Copy Your Data Feed Optimization to Multiple Channels

Merchants often want the same data feed optimization for all channels. In DataFeedWatch you can create a feed for one channel, by simply copying the mapping of another channel. That saves a lot of time.

 

Many DataFeedWatch customers have a few complicated rules. Like mapping color from description, product type from Title, excluding products from 10 different categories or creating categories for 50 different product types.

 

So if your rules apply to all your data feeds, it is best to enter these rules once and then copy them to all other channels.

 

Copy your Data Feed Optimization in Multiple Channels

 

How does Copy Channel work?

 

Copy Channel is available for Map fields, In/exclude products and Categories:

 

 

Map fields

 

On all pages in Edit feed, there is a pull down in the top right corner that says “Copy from other channel”

 

 

Copy Map Channel Fields

 

 

When you select a channel from that pull-down, all Map field rules that you created for that other channel, will instantly appear on the Map fields page that you are working on.

 

So you don’t have to create those rules again.


You can still make changes to it (because maybe you only want 90% of the rules to be the same) and you need to save it when you are done.

 

Please note that all rules that were already in place will be overwritten by the rules that you copied from another channel.

 

In/Exclude products

 

This works exactly the same as for Map fields.

 

 

 

Categories

 

If you use the 'Copy from .." in the categories-tab, all conditions will be copied from the other channel, but not the actual categories; each channel has different categories, so you still have to pick the appropriate category manually.

 

 

Copy Channel Default Categories


Not for CSV / TXT / (non-google-) XML

 

Copy Channel does not work if the source feed is a csv or txt file or an xml-file in any other format than google-xml.

 

Not all fields can be copied

 

The field must exist on both channels

 

If Google Shopping has a ‘color’ field and Bing does not, the color-field will not be copied from Google to Bing. Both channels should have fields that may have different names but have identical meanings.

 

Only the most current fields

 

There are tens of thousands of fields in the 500+ channels that we offer. It is impossible to link all of them to all others. That is why we have enabled Copy Channel for the fields that are used the most.

 

If you would like to copy a field that is not supported by Copy Channel, you will need to create those rules manually after all.

 

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Written by Jacques van der Wilt

Founder & CEO at DataFeedWatch

Jacques is a shopping feeds industry leader, start-up mentor, and entrepreneur. He's the founder and CEO of DataFeedWatch (acquired by Cart.com in 2022): a leading global feed management and optimization company that helps online merchants optimize their product listings on more than 2000 shopping channels in over 60 countries. Before founding DataFeedWatch, Jacques held leadership positions in the US and Europe. He is also a seasoned guest speaker at industry events and a mentor at Startup Bootcamp.

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