How to use AI Feed Setup

Learn how to use AI Feed Setup to automatically map fields, apply fixes, and review solutions for Google Shopping and Meta Online Products feeds.

Using AI we can automate setting up your feed in Channable. We automatically map fields, transform values, and extract values. This greatly reduces the time spent to go live and helps your products get listed on the channel you’re setting up.

Before you start

• Understand what AI setup does: Learn what checks that are done on your fields based on Google and Meta requirements
• AI feed setup is only available for Google Shopping feeds and Meta Online Products setups

  • Available for these markets types:

    • Google Shopping: Standard, Fashion, and Books
    • Meta Online Products: All markets
• You can review the AI solutions in the Review solutions section in the Preview & export step:

  • Depending on your product data, sometimes AI cannot fully complete some steps and you may need to create some manual solutions.

What AI setup does

AI setup performs these checks on your fields:

Google Shopping

Google Merchant Center has specific field and format requirements for product data.

Field name	Issue checked by AI	Solution
all fields	Must be mapped	AI mapping: Attempted automatically for every AI feed setup
description	No HTML allowed	AI rule: Automatically strips HTML from description
description	Max 5,000 characters	AI rule: Strips to 5,000 characters (last sensible word intact)
description	Min 500 characters	Action: Redirect to AI generated text to improve field values
description	No links allowed	AI rule: Automatically strips links from description
title	No HTML allowed	AI rule: Automatically strips HTML from title
title	Max 150 characters	AI rule: Strips to 150 characters (keeping last word intact)
title	Min 35 characters	Action: Redirect to AI generated text to improve field values
price / sale price / shipping price / bulk price	Currency must match target country	Manual fix: Fix via quality checks in Quality step
color	Alphanumeric characters only (no special characters)	Manual fix: Fix via quality checks in Quality step
color / material	Separated by "/" instead of ","	AI rule: Replaces "," with "/"
shipping width / height / length / weight	Follow required unit format (kg, lb, etc.)	AI rule: Automatically converts units (e.g. kilograms to kg)
shipping country	Must be mapped	Mapping: Map available field or auto-input target country
unit pricing measure / base measure	Must contain a unit	AI rule: Automatically converts units (e.g. kilograms to kg)
additional image links	Should not include Main Image URL	AI rule: Removes main Image URL from additional links
additional image links	Should be split as a list	AI rule: Splits by separator into a vertical list
g:mpn / g:id	No whitespaces allowed	AI rule: Trims whitespaces from the field
color / material / brand / age / gender	Fields are empty	Action: Use AI enriched attributes to extract data from other fields
condition	Must be mapped	Mapping: Option to set static value to "new" (also if condition is empty)
condition	Must be "new", "used", or "refurbished"	AI rule: Transforms values to supported terms
availability	Must be "in_stock", "out_of_stock", etc.	AI rule: Transforms values to supported terms
age group	Must match supported values	AI rule: Transforms values to supported terms
gender	Must match supported values	AI rule: Transforms values to supported terms
subscription period	Must be "month" or "year"	AI rule: Transforms values to supported terms
sale price	Must be lower than Price	Manual fix: Fix via quality checks in Quality step

Meta

Meta has specific field and format requirements for product data.

Field name	Issue checked by AI	Solution
all fields	Must be mapped	AI mapping: Attempted automatically for every AI feed setup
description	No HTML allowed	AI rule: Automatically strips HTML from description
description	Max 9,999 characters	AI rule: Strips to 9,999 characters (last sensible word intact)
description	No links allowed	AI rule: Automatically strips links from description
description	Cannot be in all caps	AI rule: Capitalizes only the first letter of every sentence
title	No HTML allowed	AI rule: Automatically strips HTML from title
title	Max 200 characters	AI rule: Strips to 200 characters (last sensible word intact)
title	Cannot be in all caps	AI rule: Capitalizes only the first letter of every sentence
color, material, pattern, decor, gemstone, height	Alphanumeric only (no special characters)	Manual fix: Fix via Quality checks
color, material	Must be split as a list	AI rule: Transforms separator (e.g. , or /) into a list
height, length, width, volume, screen size, shipping weight, storage capacity	Follow required unit format	AI rule: Automatically converts units (e.g. kilograms to kg)
unit price value	Must be a valid number	Manual fix: Fix via quality checks in Quality step
shipping country	Must be mapped	Mapping: Map existing field or auto-input target country
unit price currency	Must be a valid currency code	Manual fix: Fix via quality checks in Quality step
price / sale price / shipping / unit price	Currency must match target country	Manual fix: Fix via quality checks in Quality step
additional image links	Should not include Main Image URL	AI rule: Removes Main Image URL from additional links
additional image links	Should be split as a list	AI rule: Splits by separator into a vertical list
g:mpn / g:id	No whitespaces allowed	AI rule: Trims whitespaces from the field
color, material, brand, age group, gender	Fields are empty	Action: Redirect to AI enriched attributes to extract data from other fields
condition	Must be mapped	Mapping: Option to set static value to "new" (also if condition is empty)
condition	Must be "new", "used", or "refurbished"	AI rule: Transforms values to supported terms
availability	Must be "in stock" or "out of stock" Must be mapped	AI rule: Transforms values to supported terms Mapping: Option to set to static value (if availability is empty)
age group	Must match supported values	AI rule: Transforms values to supported terms
gender	Must match supported values	AI rule: Transforms values to supported terms
sale price	Must be lower than Price	Manual fix: Fix via quality checks in Quality step

Step 1: Create your channel and Settings

1. Go to [your project] > Channels.
2. Click + Create channel.

   1. Select "Google Shopping" or "Meta Online Products".

      
   2. If you select Google Shopping, make sure to select Feed in the “Channel selection” modal.
   3. In the Settings step, fill in:

      1. Feed name
      2. Target country
      3. Type of market: the specific category or sector of the retail market for your products.
3. At AI setup, click the toggle to the on position to use AI to set up your channel.
4. Click Save to continue and AI will start setting up your channel for you. The steps Categories, Mapping, Rules and Quality are “skipped” and you are automatically navigated to the Preview & export step.

   

Step 2: Preview & export

AI progress

Once you are navigated to the Preview & export step, AI starts setting up your channel and the AI progress section indicates the progress of each step. It may take a moment to start running.

Once AI has finished setting up your channel, each step indicates how successful the setup was, as well as any items that could not be managed by AI, issues that came up and manual solutions that are needed.

You can click on the progress items such as Fields mapped to view, for example, which fields were mapped by AI, or Rules created to view the rules that AI created.

Step 3: How to review the AI setup

The Your next steps section indicates what you need to do next (manually) to complete your channel setup.

Categorize manually

The Categories step is where all your products are categorized according to the channel’s category tree so that your products are recognized and listed properly.

At Items categorized, if you have the label “[x] not categorized", click Categories → to go to the Categories step to and manually categorize the remaining items.

Tip: Learn more about the Categories step.

Map manually

The Mapping step is where you map/match the internal Channable fields with the fields that your chosen channel requires. If the Mandatory fields are not mapped, or the data is incorrect or incomplete, the channel will not accept or list your items.

At Items categorized, if you have the label “[x] not mapped", click Mapping → to go to the Mapping step to and manually categorize the remaining items.

Tip: Learn more about field mapping and the Mapping step.

Review solutions

Click Review AI solutions to go to an overview of the AI solutions that are ready to be applied to your setup.

You can check/uncheck the checkboxes to include or exclude solutions from being applied. To use all of these solutions, click Apply solutions to apply them in bulk.

Note: If a solution requires the extraction of a title or a description (using AI text generation), the Core Plus plan

Fix listing issues

The Quality step indicates how complete and accurate your product data is, based on channel requirements.

Click Quality → to go to the Quality step to solve the issues. Some of these issues may require manual fixes that you need to complete.

Tip: Learn more about the Quality step.