CS-Cart Data feeds Add-on

The Data feeds add-on is a tool expanding the features of product export in CS-Cart webshop software.

Due to this add-on administrator of CS-Cart webstore gets the ability to do a range of things:

• to create any number of product data formats for export;
• to export files to shopping directories like Google Product Search, Shopzilla, Shopping.com, etc.;
• to define a different set of products for each file;
• specify the field configuration as you wish.

In order to set up the Data feeds add-on, follow the instructions below.

Part 1.

• Sign in your webstore's administration panel;
• Go to the Administration tab;
• Click on the Ad-dons link;
• Find the the Data feeds ad-don in the list;
• Replace its status from Disabled to Active in the select box on the right;
• Click on the edit link of the ad-don;
• Fill in the Cron password input field with your cron password;
• Click on the Save button.

Part 2

• Sign in your webstore's administration panel;
• Go to the Administration tab;
• Open the Data feeds link;
• Click on the Add data feed button;
• This will open a window;
• Complete the fields in it:
• Data feed name – type the data feed name.
• Filename – type the exported file name.
• Language – in the drop-down list choose the language.
• Category delimiter – specify category path delimiter for product main category (e.g. "Computers///Desktops").
• Images directory – where product images are placed. It is used in case images don't have specified path.
• Files directory - where files for downloadable products are placed. This will be used in case the path is not specified for files.
• Price decimal separator - for product prices.
• CSV delimiter – choose one variant to separate data in the feed: semicolon, comma, tab.
• Status of the data feed – tick the desired one Active or Disabled.
• Server directory – specify the directory on your server where you'd like to export the data feed to, also check if it has writable permissions.
• FTP server - the directory URL on the FTP server where the data feed should be uploaded in the format below:

host[:port]/directory. For example, ftp.example.com:21/home/johndoe/feeds.

• FTP username – username you want to use to access the FTP server.
• FTP password – password you want to use to access the FTP server.
• Export by cron to – you should choose one of the following options: server (means directory on a current server) or FTP (third-party FTP server), this will specify the place where you want to upload data feed to.

Part 3.

• Go to the Exported items tab:
• Click on the Add categories button to add necessary categories;
• Click on the Add Products button to add necessary products.

Part 4.

• Go to the Fields mapping tab;
• Here you can manage a list of fields the data feed contains;
• Each field has the following attributes:
• Pos. - stands for the field position in relation to the position of the other fields in the data feed;
• Field name – type the field name;
• Field type – insert meaning of the data in the field;
• Active – ticking this check-box can make the field available or not;
• Click on the Create button.