Monetate Feed Specifications

The Product ID must match what Monetate collects on “Product Detail” and “Search” pages. Monetate determines what is appropriate for product_ids during integration. This is typically not a SKU, but a higher-level identifier that identifies groups of products before further refinement based on size or color.

• Maximum length of 32 characters
• Only alphanumeric (a-z, A-Z, or 0-9), forward slash(/), underscore (_), dash(-), and period (.) characters are acceptable.

• “1135813”
• “AAABBCCDD”
• “AbZ190-430_mm/89.pid”

• “Deluxe Stereo Headphones”
• “Portable Music Player”
• “Electric Shaving Kit”

 Monetate has no pre-determined idea of what categories are meaningful for your products or business and does not restrict your categories in any way. This is used for targeting product categories in experiences.

• Each category is defined within its own container.
• Individual “Category Names” have a maximum length of 128 characters.
• There is no limit on number of categories per product.
• Multiple names must be separated with pipes (|).

• “Electronics”
• “Automotive”
• “Clothing|Pants|Men’s Pants”

•  The current price of the product in decimal format
• For retail or strikethrough price, use alt_price
• Monetate does not support pricing beyond active price and alternate price.

• “33.5011
• “100.00”
• “0.50”

• Full URL to the Product Detail page
• Should include both the scheme and host portions of the URL

• “http://www.monetate.com/products/123”
• “http://www.monetate.com/running shoe.html”
• “http://www.monetate.com/products/diving_watch.htm”

• Full URL to a product image
• Should include both the scheme and host portions of the URL

• “http://www.monetate.com/images/products/123.jpg”
• “http://www.monetate.com/images/house.png”
• “http:/www.monetate.com/example.gif”

•  A description of the product with a maximum length of 1024 characters
• Should be plain text only (No HTML)

•  “A lovely example of modern elegance and style”
• “Red”
• ”The latest electronics craze-this stereo is all the rage!”

• An alternate price for display purposes only
• Must be in decimal format

• “33.50”
• “100.00”
• “0.50”

• Maximum length of 128 characters
• Only alphanumeric (a-z, A-Z, or 0-9) characters are acceptable.
• Category id needs to be unique per category name
• Multiple category IDs must be separated with pipes (|).

• “1135813”
• “AAABBCCDD”
• “AbZ190430mm89”

• Denotes whether an item is in-stock or out-of-stock
• Out-of-stock ttems will not be present in endcaps.
• Acceptable values indude “In Stock” and “Out of Stock”
• Other values such as “Presale” may be used, but they are equivalent to “Out of Stock”

• “In Stock”
• “Out of Stock”
• “Presale”