Submit listings to Bing Shopping

[wcw]

Re: Submit listings to Bing Shopping

If you open the file with notepad and save it, that should work for you.

[Red Flare]

Re: Submit listings to Bing Shopping

Hello forum: Has anyone gotten the following error when submitting a Bing shopping feed?
File is formatted in Unix. Submit a feed in Dos\Windows formatting and UTF-8 encoding

We did, but I now can't remember how we solved the problem.
Inquiring minds want to know.

Larry

Larry,
Would it be possible to post the feed header from your Template data feed module that you use to generate Bing feed?
I have one running from Google shopping and it looks like this...

link%^%title%^%description%^%image_link%^%category%^%price%^%id%^%expiration_date%^%label%^%model_number%^%upc%^%brand%^%condition%^%product_type%^%tax_percent%^%tax_region%^%payment_accepted%^%payment_notes

thanks!

[wajake41]

Re: Submit listings to Bing Shopping

This is our Bing feed header from the Emporium Plus Template data Feed:
MerchantProductID%^%Title%^%Brand%^%MPN%^%UPC%^%SK U%^%ProductURL%^%Price%^%Description%^%ImageURL%^% Shipping%^%MerchantCategory%^%BingCategory%^%Condi tion%^%ShippingWeight

You can see the actual feed file at www.rvparksupplies.com/bingshopping.txt.

Incidentally, I believe that Bing requires that the feed file be named bingshopping.txt

We never open the file with Wordpad to convert it and we run our feed once a week. I believe that my client had Bing support make some setting or something to fix this. As you have found, Bing support really sucks but eventually something was done and Bing now accepts our Template data Feed as generated.
BTW, Bing support initially gave us the same answer that you got about using Wordpad.

Wish I could remember more about how this was solved. I tried the Bing forum this morning and it too is pretty useless.

Larry

[ameliajack]

Re: Submit listings to Bing Shopping

Traffic is the heart of the Internet business. You have to get bodies in the shop if you're going to sell the goods. In straightforward, simple terms, the more visitors our website receives, the more of your images we'll sell.