Ingram Feed Specifications

About Ingram

Ingram is a great place to feed your products if you are a book publisher. Feedonomics makes it easy to send a feed of your book attributes over to Ingram.

What fields does Ingram require?

The required fields for the Ingram feed are:
EAN or UPC
Product Form Code
Title Text
BISAC
Subject1
Imprint
Publication Date
Status
List Price
Cont 1
Cont 1
Role
Language
Audience Code

Ingram’s feed format also has mandatory if applicable fields, like:

Product Form Detail – Mandatory if Product Form Code of BC (paperback) is used
Subtitle – Mandatory if Subtitle exists
Series Title – If Series Title exists
Number Within Series – If Series Number exists
On Sale Date – Use to specify where strict street dates are to be in effect for a title
Cont 2 – Use if second contributor is applicable
Cont 2 Role – Use if second contributor isapplicable
Cont 3 – Use if third contributor is applicable
Cont 3 Role – Use if third contributor is applicable
Edition Number – Mandatory if previous edition exists
Edition Type Code – Mandatory if alternate edition exists
Ingram Category – A proprietary code only to be used when delivering textbooks

Ingram feed fields that are not required

Disc Perc – Discount Percentage in decimal form. 50% should be listed as .50
CAD Price – List Price
in Canadian Dollars
Number of Pages – Read from the last printed page in the book
Ctn Qty – Carton Quantity
Product Description – Brief Product Marketing Copy. Maximum of 1000 characters. No HTML. No Author Biographies.
GRL – Guided Reading Level

What do the Ingram headers look like?

EAN
UPC
Product Form Code
Product Form
Detail
Title Text
Subtitle
Series Title
Number Within Series
BISAC
Subject
Imprint
Publication Date
On Sale Date
Status
List Price
Disc Perc
CAD
Price
Number of Pages
Ctn Qty
Cont 1
Cont 1 Role
Cont 2
Cont 2 Role
Cont 3
Cont 3 Role
Language
Edition Number
Edition Type Code
Audience Code
Ingram
Category
GRL
Product Description

How to name your Ingram feed file?

Make sure that your filename includes publisher name and date.

How about Images in the Ingram feed?

All digital images must be sent in the following format: JPEG or TIFF RGB colorspace (No CMYK images will be
accepted) Clean, clear, and sharply defined 72-300 dpi At least 648 pixels on the longest edge required (1000 pixels
preferred) Images must be supplied via FTP, CD-ROM or DVD. Images may also be uploaded via the Product Management
(SUPPLiWAY) option on ipage®

Note 1: All images must be named by EAN. Images must be named by the 13 digits of the EAN with extension. No hyphens
or other characters should be present. If an image can be used for two separate EANs, please save the image once
under each EAN. We are unable to use images named in any other manner. Example: 9781234567890.jpg or
9781234567890.tif Note 2: All book images must be a two dimensional (flat) scan of the front cover without borders
or drop shadows. Multi-volume boxed sets and non-book product images may be three dimensional photos with a white
background.

The PF Detail list is below:

The Product Form List is below: