Product Mash
ProductMash:Ebay, how to include your Actinic image in the Ebay description
If you want to include your Actinic image as part of the Ebay desciption (allowing you to pay less Ebay fees if using multiple images) you should use the following approach: You need to define you description with the Product Mash to include your ...
Product Mash: Quick guide on how to set up your Google Product Search options.
Output �Filename� Type in the name of the file to store the Google Product Search information to (including the directory). This is the name of the file that Google will be expecting on their website (name registered when your Google Merchant account ...
Batch options for the product mash
You can use batch options to run the product mash program from the command line, by default it will use the settings you have set up already but you can also specify command line arguments to enable you to product a slightly different file to the ...
Product Mash: I run Actinic V8 and Actinic V9 do I need to buy 2 copies of Product Mash?
� All of our Mole End Software software�now uses timed licenses, these licenses work for 12 months, from the purchase date, with any Actinic version. The version you need to buy is the version that you want to be the default. Once the license has ...
Product Mash: What do I use for brand with googlebase?
I'm having trouble with Product Mash after clicking the feed options, for instance on the Google Base option I'm told to enter a brand name, but my store must have over 250 brand names, which one should be entered? � If all your items have the same ...
Product Mash: How to show different Stock Values (or Stock Levels) in Feeds when using Stock Control Macros
You may want to show different values for your stock levels or different text if in stock from the default Yes and 1 or No and 0.For example, for Amazon Seller Central you may want to always show a stock level of 100 if you have any items in stock ...
Product Mash:Ebay Feed-TurboLister crashes if no category defined
If you do not enter an Ebay Category for a product (in the Category 1 value in the Product Mash feed options) Turbo Lister can crash or take a very long time and then not import any products. The value to enter is the Ebay category numeric value, ...
ProductMash: Can't upload feeds to website (e.g. Google sitemap)
If you receive an error when uploading a feed to either your website or Google, Kelkoo etc. and you have the correct login details and path this could be due to your firewall software. With the Windows firewall you are prompted if you want the ...
Product Mash: How to produce a Google Sitemap with page priorities
Creating sitemaps can be the best way for your website to be discovered by search engines. In a sitemap you can define the URLs of your site and various metadata about each URL. This allows search engines to intelligently crawl the site. Here is an ...
Product Mash: How do I track (through Google Analytics) the traffic and sales that each of the shopping directories send?
In order to do this you need to add tracking parameters on to the end of each product URL. There is a new feature available in Product Mash that will allow you to do this. You can add a custom variable to the feed that will replace one of the ...
Product Mash: How to use Macros with text fields in the product mash
Sometimes the default values, taken from Actinic, used by the Product Mash are not the best suited for your feed. Sometimes additional requirements of a feed mean that you need specific information from information already entered into Actinic. ...
ProductMash: Using the product's weight
You can use the product's weight (defined in Actinic) in your feeds using the !!Weight!! macro. For more information on this and the macros use the following link: http://www.mole-end.biz/acatalog/PMFAAdvancedInfo.html With Amazon Seller Central you ...
ProductMash: What is the RSS feed for and how do I add it to my website?
Some people provide an RSS version of their products in the same way as a sitemap. It is a quick and simple way of potential customers keeping up to date with new and changed products on your website. For an example, look at the subscribe link in the ...
ProductMash: Additional information required for PriceGrabber
PriceGrabber needs to know the manufacturer and PriceGrabber category to put your products into. This information can not be deduced from the standard Actinic data. The additional information must be entered as custom variables (in the same way that ...
Product Mash: How to add barcodes (EAN/GTIN) to Amazon Feed.
Amazon needs to uniquely identify your products. This is done by an ASIN (Amazon number) or, if the item is not currently listed on Amazon, (or you do not want your item to be sold against the same product already sold on Amazon), you need to use a ...
Product Mash: Adding your Actinic Products to Amazon
The product Mash takes all the information available within Actinic and puts this into the correct format for Amazon. Actinic does not contain all the information that Amazon needs. For example, the ASIN. You can also provide more detailed ...
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 ...
Product Mash Release notes
Product Mash for Actinic Release Notes � Features introduced in version 4.0.0.4 New Features Added format options for custom feeds, (save up to 10 different formats for each custom option feed) Added batch paramaters C1, C2 and C3 to allow a ...
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 ...
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 ...