Index:
1. Overview
2. File Formats/Delimiters
3. File Header
4. Field Definitions
5. Example Product Feed
6. System Upload
7. Rules
1. Overview
This document assists advertisers in uploading a product feed to Ascend.
2. File Formats/Delimiters/Encoding
The tab delimiter is the preferred way to delimit fields within a product feed. The supported file encoding type is ISO 8859-1/Latin-1.
Example:
FIELD1\tFIELD2\tFIELD3\t...
\t represents the tab character
3. File Header
The following header is required and must be the top line top of a product feed:
PJN_PRODUCT_FEED_BASIC
4. Field Definitions
Every field of each product record must be present. If there is not any data available for a field, it must be blank.
| Field | Description | Data Type (Length) |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Name | Character (255) |
| SKU | Stock keeping unit | Character (40) |
| DestinationURL | Destination URL | Character (1023) |
| ImageURL | Image URL | Character (1023) |
| ShortDescription | Short description | Character (255) |
| LongDescription | Long description | Character (1023) |
| SalePrice | Price with discount | Number |
| Price | Price | Number |
| Keywords | Keywords | Character (1023) |
| Manufacturer | Manufacturer | Character (1023) |
| PrimaryCategory | Primary Category | Character (50) |
| * Bold Fields are required | ||
5. Example Product Feed
6. System Upload
In order to upload a product feed to Pepperjam, the feed must be available via HTTP GET. The Pepperjam data-transfer system will constantly refresh product data by downloading from the advertiser-specified URL.
7. Rules
- The DestinationURL field must be unique.
- All data within the product feed must be plain text format. HTML tags, CSS, and Javascript are NOT permitted.
- The file header (PJN_PRODUCT_FEED_BASIC) must be present as the first line of the product feed.
- The product feeds must reside on a web accessible location via HTTP GET.
- No blank rows (records) are allowed.
- Every column (field) of each product record must be present. If there is not any data available for a field, it must be left blank.
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