More Information About CJ Feeds

I just got in the swing of learning more about these CommissionJunction feeds, can anyone shed more light on this topic for me please. I would greatly appreciate it. Besides the fact that its $200 for access into it, how does the whole thing work and am I able to upload these CSV's using CSV importers to different E-Commerce system.

Thanks everyone for your help...

 

You need to contact CJ support and they send you this email back:

 

So okay:

1. They take the $200 out of my account balance right?
2. Whenever I want to obtain more feeds from other advertisers I have to request it from them through the contact us page?
3. What I mean about osCommerce parsing these feeds is, does anyone know if osCommerce has a feature that allows me to import the CSV's? And is it really that simple (taking the CSV product catalogs and importing it using a CSV importer?)

If you could answers these 2 for me please I'd very much appreciate it. Thanks.

 

Oops. makes no sense to me. Whats this all about?

 

1. Correct. They take $200 of your account balance.
2. You can additional feeds (as long as the merchant has product feeds available.. not all do). They'll add it to your zip file and will be available on the next feed update. They update feeds once a week. And yes, you would request a new feed via the contact area at CJ.
3. I don't have much experience with osCommerce.. but I remember it being a major pain. I guess it depends on your coding skills. But I would write a script that pulls the feed from CJ, and updates your osCommerce database via PHP. Basically categories won't match up with the categories from your feed, and pricing will change etc, so you'll need to massage that data into your osCommerce application.

hanji

 

^^ Not bad, thank you. The part that I hate though is the fact that you'd actually have to request each feed from CJ, can't you just pull the updated data feed off of the advertiser's page? If not, that sucks that you have to ask for CJ to give it to you (cause we all know what kind of delay they sometimes are working with.)

Anyway, about the osCommerce, I am not coder so yeah. But that does sound good (writing a addon so that you can have your database automatically updated.) If anything, I'd find a standard store that would be much easier to work with because with osCommerce, I'd have to remove a lot of functions (checkout, shipping, billing, shopping cart, etc.)

Thanks again and if anyone else has anymore information, let me know

 

Hey,
Great post, wanted to ask few things about it.

I saw this website:
bountii.com

And i came up with an idea, to make a search engine for products, but ones that i will get commission for.
CJ.com gives a products data feed? if so is it come with META info?

 

Yeah, this topic is getting more exposure then I expected...

 

Hey,
It should do, there are a lot of disinformation about CJ Feeds.
To bad there is no any representative agent of CJ here.