CRE Loaded PriceRunner.com Data Feed is CRE Loaded contribution which radically eases your products' export into PriceRunner.com - one of the best Pay-Per-Click services.
PriceRunner.com was designed to provide consumers with easy online access to specifications and prices for a wide variety of products. After only a few minutes of browsing this site, the customer is already in a good position to make an informed decision about a purchase. Whatever it is one is looking for, he can quickly work out which model best meets his needs, where it is available, and at the lowest possible price. Whether he wishes to purchase on or offline, PriceRunner.com will point to the best deal.
The website PriceRunner is a price comparison service launched in Sweden in 1999, and since bought by ValueClick. It allows users to compare prices on a range of products. PriceRunner uses a combination of screen scraping retailers' websites and files supplied by the retailers themselves. These prices are matched against a backend database. This is done by using both a fuzzy logic automatching system, and manually by admin staff. PriceRunner.com was designed to provide consumers with easy online access to specifications and prices for a wide variety of products.
PriceRunner is similar to other price comparison services in that it is financed by advertisers, who pay on a pay per click model. It also uses web banners provided by sister company, vcmedia.
Main features:
easy to use and configure
multilanguage support
multicurrency support
ability to export only selected categories
ability to include/exclude products marked "out of stock"
ability to include/exclude products with zero quantity
capability to include/exclude products with zero price
capability to strip HTML from Product Names
capability to strip HTML from Product Descriptions
capability to set default shipping cost
ability to limit number of products exported
ability to set currency that is used during export
ability to customize name of the export file
inline text recommendations for fast initial configuration
ability to automatically upload feed via FTP
ability to send feed via email
third party sales channel tracking (Google Analytics, WebTrends, OneStat, 123LogAnalyzer, Netmining etc)
optional GZIP compression of feed contents
additional Live Product Feed URL options
ability to validate feeds (XML-based feeds only)
ability to store feed on your server
exported products filtering by name, quantity, model, price etc
ability to append additional info like price, manufacturer to exported product name
multiple export configurations
preconfigured Google Analytics support
supports most of standard-compliant SEO-friendly URL modules/addons
Click Tracking / ROI Tracking
online documentation and Quick Start instructions and more
Not only has my life and work been made easier with the wonderful software from M1, but also from the fast, clear assistance I have received when asking questions on how to do technical things.
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Natalia was able to answer all my questions and provided simple to implement solutions to all my problems. She even helped me fix an issue that was completely unrelated to the product I purchased from Magnetic One. Impressive indeed. I know where I'll be coming for all my future shopping cart needs! Thanks!
I just wanted to say thanks for always over-delivering on awesome products. Data feeds export is a very effective tool and was a breeze to install.
In just a few minutes I had setup my product export feeds and the fact that it was so affordable made it even sweeter.
To your success,
CRE Loaded PriceRunner.com Data Feed Version History
Nov 22, 2009
CRE Loaded PriceRunner.com Data Feed Version: 12.3.2 - Fixed problem with X-Cart 4.3 compatibility: language list was empty
- Added Made in field to Google Base exportfeeds
- Added weight unit to Google Base exportfeeds
- Added export of regular price as sale price for non-sales products in Getprice export feed
- Removed Jellyfish export feedto Bing
Oct 08, 2009
CRE Loaded PriceRunner.com Data Feed Version: 12.1.9 - Added memory limit in export script
- Added timeout warning in admin section for large Stores
- Improved support for special price in GetpriceCSVfile
- Added validation of export fields in Custom Data Feeds
- Set direct URL of product images in eDirectoryand Shopzilla Export
Aug 31, 2009
CRE Loaded PriceRunner.com Data Feed Version: 11.9.5 - Improved support for server content encodings
- Added output cleaning in export tracker
- Added taxonomy in Google Base exportfeeds - used in Product Type field
- Added processing of SKU value before export in Google Base feed
- Added export of product attributes in Advanced XML export feed
- Added product variations export in Advanced XML export feed
- Improved new version check
Mar 30, 2009
CRE Loaded PriceRunner.com Data Feed Version: 10.7.6 - Minor improvements in Zen Cart export feeds;
- Minor improvements in Custom Data Feed;
- Added support of DHTML menu CRE Loaded6.3;
- Added product variations export in Yahoo exportfeeds;
- Added export of Stock Description value in Shopping.com export feed;
-Minor improvements with decimal places in some taxed product prices;
- Added memory limit checking.
Feb 09, 2009
CRE Loaded PriceRunner.com Data Feed Version: 10.6.7 - Added support of variations export in Custom Data Feed
- Improved HTML special characters converted to entities in product links in Custom Data Feed
CRE Loaded PriceRunner.com Data Feed Version: 9.8.9 - Added ability to export all product database fields in Advanced XML Export
- Improved notifications when product database fields are empty in Custom and Advanced XML Export
- Improved Sales Channel Analysisof additional export packages: Amazonand Affiliateexport
- Added Custom Data Feed
- Improved generation of product database fields in Custom and Advanced XML Export
- Added ability to export all product database fields in Advanced XML Export
- Improved converting of non-acceptable characters in Google BaseRSS feed
- Removed `Beta` from feed titles
- Added MyShopping export feed
- Weight values export improved
- Added support of X-Cart Extra Fields
- Improved export of product descriptions in XMLformat to Google Base
- Improved Admin Box: added support of shopping carts on servers with disabled register_globals
- Removed ShareASaletaxonomy from All-in-One package
Nov 02, 2008
CRE Loaded PriceRunner.com Data Feed Version: 9.4.2 - Removed links on 2Checkout and ShareASale export feedsfrom admin box for X-Cart
- Improved Export Categories dropdown: added horizontal scrolling
- Added restriction on category list in module admin pages - if more than 10000 categories in store, only top level categories will be displayed
Oct 27, 2008
CRE Loaded PriceRunner.com Data Feed Version: 9.2.0 - Improved compatibility with Power SEO module:declaration of UTF-8 functions
- Added Tax field to Google Base export feed
- Optimized Google Base feed - removed generation of category tree
- Moved UTF-8 library to libs folder
Oct 22, 2008
CRE Loaded PriceRunner.com Data Feed Version: 9.0.9 - Added Shopzilla.co.ukexport format to Shopzilla feed
- Enlarged Categories dropdowns
- Improved column names
- Added support of several taxonomies by feed
- Improved export script for Cron execution
- Improved supporting of store languages
- Removed ShareASaleand 2CO Export feedsfrom All-in-One packages
- Product URL Brokerbin feedimproved
