This add-on includes 6 product feeds and a Google sitemap generator. From the admin interface (see attached screen shots) you can see when the feed was last generated, change settings, generate new feeds, and FTP them. You can even map an affiliate to a feed (the affiliate ID is appended to the URL), so you can then track clicks from that feed.

We call it a 'feed engine' because you can easily create new feeds in very little time. All source code is provided and is easily modified for your specific needs, even with a basic understanding of programming. For example, it's easy to exclude certain products from a feed. We've used the feed engine for integrating with other services like T-Hub and MyBuys, where we not only needed a product feed but also a category, cross sell, and daily order feed.

Product Feeds
The following 6 product feeds are included:

*Google Base - includes product review information, maps Type Properties to Google Base fields and uses the remaining properties as Google Base custom fields
*Bing Shopping
*TheFind - includes product review information and 'hot or not' sales rank information
*Commission Junction
*ChannelAdvisor
* and a 'generic' feed

Google sitemap
Includes all products, categories, custom pages, and the homepage; additional URLs can be included by adding them to a text file. You can even include your product images in the sitemap for use in Google's image search. As you can see from the attached screen shot you can set the default priority and change frequency. The category priority is set with decreasing priority based on how close it is to the homepage (e.g. homepage is 1.0, top-level categories are 0.9, second-level categories are 0.8, etc). Finally, you have the option of notifying Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Ask that your sitemap has been updated.

Pricing
$299 per site

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Sure, that's very doable. We don't have an existing plugin for that but we could very easily extend the feed engine to do this. What kind of RSS feed(s) do you want (e.g. newest products, featured/sale products, categories, latest product reviews, etc)?

One thing I might suggest when building these feeds is to add some toggle to the product so you have the ability to exclude some products you may not want to show in the feeds.

This site has a new product rss feed.
http://www.outdooroutfitters.com/NewProductRSSFeed.aspx
or as seen at feedburner
http://feeds.feedburner.com/OutdoorOutfittersNewProducts

I did modify the core here, internalproduct and product objects but there are other ways to get the toggle as well.

Have you made a feed for Amazon?

This is a great plugin for product feeds and sitemaps. It's handy, has a nice interface, and in a store with over 2000 products, it's fast. It's also easy to modify, if needed.



Linette

We have been using the feed engine plugin for a few months now and it works great. It has saved us a lot of time in creating the Google and Bing feeds for one of our clients. This is truely a great product. Easy to install, easy to use. Thanks Aaron! A++

Aaron is the site map constructed via a crawler or a search through the database? i am just wondering if it would index any of our static html pages for example.

Aaron,

I remember a while back we talked about T-Hub and quickbooks integration with the product feed tool. All of our machines are 64bit in the office and I've always had some issues with the quickbooks connector. Do you think T-Hub would be a better solution for getting just the customer information in to quickbooks? If we could have a solution to simplify the process of inputting an order from BV to quickbooks instead of typing everything over again, that would be awesome.

Curious... for the product feeds that get sent to google base and others, would it make sense to also add choices as products because they have unique SKUs?