Product feeds

Product feeds sync your product catalog with Cevoid, enabling product tags on posts, product-based galleries, and product reviews. Use product feeds when your store isn't on Shopify or WooCommerce: they're available in workspaces set up with Other as their integration. The products a feed syncs show in Products. On another platform or a headless setup, feeds are one part of the general implementation.

Navigate to Settings → Products and markets⁠ to configure your feeds.

Each product feed belongs to a market. To add a feed to a new market, create the market first: see Create a market.

1. Navigate to Settings → Products and markets⁠
2. Click ... on the market's row and select Edit
3. Click Add product feed under Product feeds
4. Enter your feed's URL in Feed URL
5. Select its File format: XML, CSV, or TSV
6. Optional: If your feed is password-protected, click Authentication and enter both its Username and Password. Cevoid sends them with HTTP basic authentication.
7. Click Connect to Feed. A preview of your feed shows, and Cevoid fills in the mappings it recognizes.

1. Enter a name in Feed Name, if Cevoid didn't fill it in from your feed
2. Map each field to a column in your feed: see Field mapping
3. Click Create feed

The market then waits under Markets ready to sync in Settings → Products and markets until you start its sync: see Sync a new market. After that, it syncs automatically.

Once a product feed is connected, a preview of the feed displays. Map your feed fields to Cevoid's values.

Reviews uses the same products: the variants Cevoid groups into one product, by Item group ID or by URL path, share their reviews. Google Rich Snippets and Google Shopping product rating feeds need only each product's title and link. Cevoid adds the GTIN, MPN, SKU, and brand from Gtin, Mpn, Sku, and Brand when you map them. Google matches the reviews in a product rating feed to your products best by GTIN.

A feed in any market other than your default market can take its mapping from the default feed: the first feed in your default market. Enable Use mapping from primary market under Mapping Sync when you add or edit the feed. A new feed starts with it enabled once your default market has a feed. The feed then uses the default feed's field mappings, Item group ID, variant options, collections, and searchable fields. To change them, click Open default feed and edit the default feed.

Under Additional searchable fields, click Add field to search to make the values of up to 3 more feed columns searchable, such as an article number. Products can then be found by these values when you search for a product to tag. Columns used for the ID, title, link, description, images, price, or categories can't be added.

Each product feed belongs to a market, and you edit or remove it from that market's settings.

1. Navigate to Settings → Products and markets⁠
2. Click ... on the market's row and select Edit
3. Click the feed's row under Product feeds, or Edit in its ... menu. Edit feed opens, with the feed's settings and mapping.
4. Click Save changes once you've made your changes. They apply from the feed's next sync.

To remove a feed, click ... on the feed's row in step 3, select Delete, and click Remove in the Remove this feed? dialog. Cevoid permanently deletes the feed's settings, and the products it synced stay in Cevoid.

The Status column in a market's Product feeds section shows how each feed's sync went:

After 10 failed syncs in a row, Cevoid stops syncing the feed's market automatically, and the market waits under Markets ready to sync on Settings → Products and markets⁠. Fix the feed, then start the market's sync there, as in Sync a new market. After that, the market syncs automatically again.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<products>
  <product>
    <!-- Required fields -->
    <id>1001-BLK-M</id>
    <product_title>Classic Cotton T-Shirt</product_title>
    <link>https://cevoid.com/product/classic-cotton-t-shirt</link>
    <product_price>29.99</product_price>
    <image_link>https://cdn.cevoid.com/image/classic-tee-black-front.jpg</image_link>

    <!-- Optional fields -->
    <item_group_id>1001</item_group_id>
    <additional_image_link>https://cdn.cevoid.com/image/classic-tee-black-lifestyle.jpg</additional_image_link>
    <sale_price>19.99</sale_price>
    <availability>in_stock</availability>
    <category>Apparel &gt; Tops &gt; T-Shirts</category>

    <!-- Collections (Optional) -->
    <gender>Women, Unisex</gender>
    <styles>Casual, Streetwear, Minimalist, Everyday</styles>

    <!-- Variant options (Optional) -->
    <size>M</size>
    <color>Black</color>
  </product>
</products>

Google Shopping feed schema is most common, but Cevoid supports custom field names that you map during setup.

XML, CSV, or TSV, at most 250 MB per feed.

Yes. Add multiple feeds if your catalog is split across files. Usually one is enough.

All fields except product ID can be remapped freely. Changes apply after the next product sync. Cevoid syncs each feed about once a day, and when you click Sync products in Settings → Products and markets⁠: see When products sync.