Preparing your product feed

Tapfiliate affiliate tracking software supports the use of product feeds. Product feeds are a great way of supplying product information for your affiliates.

Product feeds have te following requirements:

1. The XML root for the feed should be called ‘items’
   
2. Each item node should be called ‘item’
   
3. The following item properties are supported:
   
   1. id (required)
      
   2. title (required)
      
   3. link (required)
      
   4. description
      
   5. image_link
      
   6. availability
      
   7. price
      
   8. sale_price
      
   9. currency
      
   10. brand
       
   11. product_type
       
   12. gender
       
   13. color
       
   14. size
       
   15. other_1
       
   16. other_2
       
   17. other_3
       
4. Feeds should be served with content type text/xml
   

5. An example feed could look like this:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <items>
   <item>
     <id>
         123
     </id>
     <title>
         V-Neck Shirt
     </title>
     <description>
         It is awesome
     </description>
     <link>
         http://myshop.com/v-neck-shirt/
     </link>
     <image_link>
         https://shirt.com/img/v-neck-shirt.jpg
     </image_link>
     <availability>
         in stock
     </availability>
     <price>
         22.5
     </price>
     <sale_price>
         17.5
     </sale_price>
     <currency>
         USD
     </currency>
     <brand>
         Awesomesauce
     </brand>
     <product_type>
         T-Shirt
     </product_type>
     <gender>
         Male
     </gender>
     <color>
         Blue
     </color>
     <size>
         XXL
     </size>
     <other_1>
         foo
     </other_1>
     <other_2>
         bar
     </other_2>
     <other_3>
         baz
     </other_3>
   </item>
   <item>
      ...
   </item>
   </items>
   

The feeds get updated every hour.

Please note that you may need the help of a developer to help set this up for you.