Datafeed Specification and Format Changes

On August 1st we will be implementing a change to the format of datafeeds hosted on ShareASale. These changes have been engineered so that they should only affect you if you want them to. Merchants will be able to continue sending old formats, and the fields will all be placed at the end of feeds so as to minimize impact to Affiliates.

Here is some specific information for both parties.

MERCHANTS:

ShareASale is releasing a new datafeed specification. This new specification will allow you to make more product data available to your affiliates. This new specification introduces 15 new data columns to the affiliates. To make use of these new columns, you will need to alter the datafeed file that you send to ShareASale. Please note that you can continue to send your datafeed updates in their existing format indefinitely. You only need to make a change if you wish to utilize the new data columns. The new datafeed format will be released to the affiliates on August 1st 2009, but you can begin sending the new format file anytime.

Highlights on the new feed include:

Quantity Discounts
Product Cross Selling
Additional Category Fields
Product Options (including the ability to change the base price based on a given option)

Complete details on the new specification can be found at:

http://www.shareasale.com/m-productmassupload.cfm

AFFILIATES:

The ShareASale datafeed specification will be changing on August 1st, 2009.
We will be adding 25 columns to the feed. Fifteen will be populated with new data and ten will be reserved for future use. This change may require you to update the procedure that you use to import ShareASale datafeeds.

Highlights include:

Merchant defined SKU value (unique)
Quantity Discounts
Product Cross Selling
Additional Category Fields
Product Options (including the ability to change the base price based on a given option)

The full and detailed specification can be found inside your Affiliate Interface in the Help Center @ http://www.shareasale.com/a-helpcenter.cfm?ID=39

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