Catalog Feed

The catalog feed is a structured list of products and categories. This feed keeps your product information current in Emplifi Ratings & Reviews.

Accepted Feed Formats

To get set up the fastest, we recommend using one of the following feeds to avoid data transformation:

• TurnTo Catalog Feed Format

• Commerce Product Catalog Feed Format for Emplifi Ratings & Reviews

These formats will require additional transformation:

• Yahoo objinfo.xml

• Google Products search XML (Atom 1.0 version) with Google's own namespace extension

• Google Products search XML (RSS 2.0 version) with Google's own namespace extension

• Google Products tab-delimited

• Bazaarvoice Product Feed

Providing the catalog feed

You can provide your catalog feed to Emplifi Ratings & Reviews by manually uploading the file, supplying the file's URL or FTP location, or setting up an automated collection via the TurnTo API for Emplifi Ratings & Reviews.

You can track the status of the feed in Settings → Feeds → View Feeds. If you sent a file for validation and did not receive any errors, you can click Promote to have the platform fully process that file. To learn more, see Feed Processing.

Manual File Upload

Feeds uploaded through the Ratings & Review Portal have a 10 MB file size limit. Larger feed files should be delivered via FTP or through the API.

Steps:

1. In Emplifi Ratings & Reviews, click Settings → Feeds → Upload Feed.

2. From the Feed Type dropdown menu, select TurnTo Catalog or Commerce Catalog.

3. (Optional) For TurnTo catalog, select an encoding.

4. Choose your file.

5. (Optional) Select Validate Only.
   Instead of uploading the feed, we validate that the contents match the selected format.

6. Click Submit.

Upload File by URL or FTP

Steps:

1. In Emplifi Ratings & Reviews, click Settings → Manage Site.

2. Check the Catalog Feed Pull Enabled checkbox.

3. From the Catalog Feed Type dropdown menu, select TurnTo Tab-delimited or Commerce Catalog.

4. (Optional) For TurnTo catalog, from the Catalog Feed Encoding dropdown, select an encoding.

5. Click Add catalog url, enter the file URL or FTP location, and click Save.

6. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Update to save your changes.

Use the API

To deliver your product feed via the TurnTo API for Emplifi Ratings & Reviews, see Automating Feeds with the TurnTo API for Emplifi Ratings & Reviews.