2017 has been a full year at DataFeedWatch. We’ve grown a lot and our teams worked relentlessly to make DataFeedWatch the best feed optimization tool there is.
It has been also the year that we learned that we need to communicate more. We always work like crazy adding new integrations and new features to our tool, but we often kept it silent.
We preferred letting the tool speak for itself, but we realized that we need to talk more about our newly added features.
Not to blow our own horn, but because it is crucial that users are always aware of the choices they have at hand for better managing their feeds.
In case you have missed them, we have the list of the most important updates we announced last year:
The preview feature is probably the one that got the most love from our customers. It saves time, hassle and it’s intuitive.
With DataFeedWatch Preview our users can now see how an attribute will look at the customer’s end on the shopping engine from within the feed.
Initially, we released it for the feed mapping page, but due to popular request we will soon extend it to the Category and Exclude Products pages.
Allows merchants to exclude all variants of a product from your feed if a specific variant or a certain percentage of all variants go out of stock.
Not only does it give retailers a higher degree of control over the products they want to exclude from their feeds, but it is a low hanging fruit that has the potential to improve shopping feed performance overnight.
Continue reading about associated variants to see:
DataFeedWatch Merchants can now upload their inventory fast and easy to eBay through the Merchant Integration Platform (MIP) in Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, United Kingdom, India, United States and Russia.
Head to our full post if you want to know more about:
Marktplaats is one of the top 10 most prominent websites in The Netherlands. While not as prominent in Belgium, it is still an important online selling channel.
We already fully support the integration on the Dutch market, but for the Belgian territory, the marketplace was previously available through a standard feed upload.
Read more if you want to know more about:
Longer than/shorter than is a simple, yet efficient rule that is helpful for feed optimization rules related to character limitations:
Mid-autumn we announced the upgrade of our navigation. The new layout makes it easier for users to find their way around the tool and to separate the navigation from the pages they are working on.
The new design has an updated look and is more responsive and intuitive.
The major navigation uplift brought:
This is the type of internal update that we usually don’t make a big fuss about. But, improving the speed and therefore the efficiency and productivity of our users, is highly important to us. This update was responsible for:
DataFeedWatch full integration with VersaCommerce Shopping Cart will make multi-channel marketing effortless for all German online merchants.
Thanks to the integration, VersaCommerce merchants can now scale their omnichannel presence faster and easier.
This summer we introduced new in-app icons to help our users manage better their feeds by having quicker access to all our resources:
While a lot of merchants are still using Magento 1, it's just a matter of time before they migrate to Magento 2.
If you have already migrated or you are still pondering whether you should make the move now or later head to our post. We cover:
By now everyone has got so used to the new interface that they’ve probably forgotten how the older interface looked. Last March when we launched the new interface we made some important changes:
Deploying DataFeedWatch with inRiver can lead to higher web search conversion rates. As enterprises enrich their product information, they offer more detailed product descriptions which result in more specific and satisfying search results.
Thank you for your support during a momentous year and we look forward to working with you in 2018.