Product Catalog Datasets

Monetate highly recommends that you implement a product catalog because doing so unlocks additional capabilities within the platform. A product catalog is required for Product Recommendations , Personalized Search, and certain other features. U...

Monetate's product catalog specification is loosely based on Google's product data specification . If you're a Personalized Search client, then refer to Preparing a Product Catalog for Personalized Search in Personalized S...

The first step of uploading a new product catalog to Monetate is creating a product catalog schema. A schema is the organization or structure of the data in the product catalog and must be present in the platform before you send a full catalog f...

If you need to add or update rows in a product catalog dataset, you can perform a partial update through the Data API , via SFTP , or by using the Upload Data wizard in the platform. If you need to add columns, also called attribute...

You can perform two types of updates for a product catalog: Full update — Replaces the entire catalog with the next successfully processed full file that the platform ingests Partial update — Adds rows or updates rows with t...

You must create a product catalog schema in the platform before you can update a product catalog via the Data API. You cannot create the schema using the Data API. To update a product catalog via the Data API, you must first...

Any product catalog dataset that you create is available in all the account instances you've set up in your Monetate integration. Because certain features and functions can only use a specific product catalog, you should assign a default product...

For some reason you may need to delete a product catalog dataset from the Monetate platform. Doing so may require you to assign a different default product catalog if the dataset that you want to delete is connected to one or more domains in you...

If Monetate detects an issue while processing a file upload, one of the following error messages appears. Error Type Description Wrong File Type The catalog file is in an unsupported file format. Improper File Encoding The file do...