Product Mash
Product Mash: Use Manufacturer (or Brand) from product's title
If you have defined your shop to show the product's brand (or other keyword) in its title you can use this value else where in the feeds. For example, you are listing one of your product's in Googlebase with a title of Ercol Furniture - Classic ...
Product Mash: Invalid format uploading Affiliate Window
The product Mash creates a csv file with a separator character of |. When you upload your feeds to Affiliate Window (manually or automated) you must use the following settings in the ShopWindow Management page: Compression: None File Type: csv ...
ProductMash: Which login details do I use for Googlebase and GoogleSitemap
The Product Mash can automatically upload your Googlebase and Googlesitemap files. To do this you must enter the correct username and password in the relevant Product Mash options pages: Googlebase The details that you need are the Googlebase ftp ...
ProductMash: Selling Manager Pro/Spoonfeeder feeds withdrawn
The Ebay Product Mash support for Selling Manager Pro and Spoonfeeder formats has been withdrawn. If you wish to use the Product Mash to extract your products from Actinic and list on eBay, you should download TurboLister and use this feed instead.
ProductMash: Using barcodes set-up in Actinic (or EPOS) in feeds
If you have already added barcodes to your Actinic products you can use these in your feed values by using a value of !!BarCode!! in the appropriate feed field (e.g. EAN). You can enter barcodes when the Actinic EPOS Link is enabled (in the Options ...
ProductMash: How to keep your Mash settings if you change your Actinic site name
If you change the name of your Actinic site, to preserve your existing Product Mash settings you have to tell the Product Mash that the site name has changed. To do this you need to do the following: 1 Close the Product Mash. 2 Run Regedit (Press the ...
ProductMash: Googlebase, what should I use instead of (the now redundant) labels?
Googlebase now gets its search terms from specific product details, for example, brand, isbn, product_type. However, they also search for words in your product description and title. The previously defined Labels, which were used as search terms are ...
ProductMash: After uploading a Google sitemap it can't be seen on the website.
When you register your Google sitemap file you specify a website location, for example, http://www.mole-end.biz/sitemap.xml. However, when you upload you need to check that the FTP root location matches that of your website. When you upload your ...
ProductMash: Getting better results from Googlebase/Froogle
To enable your products to be more visible and more easily found in Googlebase you should include as much searchable information as possible in the main product description. To do this you should redefine the Googlebase product description to include ...
ProductMash: How to include a manufacturer (or other customvar) in your description
If you want to include the product manufacturer in your product description you can use the following approach. This is an example for including the manufacturer before the product description for a Googlebase feed (or other feeds)(in the form ...
ProductMash: Google base does not say that I have uploaded when I have
If you upload to Google using the Product Mash it can take a number of hours for the Google base website to acknowledge that this has been done. However, your items will still appear in Google Base.
ProductMash: How can I combine Actinic fields into a single feed value (all feeds)?
When creating feeds the Product Mash automatically assigns the the Actinic fields to the correct feed values. You can override this or use more than 1 Actinic field for 1 feed value. To use 2 Actinic product fields in 1 feed value use the following ...
Product Mash: Selling Items on Ebay using your Actinic products and Turbo Lister
1 The default feed created by the Ebay Product Mash is for a 10 day fixed priced UK based item (of quantitiy 1). You can change these if you have an Ebay shop (to GTC). 2 You should then set-up the other default information, which is: Location - ...
ProductMash: How to include product information from files in Actinic V8
If you want to use different product descriptions (or any other fields), for certain feeds, from a file you should use the following approach for Actinic V8 (and above). 1 Within the Design Library (Design->Library menu option) create a new variable. ...
Product Mash: Product Mash hangs when viewing feed output
Every time you choose to View Output in Notepad the Product Mash hangs and has to restarted. The reason why the Product Mash appears to hang is that it is waiting for you to close notepad. This is done for the following reasons: 1 So that when the ...
ProductMash: Ebay shipping costs does not get imported into TurboLister
Shipping information does not import directly into Turbo Lister shipping fields. You can resolve this by creating your pricing in the Shipping Instructions information in the listing. To do this create a new property called Payment Instuctions ...
Product Mash: How do I use my section title in my feeds?
Some people arrange their shop sections by manufacturer or category. If you want to use this title in your feeds, for example, the Googlebase brand, you should use the !!SectionTitle!! macro in you feed set-up. Another example, where your Actinic 's ...
ProductMash: How to use Short, Long descriptions, Extended info and text files all at once for products
If you store your product information within Actinic in multiple description areas and in text files you can use the following approach to include this information within the product mash. This can be used to map to other formats in an easier manner ...
Product Mash: How do you automatically generate feeds for multiple Actinic sites
The Product Mash stores different feed options for each site. If you want to automatically upload the feed for 3 different sites you need to change site within Actinic before running the Product Mash. This can be done in 2 different ways: 1 Use One ...
Product Mash: For Kelkoo need to put Actinic Title and Description in different fields
For some Kelkoo departments you need to put the Actinic�Title and�Description in different fields from the default ones. i.e. By default the Actinic product Description is put into the Kelkoo Description field and the Actinic Title goes into the ...
Product Mash: Paid On Results, need to add extra details
If you are using the Paid On Results feed and they (the Paid On Results account manager) ask for more details in your feed, you can add in the required extra values by using the following approach.This is an example of adding in Product IDs and ...
Product Mash: How to automatically create and upload feeds on a regular basis
Once you have set-up and tested your feed (e.g. Googlebase or Shopzilla) you can run the Product Mash in batch mode. This allows you to Mash and Upload your feeds without having to press any buttons. You can run this from either the Windows Task ...
Product Mash: V7 and below: How to use User Defined Properties
In the Product Mash if you need to define different values for your products (such as EAN) and Actinic does not currently provide that information you can add a Custom Property. A custom property allows you to include additional information for each ...
Product Mash: Not all products included in feeds
If you leave the default settings , but tick the Exclude Product Duplicates field not all products are listed. If you have your main products in a hidden section (for ease of maintenance) and only show the duplicates on the main website you will need ...
Product Mash: Submitted Google sitemap file returns error
Google returns "Unsupported file format" when you submit your Google sitemap file. This is because you have a redirected 404 page on your website (i.e. if someone goes to an invalid page on your website it is re-directed to a valid page). This is a ...
Product Mash: Problems uploading sitemaps
If you upload your sitemaps to Yahoo and Google and receive an error similar to the one below you need to check your Server upload details. The values can be copied from your Actinic network settings dialog. More information about testing these ...
Product Mash: Shopzilla - Use more than 1 Promotional code
By default, in the Shopzilla feed you can only select 1 Promotional Designation (from the list below). Authorized Dealer 1 See Site For Better Price 2 Same Day Shipping 3 Kit Special 4 2-3 Day Shipping 5 Store Pickup Available 6 Price Before Rebate 7 ...
Product Mash: V8 onwards: How to use User Defined Properties
The Product Mash always looks for User Defined Properties (UDPs) at the product level. What this means is that whenever you set them up in Actinic you must always tick Product in the Place of Setting area (of the Basic Definition page of a variable ...
Product Mash: Which feeds should I be using?
All of the feeds will increase awareness (and sales) for your sites. You have to work out which is the best for your particular site and product type. For example, from our experience, we have found that affiliate companies are good for selling niche ...
Product Mash: How to exclude certain information from a field within a feed
How do we exclude some information from the "full description"� field in Actinic �so it does not appear in a product feed? � Product Mash can remove �Actinic HTML from the code.�Put Actinic HTML markers �(!!< >!!) around the information you want to ...
How to use the eBay Product Mash
Run up the product mash. On the right hand side, untick all of the feed options except for eBay Click on the Feed Options button. � A message might pop up saying that the feed has invalid options, this is because it is not yet setup, you can just ok ...
Google are asking me to provide a Unique Product Identifier for my products, what is this?
What is a Unique Product Identifier Google require you to provide an industry standard id for your products.�� You cannot generally use your Actinc / Sellerdeck product reference as your unique product reference for this field. You unique product ...
How to add new data to Actinic / Sellerdeck and use it in your feeds
If you need to add new data then you can do this by creating�User Defined Properties (V8 and above)�or�Custom Variables�(V7 and below) and adding the appropriate values to your products / sections before generating your feed file. �You can then tell ...
Do I need to buy a license for each of my Actinic / Sellerdeck sites
No, our software is licensed per machine, so if you have several sites on �the same machine, a single license is valid for all of them. � Some of our products allow you to select the site to work with from within the program (order processing, ...
Product Mash
Product Mash for Actinic / Sellerdeck� Link your Actinic / Sellerdeck products to other systems such Google Shopping, eBay and Playtrade. � Software Download�http://www.mole-end.biz/download/ME_FroogleMash.exe Manual ...
How to list on google shopping
What is Google Shopping Google shopping is a searchable directory of products listed by google when you click on the shopping link on the main google search page. � Click here to see the google shopping directory. � You can submit details of your ...
Some of my product details are not being included in the mashed file
Scenario : There is information missing from the product feed - such as parts of the description or other fields If you have HTML in your product descriptions you can remove this using the Remove Embedded HTML option. There are 2 types of HTML to ...
I purchased a Product Mash feed license but cannot trial a different feed
Scenario : You have a license for one or more feeds in the Product Mash but you are unable to trial any other feeds. � If you have purchased a feed/license from us in the past, the other feeds will have automatically continued with the "30 day trial" ...
Product Mash:How to add custom tags to the RSS feed (e.g. an image)
The RSS feed provides several default tags (e.g. description, author). If you want to create your own tags: 1 Add a new custom property in the RSS Feed options 2 Select the Specify Custom Variable and enter the name (e.g. image). 3 In the Value ...
Including / Excluding products from your feed
Automatic exclusion � The main options page has several options that can be used to exclude products from your feed. � � � Exclude 0 value products � products with a zero price will be excluded, note that if your product is using component pricing if ...
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