How to connect the Compari feed with easySales: product feed setup
List your products on compari.ro with an easySales feed: the feed or the marketplace, shipping, categories, the Feed URL and the feed rules that help.
What the Compari feed does
Compari.ro is a price-comparison site: shoppers compare offers there and click through to your online shop to buy. easySales builds the product file Compari reads — names, categories, prices, images and links from your online shop — and keeps it at a fixed address, the Feed URL.
Three things to know before you begin:
- Compari sorts your products by their category. Each product sends one category name, and Compari matches it to its own categories. Specific names work; general or mixed ones — such as All products or Promotions — do not. Step 3 shows how to get this right.
- In Shipping, type a number or
gratuit— never0. Compari does not accept0as a delivery cost. - Create the feed on your online shop's tab, not on Virtual Shop. Compari sends shoppers to each product's page in your shop, and only your online shop's products carry that link.
Before you start
A Compari partner account
Your shop registered with compari.ro.
Your online shop connected to easySales
The feed takes its products, links and images from it.
Products with specific categories, brands and SKUs
Compari sorts by category and recognises each product by its SKU.
Step 1 — Connect the feed
Go to Products → Online Shops → Feed and choose the tab of your online shop. Press Connect on the Compari card. The Connection tab has these fields:
| Field | What goes in it |
|---|---|
| Shipping |
The delivery cost shown on Compari for every product: a number, such as 15 or 15 RON, or gratuit for free delivery. Not 0, not a range and not text such as de la 15.
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| Shipping days |
Leave it at 1. Compari shows every product in the feed as in stock.
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| Exclude categories | Optional. Categories whose name should not be sent — see Step 3. |
| Exclude product tags | Optional. A product is left out of the feed when every one of its tags is in this list. |
Press Save.
Step 2 — Give Compari your Feed URL
Back on the Feed page, the card shows the Feed URL and, once the file is ready, Last generated with its date and time. The first file is ready within the hour after you save.
When Last generated appears, copy the Feed URL and add it as your product list in your Compari partner account. Compari's team then sorts your categories into its own, which takes a few working days.
Step 3 — Get the categories right
For each product, easySales sends one category: the first of the product's categories that is not in Exclude categories. Two tools decide what Compari sees:
- Exclude categories — exclude broad parent or general categories, such as Home, Promotions or All products, so the more specific category is the one sent.
- Feed rules — to send a clearer name, open the feed with Edit, then Feed rules → Create a new rule: If category is equal with that category → set category to a clearer name, such as a product type.
What goes into the file
Each active product of the shop with stock is one offer in the file, with:
| In the file | Taken from |
|---|---|
| Identifier and product number | The product's SKU |
| Manufacturer | The product's brand |
| Category | The first category that is not excluded, or the value a rule sets |
| Name, description and link | The product and its page in your shop |
| Images | All the product's images |
| Price | The sale price with VAT, in RON — the product's own VAT rate if it has one |
| Delivery cost | The Shipping value |
| EAN | The product's EAN, when it has one |
Products without stock stay out, and every product in the file is shown as in stock. To leave other products out, add a rule with exclude product from feed. To change the price for Compari, write the rule on sale price or tax rate.
When something does not look right
| Symptom | What to do |
|---|---|
| The Feed URL answers "Feed generation in progress..." | The first file is not ready yet. Wait until Last generated appears on the card. |
| Compari does not list products of a category | The category is too general or mixed. Exclude it, so the more specific category is sent, or send a clearer name with a rule. |
| Compari refuses the delivery cost |
Type a number or gratuit in Shipping — not 0.
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| A product lost its position on Compari | Its SKU changed. Compari sees a new SKU as a new product, so keep SKUs unchanged. |
| A product is missing from the feed | Check that it is active and has stock, and that no rule or product tag excludes it. |
| Products have no link on Compari | The feed was created on the Virtual Shop tab. Delete it and connect it on your online shop's tab. |