Setting up feeds for Galaxus

This guide will walk you through creating and manage your product listings for Galaxus using Channable. We will cover the setup of the four necessary feeds, optimizing your data, and ensuring everything is in place to successfully send your listings to Galaxus.

Table of Contents

• Preparation
• Understanding the Galaxus feeds
• Set up your Galaxus feeds
  • Stammdaten + Medien + Deklarationen
  • Preisdaten + Bestandsdaten
  • Spezifikationen
  • Zubehör (Optional)
• Product data requirements for Galaxus
• GPSR and DSA requirements
• Product variants for Galaxus (Optional) 
• Activate your feeds, copy the URL and follow best practices

Preparation

Before you begin, ensure the following:

• Only Galaxus-approved partners (dealers/suppliers) are allowed to sell on Galaxus. Contact Galaxus to get approval: anmelden@digitecgalaxus.ch.
• ensure that you have valid EAN numbers for all your products. Without these identification numbers, your products cannot be listed on Galaxus.

Understanding the Galaxus feeds

To successfully send your products to Galaxus, you will need the following 4 feeds in Channable:

• Stammdaten + Medien + Deklarationen (core data + media + declarations)
• Preisdaten + Bestandsdaten (price data + stock data)
• Spezifikationen (specifications)
• Zubehör (equipment)

Step 1: Set up your Galaxus feeds

The setup of all 4 feeds is the same till the Type of market comes in, Follow the order described below for setting up te feeds.

1. Stammdaten + Medien + Deklarationen
2. Preisdaten + Bestandsdaten
3. Spezifikationen
4. Zubehör

Key things to keep in mind:

• Skipping the Category step: For all Galaxus feeds, the Category step can be ommited, as Galaxus does not require platform-specific categories.
• Excluding products: If you exclude products in one feed, the rules that lead to the product exclusion must be copied to all other feeds. If you do not do this, the data will not ransfer correctly to Galaxus. You can create the rules once and then copy them to the other feeds. Here’s an article about copying rules.

General feed setup

Now let’s go through the general steps to set up a feed:

1. Navigate to Feeds > Add new feed and search for 'Galaxus'.
   

2. Now fill in the following information:

   • Country: Select the country where you are going to sell.
   • Name the feed: Give your feed a name that helps you easily recognize its type (e.g., “Galaxus – Stammdaten”).
   • Type of market: Decide which Galaxus feed you are setting up. 
   • Then click on Continue to create the new feed.

After setting up the first feed, repeat the same process for the remaining three feeds. Now, let us move on to the specific setup for each feed.

Step 1.1: Stammdaten + Medien + Deklarationen

Step 1.2: Preisdaten + Bestandsdaten

Step 1.3: Spezifikationen

You can now choose to set up the optional Zubehör feed to link accessories to your main products, or read about the product data requirements, Where we will go in depth on what Galaxus expects in certain fields.

Zubehör (Optional)

Product data requirements for Galaxus

To ensure your products meet Galaxus' listing standards, it is important to follow specific requirements for fields such as product images, titles, and other key fields. Below is a overview of both required and optional fields necessary for successfully setting up your Galaxus feeds. Please note that the available mapping fields vary depending on the feed type chosen during setup.

All products (required)

• Brand name - The name of the brand, up to a maximum of 100 characters.
• Product image - The main product image URL must meet the following requirements:
  • The image should be a cropped, frontal shot of the product against a white background.
  • Accepted formats include: JPEG, JPG, and PNG.
  • File size must not exceed 8 MB per image.
  • The longest edge of the image must be at least 600px, and the file size must not exceed 8 MB.
  • 3D images are not supported.
  • Do not include placeholders, advertising texts, promotional overlays, logos, watermarks, awards, or generic images.
  • Images with several variant products (e.g. several colour variants of a product) are not allowed.
• Product title (German) - The product name should be in German, and up to 100 characters (e.g., "iPhone 12 Pro"). The guidelines include:
  • Ensure proper spelling and capitalization, using title case (e.g., "Nitro Ultra Turbo Extra 2023").
  • It's recommended to define an 'imaginary' name for products with the same category name.
  • Manufacturer part numbers can be included if they form part of the product name.
  • Product titles should be consistent and stripped of brand, category, specifications (size, color, etc.), and special offers.
    Note: Consistent product titles are key for grouping variants automatically. If titles differ, use the Variant name attribute to manually group them.
• Weight - The product weight in grams, up to a maximum of 100 characters (e.g., 250).

All products (optional)

• Category - Uses machine learning to automatically assign categories. Categories should be provided in German where possible, but English is accepted.
• Color - The product's color. For multiple colors, separate values with a semicolon or hyphen (e.g., "blue;red;yellow" or "blue-red-yellow").
• Color code - The main color code of the product.
• Composition (English, French, German, and Italian) - A description of the product's materials in one of the four supported languages, up to 4,000 characters. Basic HTML formatting is allowed, but URLs and bullet points are not.
• Country of origin - The two-letter code of the product’s country of manufacture (e.g., DE, FR, NL).
• Dead-on-arrival period - The number of days for the dead-on-arrival policy if the product arrives damaged (e.g., 3 days).
• Height/length/width (cm) - The dimensions of the product in centimeters.
• Long description (English, French, German, and Italian) - The product description in one of the supported languages, up to 4,000 characters. Requirements:
  • Include essential information and keywords within the first 160-500 characters.
  • Ensure the content is unique and not duplicated.
  • Avoid "we/us" perspectives and all-capital text.
  • Avoid HTML tags or formatting.
  • Do not use the word "new"; instead, use phrasing like "successor model of...".
  • Avoid trademarks, copyright symbols, retailer names, or price details.
• Manufacturer key - The manufacturer part number (MPN), between 4 and 50 characters.
• Material - The product's material (e.g., aluminum).
• Minimum age (France, Germany, and Italy) - The product's minimum age requirement in years (e.g., 13).
• Nutritional value (English, French, German, and Italian) - A description of the product's nutritional content.
• Product images 2-8 - Additional product image URLs. Requirements are the same as for the main product image.
• Product remark - Any additional remarks about the product.
• Product title in English/French/Italian - The product title in another supported language, following the same guidelines as for the German title.
• Release date (English, French, German, and Italian) - The release date for new products, displayed on the product detail page.
• Return type - The product's return type, selected from fixed values (e.g., bring in, onsite, pick-up and return).
• Size - The product size (e.g., small, medium, S, M, L).
• Target group - The product's target audience (e.g., men, women, children).
• Tares code - The Swiss commodity code (TARIC) for EU-hub providers, up to 14 characters.
• TARIC code - The Swiss customs tariff number, up to 9 characters.
• Country of origin - The country of production, in ISO format (e.g., DE, NL).
• Warranty period - The product's warranty period in months (e.g., 24 months).

Offer

Required

• Purchase price excl. VAT - The product's purchase price excluding VAT.
• Sales price excl. VAT - The sales price of the retail pack, excluding VAT.

Optional

• Restock date - The date when the product will be restocked.
• Minimum order quantity - The minimum quantity required for purchase.
• Order quantity steps - The intervals in which the product can be ordered (e.g., 5, 10, 20).
• VAT rate percentage - The VAT rate as an integer, without the percentage sign.

For more information on product data requirements for Galaxus, refer to their help center.

GPSR and DSA requirements

The European Union (EU) has introduced new GPSR and DSA requirements for online platforms, including marketplaces. 

In the Finalize step of your Galaxus feed setup in Channable, make sure to map an ‘Internal field’ to each of the following ‘Channel fields’:

• TARICCode: Enter the commodity code for the EU area. 11 characters (without spaces) or 14 characters (with spaces).
• CountryOfOrigin: Enter the country code of the country of production.

Step 2: Product variants for Galaxus (Optional)

When setting up your feeds for Galaxus, you have the option to configure product variants for product listings. For detailed instructions on how to set up and manage product variants, refer to this section of our Galaxus guide.

Step 3: Activate your feeds, copy the URL and follow best practices

Once the Galaxus feeds are set up, activate them in the Settings tab. Then run the feeds, copy the URL's from the Preview step. and insert them into Galaxus.

To streamline your Galaxus feeds setup, refer to the Galaxus guide: product variants and best practices. This article in addition to product variants outlines common rules and best practices for setting up Galaxus feeds.