Product feed (XML feed) is an XML file that contains data about products from the advertiser’s catalog. It allows you to streamline affiliate marketing processes, enhance campaign effectiveness, and drive traffic to your site.
Affiliates can use the product feed to create price comparison websites, affiliate online stores, and email newsletters with the description of products. Using their own or ready-to-use parsers and plugins, they alter the information from the XML file to the required format, upload it to their ad spaces, and form their own product catalogs.
Product feeds offer several key benefits:
Efficient link generation: affiliates can quickly find and display relevant product links without the time-consuming task of manually creating deep links for each product.
Access to product data: affiliates gain direct access to a vast repository of product details and pricing information, enabling them to search, filter, and display products in various ways to suit their audience and marketing strategies.
Improved conversion tracking: product feeds facilitate accurate conversion tracking, enabling advertisers to attribute sales to specific publishers and measure the effectiveness of their affiliate marketing efforts.
💰 The feature is available only for certain plans. Contact your Affise account manager to get it.
Product feed list
To find product feed, go to Advertisers > Product Feed:
where:
Product feed name: the title of the product feed.
Advertiser: the advertiser of the product feed.
Products count: the amount of product items a product feed contains.
Update frequency: the frequency of the product feed data update.
From date: the date when the product feed starts being active.
Till date: the date when the product feed stops being active.
Last modified date: the time and date of the product feed last update.
Actions: you can edit the product feed or delete it.
You can add new product feeds to Affise to track new products and their performance.
Product feed on the Offer page
On the Product feeds tab of the offer, you can connect one of the product feeds to the offer.
⚠️ You can connect only one product feed to the offer.
Once a product feed is connected to the offer, it reflects for the affiliates in the Affiliate panel.
Product feed in Payouts
You can send the correct commissions to affiliates by setting up payouts for product feed items. For that, use the custom_field1-custom_field15 fields to configure different payout rules.
🔎 For example, if you want set 2.5% payout for an existing purchase and 5% payout for a new purchase, you can set up 2 payouts like this:
Then pass a new or existing value in the custom_field5 and the system will calculate payout based on the payout rules.
Product logs
You can use the Logs feature to check the logs for different product feeds. To find it, go to Advertisers > Product Feed > Logs:
What to do next
Please contact the Affise Customer Support team regarding all raised questions via the e-mail: [email protected].