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  • Exclude “Out Of Stock” Products From WooCommerce Product Feed
  • Connect Facebook Pixel With WooCommerce For Dynamic Ads
  • Product Feed Optimization with Yoast SEO Product Title, Meta Description and Primary Category
  • Getting Started With WooCommerce Product Feed Manager
  • How To Install And Activate WPFM
  • How To Generate Product Feed For The First Time
  • Basic Plugin Overview – WooCommerce Product Feed Manager
  • How To Use Category Mapping For Product Feed
  • How To Enable Your Desired Merchant Or Marketplace For Feed Generation
  • Add Extensive Custom Fields Of Unique Identifiers For WooCommerce Products
  • Add Custom Fields For Important Product Attributes
  • How To Add Extensive Custom Fields To WooCommerce Products
  • Fix WooCommerce (JSON-LD) Structured Data For Approval In Google Shopping
  • How To Exclude Tax From Structured Data Prices
  • How To Use Custom Filter When Generating Product Feed
  • Troubleshooting Common Issues – WooCommerce Product Feed Manager
  • How To Use Category Filter When Generating Product Feed
  • How To Use Tag Filter When Generating Product Feed
  • How To Use Product Filter Options When Generating Feed
  • How To Schedule Auto-update of Feed On Set Intervals
  • How To Include Variable Products To The Feed
  • How To Include Private Products In Product Feed

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How To Generate Product Feed For The First Time

Table of Contents
  • Learn To Generate Product Feed
  • Collecting Feed Link Or Editing A Published Feed

If you are new with WooCommerce Product Feed Manager (WPFM), then the first thing to do is to learn to generate product feed before learning about all the other features of the plugin.

Here, you will learn how to generate product feed to understand how it works, and I will show you how you can get the feed link or download the feed.

Later, on upcoming documentations, you will get instructions on using all the other exclusive features to make the feed proper and acceptable on your desired marketplaces.

So let’s take the first step.

Learn To Generate Product Feed #

Follow the steps below to create your first product feed.

1. Go to Dashboard > Product feed > Add New Feed

Add new feed

As you can see, it will take you to the page where you can start configuring a product feed.

While generating this feed, I will give you brief explanations of the use of each features here.

2. On top, you will get to add a title to the feed.

3. Here, you will see that the feed settings are broken down into two sections.

  • Products
  • Feed Configuration
Feed sections

First, let us configure the features in the Products section, and then we can move on to the Feed Configuration section.

4. Choose the Products you want to include in the feed.

generate product feed - Choose all products

You may choose to include All Published Products in your store, or you may use one of the three filter options, Custom Filter, Category Filter, and Tag Filter, to include the products you require (or exclude the ones you do not want to include).

For the first feed, let us choose All Published Products.

5. Then you will see the option called Refresh Interval.

How To Generate Product Feed For The First Time 1

This option is used to schedule an auto-update of the feed after certain intervals. Choose an option to set an auto-update or leave it as “No interval” if you do not want to set an auto-update of the feed.

6. Next, use the following options as needed.

How To Generate Product Feed For The First Time 2
  • Include Variable Parent Product
    -If you want to include the parent feed for variable products, then you can enable the option.
    -Few merchants such as Google Shopping or Facebook doesn’t require you to submit parent products, however, there are many other merchants such as eBay MIP, that requires you to submit product products in the feed.
    -For this feed, let’s not use this option and keep its value as “No“.
  • Include Product Variations –
    -If you want to only include simple products to the feed and no variable products, then keep its value as “No“.
    -If you want to submit both simple products and variable products to Google Shopping, then choose its value as “Yes“.
    -Let’s use this feature, and mark it as “Yes“, for this feed.
  • Include variation product name
    -Few merchants such as Google Shopping, suggest you to add the variation term to the Product name in case you are uploading variable products, however, it is completely optional.
    -So if you want to include the variant terms to the variable product names, then you can set its value as “Yes“.
    -Let’s use this feature, and mark it as “Yes“, for this feed.
  • Include Parent Product (Grouped Product)
    -If you have Grouped Products, then it’s best to submit the parent product of the Grouped product you created.
    -So you should mark this option as “Yes“.
  • Exclude invisible/hidden products
    -You might have certain products on your store that are marked as hidden or invisible on WooCommerce.
    -If you want to generate feed for Simple products only, then you can mark this option as “Yes” to exclude invisible products from the feed.
    -However, product variants are by default marked as Invisible on WooCommerce. So if you include variable products to the feed, then you should mark this as “No“.
    -Since in this feed we are including product variants, so we will not use this feature and keep it as “No“.

7. You can then find an option to add Analytics parameters.

generate product feed - Analytics

Use this option if you wish to add analytics parameters to product links on your product feed so that you can keep track of the products’ performance on Google Shopping.

For now, lets not use this feature as this is your first feed.

8. Now, scroll down to the Feed Configuration section.

9. Here, first select a merchant.

Add new feed merchant type

Let’s choose Google Shopping for this feed.

**Please note that Google Shopping only accepts XML feed submission, so you will not get an option to choose the file format. However, for other merchants, you will get to choose a File Format right below the Merchant Type option.

10. Once you select the merchant, all the mandatory fields required for submitting product feed to the selected merchant will be listed below.

Google product feed merchant

In most cases, this template is already configured and values are assigned properly, so you won’t have to do much work with this.

However, depending on the merchant you are generating feed for, there may be some attributes for which you need to assign values manually.

For example, when you select Google, you will see there are two Attributes that don’t have the values assigned.

Google product feed attributes not assigned

Since we are creating a feed to learn how it works, you do not have to worry about assigning the attributes now.

In the upcoming documentations, I will explain how you can assign attribute values properly when generating feed.

11. Now, scroll up and Publish the feed.

Publish product feed

You will see a progress bar.

12. Once complete, the page will reload, and you will find the Feed link or download button just below the Update button.

How To Generate Product Feed For The First Time 3

**In case you don’t see the feed link section, go to the Screen Options and enable the visibility of the Feed URL section.

That’s it. You have generated your first feed. You can use the link or download the file to upload the products to your desired marketplace.

Collecting Feed Link Or Editing A Published Feed #

If you have created a feed, they will be listed under Dashboard > Product Feed > All Product Feed.

All Product feed here

Here, you will be able to collect the feed link, download the feed, or edit the feed.

Now that you are familiar with how the feed generation process works, now let’s take a quick overview of the plugin, and then we can move on to learn about all the useful features, and creating complete product feed that can be uploaded successfully on your desired marketplaces.

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Updated on October 6, 2020
How To Install And Activate WPFM Basic Plugin Overview – WooCommerce Product Feed Manager
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