Importing Your Product Feed
Once you’ve setup your feed correctly, it’s time to import your product feed to bluebarry. If you’re having trouble setting up your product feed, be sure to check out this article for a step-by-step guide.
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Using a live product feed
To keep your product data automatically up to date, such as when prices change or new products are added often, use the live feed option.
Make sure you apply the following steps:
- Click ‘add product feed”
- Select ‘use live feed’
- Add product feed name
- Add live feed link url
- Select a unique identifier
- click on ‘save’
- Sync the feed so that feed will be imported in bluebarry.
Adding new columns to your live feed
Whenever you add new columns (properties) to your live feed, you need to make sure you map these new attributes in bluebarry, before they become available in your advisors.
Integration > products > edit feed > add mapping of new property
Verify if your column is mapped correctly
Bluebarry will attempt to automatically match (or “map”) the columns in your feed with the fields we use.
You just need to confirm that each field is correctly recognized. Or in case that the fields are not yet mapped, you need to map them manually.
Check Required Fields
- Product Name → Product Name
- URL → URL
- Image URL → Image URL
- Price → Numeric
Check Additional Attributes
- If you have a “Volume” column, it should be mapped to a text or numeric field (depending on your data format).
- “Discount Price” should be recognized as numeric if you include it.
If anything looks off, you can manually adjust the mapping before saving.
Using a manual product feed import
It’s possible to manually import your product feed into bluebarry by using a .CSV file. Make sure to follow these steps:
- Export your feed as a .CSV file from your CMS, a feed management system like Channable, or a manually-built product feed in Google Sheets or Excel.
- Go to your bluebarry account and follow the on-screen instructions to upload your file.
- Check your mapping
- Make sure Product Name is mapped to “Product Name.”
- Make sure Product Page URL is mapped to “URL.”
- Make sure Image URL is mapped to “Image URL.”
- Make sure Price is mapped as a numeric value (not text).
- Double-check any extra attributes (like Volume, Brand, etc.) are also mapped correctly to a numeric or text value.
