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How to connect a Product Feed to Alvas

How to connect a Product Feed to Alvas

Step 1 - Go to integrations

In Alvas, go to Settings -> Market Integrations or click here.

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Click on "Product Feed".

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And add the URL to your Product Feed.

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Now click "Add Integration".

When you do that, we will validate the feed and fetch an example product from the feed, which will be used for mapping in a second. The process of validating the feed can take several minutes if there are more than 100.000 products in the feed.

Step 2 - Map fields

Now, we've found all the fields you have in your feed, and fetched the first product as a sample product.

With that, you should map these fields to our structure.

On the Product ID, click "Select feed field".

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That opens a dropdown, where you need to find the field that corresponds to the Product ID.

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In my case, i select the field called "product_id". If your data is structured differently, it might be called "id", "g:id", "PRODUCT_ID" or something else.

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Then do the same for the "Name". In my case it's called "product_name".

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Same goes for Image URL. In my case it's called "product_image_url".

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You continue this process until all the datapoints has been mapped.

You can see your progress and the data that you've selected on the right side. This is based on an example product from your feed.

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Finally, you should click "Save Mapping".

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Step 3 - Information about Product Feeds

We sync the feed every 24 hours at midnight Copenhagen time.

The fields you need to map are (* indicates required)

  • *Product ID (text)
  • *Name (text)
  • *Image Url (url)
  • *Price (number)
  • Compare At Price (number & higher value than Price)
  • *URL (url)
  • Available (true/false)
  • *Description (text)

Extra fields such as Discount Amount and Discount Percentage are automatically calculated based on the Compare At Price and Price.

Currency is added based on what market you've connected the feed to.

For a multi-market structure in Alvas, please ensure that the Product ID is a global identifier, meaning that the ID of a given product is the same across markets.