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Setting up a Custom CSV feed

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What do I use a custom feed for? If you want to create custom output of a feed in the format of a CSV feed, you can set up a custom CSV feed in Channable with the following steps.

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Step 1: Create a custom CSV feed

  1. Go to [Your project] > Channels in the bar in the main navigation.
  2. Click +Create channel.
  3. In the search bar, search "Custom CSV" and select the Custom (CSV) feed.
  4. At Feed name, add a name for your feed. 
  5. Select your Target country from the dropdown.
    Tip: The country that you select is fixed, which means that if you want to sell your products in another country, you need to create a new feed and select that country at this step.
  6. At the Delimiter field, the default is set to "comma" ( , ). If you want to use another delimiter, select one of the options in the dropdown. These options are available as the delimiter:
    • comma ( , )
    • pipe ( | )
    • semicolon ( ; )
    • tab
  7. Click Continue to add the feed.

Step 2: Categories

For custom feeds, it is not mandatory to set up the categories. However, if you do wish to set up categories you can do that in this step and the resulting categories will be Google product categories. You can set up categories using the generate categories function or by manually adding categories.

Step 3: Rules

After categorizing your products, you can create different rules to optimize your product data.

Tip: We've put together a list of commonly used rules.

Step 4: Mapping

In the Mapping step of the feed you will choose which fields you want to add to your feed. You can click +Auto-add all fields to automatically add all the internal fields to your feed, or you can +Add new field to add internal fields one by one.

After adding the fields you can provide them with a channel field name. The channel field name is the tag that will be used for the field in the CSV feed.

Step 5: Activate your feed and get the feed URL

In order to activate the custom CSV feed, the project has to be activated:

  1. Go to Settings and click Activate project.
  2. Go to Feeds > Your custom CSV feed > Preview and click Activate feed.
  3. Once you activate your project and feed, feed URL will show.