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January 31, 2007
Some customers may have received an email from Google Base indicating that they will require additional product attributes in the bulk upload file beginning March 2007. Please rest assured that we will implement these new attributes well before then, as we did when Froogle converted to Google Base in June 2006.
The five new required attributes are 'id', 'brand', 'condition', 'expiration_date', and 'product_type'. 'id' is currently being submitted. 'expiration_date' will always be set to the latest allowed date. The remaining three fields, 'brand', 'condition', and 'product_type', are not available by default in your Yahoo Store product table. For those fields, we will provide options in your feed settings to populate the fields. These may include sending blank values, default values, or values pulled from your store's custom fields (as is done for Shopping.com feeds). We expect that for many merchants, sending blank or default values will be sufficient. We will provide further instructions soon.
Shopping.com data feed services will return to normal pricing tomorrow, February 1, 2007.
January 1, 2007
As indicated earlier, the account service fee of $0.15 per day (about $4.50 per month) takes effect on January 1, 2007. All other pricing remains the same. To reflect this and other changes, the terms of service have been updated. Thank you for the opportunity to provide you with data feed services for your Yahoo store.
Remember, the Shopping.com data feed service is free through January 31, 2007. Using this service may increase your ROI.
December 1, 2006
We are pleased to announce a new Shopping.com data feed service for Yahoo Stores. Shopping.com is the largest comparison shopping site on the Internet. Shopping.com charges merchants by cost-per-click. Submitting data to them by Product Feed File Upload is free. Our new Shopping.com service does exactly this, with a similar feature set to the Froogle data feed service.
This service will have the same pricing structure as the Froogle data feed, which is $0.30 per submission of unlimited products in one store. As an incentive to try this new service, all Shopping.com services will be free of charge through January 31, 2007. To get started, simply log into your account and click the "Add Shopping.com feed" link.
We have not raised our fees since Feb. 1, 2005. In order to maintain our low, a-la-carte pricing, provide ongoing maintenance and support, and develop new services, we will be instituting an account service fee of $0.15 per day per account. The total fee will be approximately $4.50 per month per account. This fee will apply to both active and inactive accounts. You may still request a refund of your available credit at any time should you wish to cancel service. The minimum payment amount will be increased to $10.00. This new policy will take effect on Jan 1, 2007.
November 27, 2006
Our system now includes product options in the Froogle feed. When options exist, they are appended to the product description in a readable format, e.g. "Smily Face T-Shirt - Options: Size: S, M, L - Color: White, Black". More keywords in the description help your search result rankings for longer, multi-term queries. Longer queries tend to have higher conversion rates.
We also detected a glitch in the Froogle feed that was dropping the capital 'F' character from the data during the last few weeks. All feeds submitted or retrieved in the last month have been resubmitted, and a credit has been issued to your account for the submission. All bulk upload files for download have also been regenerated free of charge. Please accept our apologies for this error.
November 18, 2006
Announced the new Product Count Alert service. See the bottom of Customer's FAQ for more details.
November 4, 2006
You can now download your bulk upload file from your account. See Customer's FAQ for more details.
October 4, 2006
Somacon has been reorganized as Aten Software LLC and the website moved to this site. There are no there changes to our service at this time. We hope to provide you with additional services in the near future.
June 2, 2006
The system has been updated and now sends feeds (bulk uploads) to Google Base. Your products should appear in both Froogle and Google Base search results. Some users may have to recreate their FTP credentials by logging into their Google Base account.