AvantLink's Datafeed Manager offers two levels of datafeed access for Affiliates including custom Raw Datafeed Files, and a Datafeed Client. Affiliates may select from the minimum column structure established through the ABestWeb Datafeed Standard, and if merchants provide additional data/columns, we'll add those columns as optional.
This tool provides Affiliates with free, customizable raw datafeeds that are easy to automate.
In order to standardize our datafeed offerings, we have built a custom import routine for organizing catalog data from all merchants. On a regular basis this routine updates the merchant's datafeeds in AvantLink, allowing us to push out accurate pricing and inventory to those Affiliates using our dynamic tools.
The Datafeed Manager v3.0 includes two options for accessing and publishing product feeds:
Raw Datafeed Files
Web Service Datafeed Client
With the v3.0 release we've rolled out a powerful configuration platform that allows Affiliates to customize their raw datafeeds from column structure to data format. Merchant data delivered in your usable format will increase productivity and make updates more efficient.
Customization features of the raw data include the ability to sort your feed by category, sub-category, product group or even by brand! Once the configuration is complete, package your feed with the data format that works best for you (Tab Delimited, CSV, XML, etc.) and save. Affiliates are then given HTTP access with a custom URL to their datafeeds so they can grab updates anytime by navigating straight to a custom URL.
Highlights of using Raw Datafeed Files...
- All AvantLink merchants offer free access to datafeeds
- More flexibility with descriptions and other merchant content
- 100% customizable feeds (column structure & data format)
- Custom URLs to datafeeds with your Affiliate links auto-coded
- Standardized, network-wide system for configurations
- The ability to edit existing configurations
If you would like to speak to someone from AvantLink about our Raw Datafeed Files please drop us a line. We also encourage public discussion in our support forum.
Affiliate Application Merchant Application
Originally offered as a third party datafeed management solution, this client provides webmasters with a dynamic, spiderable datafeed that can easily be published to their sites. This product is most effectively used on authority sites looking for a way to monetize their existing traffic and search engine placements.
Once configured, installed and customized, site administrators can link up this datafeed client from their navigation and continue publishing the unique, user-generated content and other traffic drivers that worked to established their sites on the Internet. Basically, they'll go about content publication practices as they always have!
Highlights of using the Web Service Datafeed Client...
- Promote targeted & dynamic merchant datafeeds on your site
- CSS supported, highly customizable HTML template
- Standardized, network-wide system for datafeed subscriptions
- The ability to edit existing subscriptions
- Full control over outbound link text and buy URL link options
- Accurate pricing and inventory with no ongoing maintenance
- All output is simple, spiderable HTML
If you would like to speak to someone from AvantLink about our Web Service Datafeed Client drop us a line. We also encourage public discussion in our support forum.
Affiliate Application Merchant Application
Free access to this tool is available from the Affiliate account interface by selecting 'Tools' from the main menu. For more information join the Datafeed Manager discussion on our support forum.