When you select Connect Feed, the Create Group from Feed page opens.
Fields marked with asterisk (*) are mandatory.
In the first field, specify the name of the group.
To add locations for which products and prices will be uploaded, you need to click on Select Companies.
In the opened window, select the desired companies from the list and click Finish.
To find the desired company, you can use the search field by name or address, as well as filters by brands and groups.
You can view the already selected companies to understand which locations are still missing. To do this, check the box for Show only selected companies.
If the necessary companies were sorted in the top filter, they can be selected by clicking on Select from common filter. More information about this filter can be found here.
To select the catalog to which products and prices will be uploaded, click on the Services field and choose the desired source from the drop-down list. In this field, you can select multiple services.
For the Yandex catalog, the number of products or services in the feed is no more than 10,000, and the file size is up to 15 MB. However, not all products will be displayed on the maps.
In Yandex Maps, there is a byte limit on the total amount of information about products and services that can be displayed in the company profile. This limit is approximately 500 items.
The actual number of items depends on several factors, such as the length of the titles and descriptions, the presence of links to photos in the price list, etc. Therefore, sometimes fewer products may be displayed than were uploaded in the price list, even if only 500 items were uploaded. If the products only have a short title and price, more than 500 items may fit in the profile.
For the Yandex catalog, products must comply with publication rules and must not violate the User Agreement of Yandex services. The service does not publish price lists that contain prohibited:
- Products:
- - Alcohol;
- - Weapons;
- - Tobacco products, electronic cigarettes, and tobacco heating systems.
- Topics:
- Political content;
- Threats, insults, and obscenities;
- Shocking content (e.g., insects used as animal feed);
- Extremism, violence, and cruelty;
- Erotica and pornography.
- Or include:
- Personal data;
- Phone numbers;
- Links in text and on images.
If the Google Business Profile source has been selected, the Product Group Type field will be displayed. When clicked, a drop-down list opens in which you can select:
- Services. Attention! For the Service type, you can upload products without specifying the price. To do this, leave the Price and Currency fields blank.
- Menus. Attention! It is impossible to upload a menu for companies in the category of Deli!
Attention! At the moment, only downloading services and menus are available in Google Business Profile. You can download no more than 100 services for one category in one company. And an error may also be displayed if it is impossible to find overlapping categories in Google for the selected locations. You should select companies with similar activities.
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If after creating the first group, which had 100 services uploaded, you add a second group, select a different category, and upload another 100 services, the services from the first created group will be deleted, leaving only the services from the second group!
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If, for instance, 50 services were added in the first group, and 70 in the second, then the loading will occur as follows: all 50 services for the first category and only 50 services from the second will be loaded, a total of 100 services will be obtained. But only the name of the second category will be taken into account, i.e. it will be assumed that all services have been downloaded from the last group with the corresponding category.
The Google service category field will be displayed if Services is selected in the Product Group Type, and Google Business Profile is selected in Services. This field will be clickable only if the necessary companies are selected.
Click on the field and select the desired categories from the drop-down list.
Specify the link to the feed. You can download the feed template by clicking the button next to the field.
Attention!
- Product description text:
- For the Yandex directory, it must not exceed 3000 characters.
- For the Google directory - 300 characters.
- When uploading data to both directories simultaneously - 300 characters.
- The file size should not exceed 15MB.
- Verifying the products before sending can take up to several hours.
After filling in all the fields, click on Save.
The feed will be sent for validation. If it is successful, the prices will be sent to the catalog. Changes in products and prices are sent to sources daily. Then they undergo moderation on the catalog itself.
How to upload products through iiko, you can find out further.