Kelkoo Feed Specifications

About Kelkoo

Kelkoo is a digital eCommerce advertising and price comparison shopping platform. The name of the company comes from a phonetic spelling of the French phrase “Quel coût?”, which essentially means “At what price?”.

How to create a Kelkoo feed

You will need to fill out the information in this contact form to begin the process of setting up your store and feed with Kelkoo 

If you decide to submit your feed using an XML format, then the following recommendations will be helpful.

• The name of your file must be in the following format “'<sitename>_kelkoo_<countryprefix>.xml”
• Respect the name of the XML tags as shown in the Fields details table
• To validate your XML file, it is preferable to insert the contents of the text fields in a CDATA section
• The description often includes non-escaped specific characters such as &, >, or <. The CDATA section is not analyzed. Thus, we recommend using it if you do not take care to validate your XML Product data feed before sending it to us.

If you choose a text file, here are some recommendations:

• Name your file ‘<sitename>_kelkoo_<countryprefix>.txt’ and save it in UNIX format / DOS
• Use field separators to separate offers, the new line allows our system to distinguish between offers.
• You can use any type of field separator.
• Of course, the field separator should not be present within a same field (for example in the description). The tab will be the only field separator accepted for a the Kelkpack offer.
• All offers must contain the same number of fields. If a field is blank, the field separator must be present.

Required Kelkoo Fields with description of each field

Optional Kelkoo Fields with description of each field

All of these fields are optional but some of them are highly recommended to use. Others are recommended and some are simply optional based on product characteristics.

What formats does Kelkoo accept (CSV, XML, API, etc)

Kelkoo accepts files in XML, TXT and CSV.

How to send your feed to Kelkoo

Kelkoo can receive feeds in several different ways:

HTTP transfer mode

To use this transfer mode, you must provide a URL where we can find your complete Product data feed.

For example: http://yoursite.fr/kelkoo.xml

In the case of large volumes of data, your http server must be set to allow the complete download of the Product data feed.

FTP transfer mode

If you want to submit your file to your FTP account, you must provide:

• The address / URL of your FTP server
• The name of the file(s) used, zipped if possible
• A login and a password

On demand, you have the possibility to host your file on a Kelkoo FTP server. We will communicate your login and password as soon as your Kelkoo FTP server account will be created.

FTP upload using Internet Explorer

• Type in the following URL including username and password: ftp://username:password@ftpkelkoo.kelkoo.net/(username/password need to be changed into the values provided by Kelkoo)
• The next step is to open a FTP site in Windows Explorer. Press Alt, click View, and then click Open FTP Site in File Explorer.
• You will then be prompted again for the username and password. Type in the provided values given by Kelkoo.
• After opening the FTP Site, you are ready to upload your file. This can be done by either drag and drop, or copy paste into the FTP folder from your local folder.
• Afterwards, either drag and drop or copy paste, you should see a confirmation that the file is being uploaded.

Need help in optimizing your feed and getting it to Kelkoo? We can help! Feel free to contact us.