -> Product Feeds

• Enable [publisher] Feed: Enable or disable scheduled generation of the publisher's feed.
• Filter Feed Based on Product Attribute: To control which products are in a given feed, a new product attribute is added, labeled 'Available In Product Feeds'. If Filter Feed Based on Product Attribute is set to Yes, a product will only appear in the feed if a given publisher is selected. If set to No, all eligible products will be included in the feed.
• Cron Schedule: Cron expression for feed generation. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#CRON_expression
• Feed Image Width: Width for image URLs generated in the feed.
• Feed Image Height: Height for image URLs generated in the feed.

Customization

Due to the unique nature of each store's catalog, this is not a plug-n-play module. Instead, it requires modification to map attributes in each publisher's feed to those on your products.

For example, the LinkShare feed can accept a 'brand' attribute. In one store, the associated product attribute might be called 'manufacturer'. XML mapping are used to make these associations.

To start customizing the feed, first extend the ProductFeed module as YourNamespace_ProductFeed. See this Module creation article for more info.

See the config.xml file that comes with the module. Each publisher has an attribute list in Magento's config at xpath global/productfeed/[publisher]:

<productfeed>
	<linkshare translate="label" module="productfeed">
		<title>LinkShare</title>
		<attributes>
			<name><!-- feed attribute label -->
				<map>*</map> <!-- product attribute label. use '*' if it is the same as the feed attribute -->
				<required /> <!-- only products with this attribute will be included in the feed -->
			</name>
			<brand>
				<map>manufacturer</map> <!-- example where the feed attribute is different from the product attribute -->
			</brand>
		</attributes>
	</linkshare>
</productfeed>

Test Feed Generation

• LinkShare, product feed: http://www.yourstore.com/productfeed/process/linkshare
• LinkShare, refund feed: http://www.yourstore.com/productfeed/process/linkshareRefund
• MediaForge: http://www.yourstore.com/productfeed/process/mediaforge
• Rakuten Marketplace, product feed: http://www.yourstore.com/productfeed/process/rakutenProduct
• Rakuten Marketplace, inventory feed: http://www.yourstore.com/productfeed/process/rakutenInventory
• Tid.al: http://www.yourstore.com/productfeed/process/tidal

Feed files are stored in [magento_root]/var/productfeed before being uploaded or published. Feed files older than 14 days are automatically cleaned up.

Magento Developer mode must be enabled for manual feed file generation.

Requirements

• Magento 1.6+
• PHP 5.3+