Profile: shoecake

As a related issue, i can't get "Shipping price" to display anything. I have one shipping provider (Shipping by weight). This  does have multiple shipping methods, but only one for the default country.

Is there a way to get the shipping for the default country in this situation?


One other solution is if I could write my own "post processing action" function? If there was an API for adding my own post processing code that would add a whole new level of flexibility.

I am creating a feed for eBay using the FileExchange template and want to provide free shipping. To do this I wan to combine the product price and shipping price in one field. E.g. if the product costs £10 and thew shipping is £5 then the field would have £15 in it.

i.e. I want to add together the two field names "Price" and "Shipping Price". I have looked into the new formula token in 1.52 but I don't think it will handle this.

I've re-downloaded from the https://www.foxnetsoft.com/customer/downloadableproducts page and it apears to be the same files (i did a file comparison).
Can you check if it is available.

p.s. I am busy for most of tomorrow, so I may not get time to look until Monday.

Thanks for such a quick turnaround. I have done some initial testing and have come up with the following. Note, I have not tried an upload yet but I will do that this afternoon.

In the child items there is no distinction for key fields. i.e the product name, description and image are all the same.

Product Name
Could you append the product attribute value to the product name (e.g. “Jute Bag – Large (pink)” where pink is the attribute value). Is there some way of creating composite fields? Then I could do this in the feed definition.

Picture
Currently the main product picture is used for all, can the link be to the picture specified in the product attributes value record.

Description
I don’t think there is anything to be done about the description field as this would have to be hand written. It would be nice to be able to edit the overridden feed values at the product attribute combination level as well as the product level but I can see this would be a lot of extra work.

The parent_child and relationship_type fields
I have always left these blank when a variation is not being created (i.e. simple products). From the spreadsheet docs on parent_child - “If the product does not participate in a variation relationship, use the value child.” At the moment, parent is the default.
I am not sure if the relationship_type field will be accepted as variation with no parent record, I will test this.

Bug
The quantity field is being populated from the main product (even though it is set to track by product attribute combination) so this value is invalid. Although I do not use it, the inventory export also has this issue.


One final suggestion, the default of the update_delete field is “Update” which is the default Amazon have. I find this highly dangerous and always thought it should default to “PartialUpdate”. I have wiped key data for a large section of my listings in the past because of this simple error (not with your plugin) and there is no way to get it back from Amazon.

I have found a link here https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=200779220 which has some good info on how variations work.

I have also downloaded the "Home and Decor" xls filesheet which is used to upload the data. If you look on the "Data Definitions" and "Valid Values" tabs then there is lots of info on how it works.

You can get it at https://s3.amazonaws.com/seller-templates/ff/na/us/Flat.File.Home.xlsm

I've found an old spreadsheet from 2014 I used to upload a variation before and I will email it over to you now.


I am happy to upload some sample files if you need to test anything.

OK, I'll look it up and get back to you. It's fairly simple, just adding another row to the report which references the variant products.

Thanks. It is the "Amazon - Home, Home Decor, Kitchen & Garden" template.

Just to clarify, it is not grouped products in nopCommerce, but Product Attributes of a single product. I am not sure it you meant this or variations in Amazon.



So it would be ideal for it to apear like this listing in Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HQHBNFG But if it was seperate listings then that is OK also.

I know a variation in Amazon like above is created in the feed by a separate row for each listing and then another row to group them together.

Does the feed manager support products with product attributes? i.e export each product attribute combination as a separate product?

An example product is https://www.stitchtastic.com/store/jute-bag-medium

As you can see, this is the same item in 3 different colours. Each colour is in fact a separate product with its own SKU, GTIN and MPN. In order to import these into Amazon, I would need to import 3 separate products, i.e. 3 separate lines in the amazon feed.

Is this possible?

Using the latest release and updating the Dll, feeds.xml and google.xml has fixed the issue now. Thanks very much.

I've used the latest google.xml file and it is transforming "inStock" to "In Stock" but that is not the issue. The problem is it is transforming "Preorder" to "In Stock. It is as if the xml for the availability is being set in code and not from the data in the xml file.

I will email over some screenshots to show what I mean.