How to connect the FAVI feed with easySales: product feed setup
List your furniture and home products on FAVI with an easySales feed: one shop per FAVI country, shipping, categories FAVI can place and the Feed URL.
What the FAVI feed does
FAVI is a comparison site for furniture and home products, with a site in each of its countries — favi.ro, favi.pl, favi.hu, favi.bg and others. Shoppers browse products there and click through to your online shop to buy. easySales builds the product file FAVI 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:
- One shop, one FAVI country. Prices go out in your shop's currency, as they are, and the texts in your shop's language. Connect the feed on the shop that sells in that FAVI country — a shop in lei for favi.ro, in złoty for favi.pl.
- FAVI lists a product only when it can place it in its own categories. Each product sends one category name from your shop, so specific names matter — see Step 3.
- Create the feed on your online shop's tab, not on Virtual Shop. FAVI sends shoppers to each product's page in your shop, and only your online shop's products carry that link.
Before you start
A FAVI shop account
Signed up on the FAVI site of your country.
Your online shop connected to easySales
In the currency and language of that FAVI country.
Products with specific categories and good photos
FAVI places products by category and shows the first image.
Step 1 — Connect the feed
Go to Products → Online Shops → Feed and choose the tab of your online shop. Press Connect on the FAVI card. The Connection tab has these fields:
| Field | What goes in it |
|---|---|
| Shipping Country | The country you deliver to — the country of your FAVI site. |
| Shipping service |
The name of your delivery, for example Curier.
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| Shipping and Currency |
The delivery cost and its currency, for example 19.99 and Romanian Leu. Type a plain number, or 0 for free delivery. Use your shop's currency.
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| Exclude products without stock | Yes leaves products without stock out of the file. With No, they go in as out of stock. |
| Exclude categories | Optional. Categories whose name should not be sent — see Step 3. |
Press Save.
Step 2 — Give FAVI 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 send it to your FAVI contact. Once your shop is active on FAVI, the address shows in your FAVI dashboard under Settings → XML Feed; to change it later, send the new address to your FAVI contact.
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, with its name as it is in your shop. FAVI uses it to place the product in its own categories, and a product it cannot place is not listed.
- Use specific category names for the type of product — Beds, Sofas, Dining tables.
- Exclude general categories — Promotions, New, or a room such as Bedroom — so the specific category is the one sent.
What goes into the file
Each active product of the shop is one offer in the file, with:
| In the file | Taken from |
|---|---|
| ID | The product's ID in easySales |
| Title, description and link | The product and its page in your shop |
| Image | The product's first image |
| Price | The sale price with VAT, in your shop's currency |
| Availability | In stock or out of stock |
| Brand, EAN and MPN | The product's brand, EAN and SKU |
| Category | The first category that is not excluded |
| Shipping | The Shipping Country, Shipping service, Shipping and Currency values |
To leave other products out, add a rule under Feed rules with exclude product from feed. To change the price for FAVI, 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. |
| FAVI does not list products of a category | The category name is too general. Exclude it, so a more specific category is sent, or give the products a more specific category in your shop. |
| Prices on FAVI are in the wrong currency | The feed sends your shop's currency. Connect the feed on the shop that sells in that FAVI country. |
| Products have no link on FAVI | The feed was created on the Virtual Shop tab. Delete it and connect it on your online shop's tab. |
| A product is missing from the feed | Check that it is active, that it has stock when Exclude products without stock is Yes, and that no rule excludes it. |
| FAVI rejects product images | FAVI wants real product photos of at least 600 × 600 px, without text or watermarks. The first image of each product is the one sent. |