osCommerce SHOP.COM Data Feed

osCommerce SHOP.COM Data Feed is osCommerce contribution which assures the easiest export of your products into SHOP.COM - one of the best Pay-Per-Click services.

Pros: osCommerce SHOP.COM Data Feed enables a merchant to export his products into SHOP.COM - one of the Pay-Per-Click services. SHOP.COM makes online shopping easy. What it does is create an access for a customer to millions of products, hundreds of stores and thousands of name brands. Shoppers just shop with “One Cart” a single shopping cart for any of the products, any of the stores or any of the brands housed at Shop.Com. Every merchant needs to be fully vetted by Shop.com to be reputable and trustworthy as they guarantee assuring customer satisfaction. Multi-language support makes access from any country easy. It is easy to install and configure.

So merchants need to feed data about their products to this mega-store and keep that current. There’s a range of facilities that make these feeds easy to handle. You may decide to export only a few selected categories, include/exclude products that are “out of stock” or with zero quantity and zero price. Multiple currency support for the shoppers globally. You could set a default shipping cost too. You can set what currency to use, decide the limit on how many products you want to export. Third party sales channel tracking via Google Analytics, WebTrends, OneStat, 123LogAnalyzer, Netmining etc. are available. The feeds can be stored on your server or export via FTP or e-mail. Use GZIP for compression of the export file which can be named as you wish. XML based feeds can be validated. If you need to you can strip HTML from the product names and/ or descriptions.

Cons: Nothing problematic noticed.

Overall: This is another 4 star item. It has a nice set of features and is easy to use.

osCommerce SHOP.COM Data Feed is osCommerce contribution which assures the easiest export of your products into SHOP.COM - one of the best Pay-Per-Click services.
SHOP.COM makes online shopping easy by allowing shoppers to shop across millions of products, hundreds of stores and thousands of name brands with the convenience of OneCart, their universal shopping cart. Their mission is to deliver the most compelling shopping experience for thier customers.
Every merchant on SHOP.COM, whether a well-known brand or specialty retailer, has been fully vetted by SHOP.COM and certified to be both reputable and trustworthy. SHOP.COM backs every certified merchant with its own performance guarantee assuring customer satisfaction.
Main features:
... easy to use and configure
... multilanguage support
... multicurrency support
... ability to export only selected categories
... ability to include/exclude products marked "out of stock"
... ability to include/exclude products with zero quantity
... capability to include/exclude products with zero price
... capability to strip HTML from Product Names
... capability to strip HTML from Product Descriptions
... capability to set default shipping cost
... ability to limit number of products exported
... ability to set currency that is used during export
... ability to customize name of the export file
... inline text recommendations for fast initial configuration
... ability to automatically upload feed via FTP
... ability to send feed via email
... third party sales channel tracking (Google Analytics, WebTrends, OneStat, ... 123LogAnalyzer, Netmining etc)
... optional GZIP compression of feed contents
... additional Live Product Feed URL options
... ability to validate feeds (XML-based feeds only)
... ability to store feed on your server
... multiple export configurations
... preconfigured Google Analytics support
... and more.