Release Notes

Released on 16 May 2023

💡If you’re a retailer looking for older versions of OpenCart or Shopware, we’ve got you covered. 

We have added a more visible menu to make integration easier for retailers using older versions of OpenCart and Shopware:

To download the plugin for older versions of OpenCart and Shopware:

1. Click on the dropdown labeled “Show plugins for other OpenCart/Shopware versions.”
2. Once it drops down, select your version.
3. Download the plugin DataFeedWatch Connector. 

• Released on 25 Apr 2023

👏 Price Watch is also available now for sub-accounts!

If you're a sub-account user, you can use Price Watch for your shops. However, there are some differences:

• You can only use Price Watch in a "View-Only" mode, which means you can see the dashboard but can't take certain actions.
• The main account owner is the only one who can install Price Watch, select products for comparison updates, or set up Price Watch.

If you want to activate Price Watch on your shop, follow the instructions in this article: Installing Price Watch [Sub-accounts].

Released on 14 Mar 2023

🌟New, more user-friendly Integration Flow for WooCoomerce, ShopWare, and OpenCart

Formerly, our users had to go through a more complex process to connect their shops in WooCommerce, ShopWare, and OpenCart with our DataFeedWatch plugin.

After in-depth research, we’ve designed and implemented a more user-friendly and efficient integration path.

Refer to the Help Articles to dig deeper into the new process: 

👉How To Add WooCommerce

👉How to Add OpenCart

👉How to Add ShopWare

Released on 14 Feb 2023

🎉 New Feed-Based Text Ads Registration Process

Formerly, users who wanted to use Feed-Based Text Ads as a standalone service had to request our experts to create the account. 

We have improved the flow and made it way more automatic. 

Now the new users don’t need to wait until the request is completed but sign up directly on our Feed-Based Text Ads Landing Page. 

🐛Delated products from Shopify are still visible in DataFeedWatch.

Hi, Shopify users! You may have noticed that some of the products you removed from your Shopify store were still visible in your DataFeedWatch product list. 

We discovered that some code mismatch caused us to copy information from your data feed faster than information about your deleted products. Our development team identified the issue and made changes. 

Now the status of your products in DataFeedWatch shows the actual situation in the store.

🐛  The Price Watch’s Product Selector is not working.

Some users have encountered an "Internal Server Error" when using the Product Selector on Price Watch. 

We encountered a technical glitch that impeded the smooth operation of the Product Selector, and we fixed the issue. 

Released on 02 Feb 2023

👋 We've removed the “Connections” from the Navigation Bar.

You could have noticed that the Connections tab disappeared from our side navigation.

The navigation bar is where we aim to keep the essential options. Since the option "Connections" was usually confusing for our users, we decided to remove it.

🎉Now, you can choose which product data you want to download!

Want to download the selected data of your shop or channel products from the product table instead of an extensive data file? Now it’s possible!

Once you want to download your product data, go to the Shop or Channel Products, and click on the preferable format of the file, and we’ll ask you whether you want to download the in-depth database or the file with the selected values.

Released on 17 Jan 2023

🚀 We are migrating Amazon Feeds from DataFeedWatch to Cart Marketplace Management

It’s happening! Today, January 17th, 2023, we are migrating the Amazon data feeds from DataFeedWatch to Cart Marketplace Management.

As we explained in our emails to our Amazon users, it doesn’t mean their Amazon output feeds will disappear from DataFeedWatch. We will keep them as it is today, and they will continue to be refreshed daily.

The only change is that the upload to Amazon will no longer be done by DataFeedWatch, but by our sister company SellerActive.SellerActive is 100% specialized in Amazon and other marketplaces, bringing more stability, experience, and functionalities for you to succeed on Amazon, like re-pricing software to help you win the Buy Box.

If you have the Amazon feed in DataFeedWatch, we asked you to create your FREE Seller Active account by filling out the application form to facilitate the migration process.

• If you have sent the migration application form, one of our colleagues from Seller Active might reach out to you and set up your free Seller Active account.

We will keep your Amazon data feed, but from today, your data feed upload to Amazon will be handled by Seller Active.

• If you haven’t sent the migration application form, we will keep your Amazon feed in DataFeedWatch as it is today, and it will be refreshed every day, but your product feed won’t be uploaded to your Amazon account.

Please get in touch with our support if you want to migrate your Amazon feed to Seller Active or encounter any disruption related to this change.

Here you can learn more about Cart Marketplace Management.

👋 Bye, bye  Google Text Ads, and welcome Feed-Based Text Ads!

As you probably noticed, we have replaced the name of our Google Text Ads tool with Feed-Based Text Ads.

We wanted to avoid the confusion resulting from similar naming of general Google’s service Google Ads and highlight the main potential of the tool, which is the possibility of building your Search Campaigns on your fully optimized data feed.

This change won’t affect any of the functionalities of the Feed-Based Text Ads, nor your Search Campaign settings.

If you want to learn more about Feed-Based Text Ads, visit our blog.

Released on 15 Nov 2022

🎉 Cart Storefront available in DataFeedWatch

Hello👋 Good news, our integrations base is growing! We are happy to announce that all eCommerce merchants selling on Cart Storefront can start using our data feed optimization solution.

It's very easy! Just follow this instruction to add your Cart Storefront shop to DataFeedWatch, and start doing some magic with your data feeds.

Released on 3 Nov 2022

🎉 New Bol.com V6 version available in DataFeedWatch

The new bol.com v6 version is already available in DataFeedWatch! Bol.com introduced some novelties, like new shipping labels or the possibility of tracking shipping events. More than that, they improved many of the existing features on v5. Check out how to migrate from v5 to v6, and look through the changes 👉 click!

Released on 18 Oct 2022

❌ Getting a 401 error in Magento 2?

Hey! Around these days, you might be getting a 401 error when trying to open DataFeedWatch App in Magento Dashboard.

It might happen because you haven’t allowed OAuth Access Tokens. If this issue comes out in the future, please follow the instruction:

1. Navigate to your Magento Dashboard.
2. Go to Configuration.
3. Navigate to Services.
4. Click on OAuth.
5. Direct to Consumer Settings.
6. Select Yes to Allow OAuth Access Tokens to be used as standalone Bearer tokens.
7. Save Config.

You can also read more about this issue here 👉 click!

Released on 4 Oct 2022

👋 We've removed the Image Selector

We removed the Image Selector from our DataFeedWatch features. We observed that our users are not very interested in choosing our Image Selector, and usage of this feature recently was causing some difficulties.

This transfer process didn’t require any of your activity- we took care of everything. We transferred all the settings you had created using the Default Image Selecto to the look-up table and added to the corresponding products as an optional field dfw_images in the internal fields.

From now on, if you want to add new images, follow this short instruction to implement new images directly in your channel’s mapping.

🎉 Your estimated cost for Price Watch is now visible on the dashboard!

Hey Price Watch Users! As a user of the upgraded Price Watch, you can see how much you would have spent on Price Watch at the end current billing period. This cost is an estimation based on your usage of Price Watch during the ongoing Billing Period.

To see the estimated cost, go to your Price Watch dashboard, head to Pricing, and click on it. It will be visible on the main page.

🎉 OpenImmo channel! Now available in DataFeedWatch!!

Good news for all those who want to advertise their real estate objects! From now we have available the OpenImmo channel. OpenImnno lets you create data feeds of the objects like houses, apartments, and business offices to sell or lease.

That’s good news, especially for German-speaking users or those who want to expand their market to Germany since this channel is mainly used there. Other countries where users use this channel are Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Luxemburg. More about OpenImmo 👉 click!

Released on 20 Apr 2022

Features

🎉 Product Drop Protection Options

In Updates Schedule, you can now turn on an option to monitor the number of products. You will either get a notification when your products number drops below the specified level. Additionally, you can set up a protection that will let you advertise the higher product quantity in case it drops significantly due to any unexpected issue.

Released on 22 Mar 2022

Bugs

🐛 Categorize Products: Full Category Not Displayed

We've been reported an issue with autogenerated categories. The categories we generate were not correctly displayed, so seeing only the beginning, it was hard for our users to actually choose the right category there. It is now all clear and visible.

🐛 BigCommerce Installation: Not Shop Owner Flow Fix

Installation of your BigCommerce shop, if you did not have access to the shop yourself, could end with a loop not letting you finish the process. This was an annoying bug, we've managed to identify and fix in this release.

Released on 08 Mar 2022

Bugs

🐛 Analytics on Menu for Users without Access to Analytics

In DataFeedWatch, you can decide if your account users should have access to Analytics service. If you do not allow them, they do not have access to Analytics service, and they shouldn't see this option on the main menu.

We've decided to remove this item for them, so they are not confused with the link they are not able to access anyway.

Released on 22 Feb 2022

Features

🎉 Shop List Improvements: You Can Now Mark and Copy Shop's Name! And More.

We've noticed some things in the new shop list still needed a tweak. In this release, we've made marking and copying your shop's name possible again. We also did brainstorming on responsiveness, and so the longer shop names are now getting wrapped, and the Services column can disappear if you're using a smaller screen.

🎉 Shop Transfer Request Form Improvements

Shop Transfer option is available in Shop Settings of the relevant shop. Until now, this was true for any user accessing Shop Settings. Now, only the Account Owner, or another user with admin permissions, will see this option there. This way, we make sure only the authorized persons can transfer a shop to another DataFeedWatch account. You can feel more secure!

Released on 08 Feb 2022

Features

🎉 Shop List and Shop Statuses Redesign

Our Shop List hasn't been changed for a while now, and the time came for us to take care of this one! 🙌

This was intended as a mainly technological feature, allowing us to make changes and add new features in the future almost effortlessly. But to be honest, it was built from scratch, so many things had to change.

What's actually new in this view?

• refreshed, more lightweight look
• shop statuses, and the logic behind them
• shop options, narrowed down to what you'd most often use
• quick search by ID and name

  

Released on 25 Jan 2022

Bugs

🐛 Magento 2 Installation: Incorrect Link to Help Center Article

When installing a Magento 2 shop, in step 2.3 you could notice a strange link instead of one leading to our Help Center. It should now work fine, and the link should take you to Adding Magento 2.

Released on 11 Jan 2022

Features

🎉 Updated Email Sent to Users Suspending Their Shop

Previously, you could notice that the change to suspended plan emails were virtually same as when switching to other plans. We've managed to adjust this one now more to your real-life situations, including also the pandemic context when suspending your subscription due to COVID-19. And again, take care if this is you, and hopefully see you all around soon ! 🙌

Bugs

🐛 Shopify: Prices and Curriencies Timeout

We've identified a number of Shopify shops with update errors, that is resulting in timeout when trying to update prices and currencies. We've identified the reason behind it, and fixed this issue by updating prices with the relevant currency instead of any possible combination. So now it should all be up and running for your Shopify stores!

Released on 14 Dec 2021

Features

🎉 Shop Transfer Request Form Moved to Shop Settings

Anyone, wanting us to move their shop to another DataFeedWatch account, like your Agency's account or that of another user's, had to fill-in a special form received in a conversation with our Support.

Now, you can request the same thing, going directly to the App, and then navigating to your shop's settings. This way your form is way nicer and shorter to fill in. Another advantage is that this way we've made the process more secure.

Released on 30 Nov 2021

Features

🎉 Redesigned Help Center

Having in mind a better user experience, we've decided to refresh the visual aspect of our Help Center. We've added icons to sub-categories, improved typography and colors of text, links, labels, numbering. 💙💚🖤

Moreover, we've improved the search functionality. 🔍 The results are now divided into Frequently searched and Recent articles. Be sure to check out how this works for you.

Released on 16 Nov 2021

Features

🎉 New Main Mapping Tooltips

This time, we're releasing new mapping tooltips for the five main mapping options. The tooltips now include a short description of the functionality, and Learn more links to our more in-depth help center articles.

Released on 03 Nov 2021

Features

🎉 EUR Currency Now Applicable for European Customers

In a week from now, any new European client will get the following Euro currency prices:

Shop €49               Merchant €69               Agency €199

This will happen provided they are in one of the following regions: EU member states, Norway, UK, Switzerland, Belarus, Ukraine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia, or Moldova.

At the same time, we won't apply Euro for you if you're a Shopify user.

We're now also ready to apply similar mechanisms for the current customers soon. Stay tuned! 🇪🇺

Released on 19 Oct 2021

Features

🎉 Full Category Path in Categories Selection

With the recent release of new dropdowns improving your mapping experience, we've come across problem with changed Categories selection dropdown. It became difficult, right? Now, you can search the categories easily and immediatly see which one you need. 👌

🎉 Adjusted Combine Dropdown

Improved Combine Dropdown with search box, also with some remaining issues spotted and fixed.

Bugs

🐛 Woocommerce & Opencart: Validation Messages Fixed

When your WooCommerce or OpenCart was added second time with the same address, validation message wasn't correct and mentioned incorrect credentials. We've now added a new text covering such case, and specifically telling you that you're adding the same shop second time.

Released on 05 Oct 2021

There's not much impressive things to boast with at this time. We've mainly focused on improving app stability and security for you. 🔐 FTP improvements, timeout fixes, UI and icon bugs, etc. 😴

Stay happy. Stay healthy! 🙌

Released on 21 Sep 2021

Features

🎉 Bol.com Offers and Orders Feeds Updated to API V5

To stay up to date and keeps your feeds running for Bol.com, we've upgraded our connection to the most recent API version 5, as required by this marketplace. We've previously used their API version 3.

🎉 Cost Data Removed

As we are migrating to new Analytics, we've temporarily decided to discontinue Cost Data. This module allowed you to import additional paid campaign performance data to DataFeedWatch Analytics.

🎉 Older Analytics Dashboard Removed

We've migrated all of you to new Analytics, and now removed the older Dashboard. Analytics is now only available in the newer, more refreshed views. It is developed in the technology allowing us to develop it further and add extra features.

Bugs

🐛 A Few Analytics Bugs Fixed

We've recently fixed bugs improving the new Analytics Dashboard. As we're now also disabling the older dashboard, we've made a significant effort to make Analytics more pleasant to use and actually functional.

🐛 Search in Combine Rule Fixed

If you were adding a new Combine rule to your mapping, you could notice that search did not work as expected, only filtering results by first letter or not at all. It is now working and filtering the result so finding and combining fields should be smooth and sound.

Released on 07 Sep 2021

Bugs

🐛 Combine Search and All Fields Tab Set as Default

After our recent update of Fields dropdown, there were a few issues in Combine option. We've fixed the search option there, and made All the default option also there. By the way, it now works otherwise when adding fields to Combine. They will appear there in the order you add them – and then you can drag and drop them.

Released on 24 Aug 2021

Features

🎉 Preview of Channel Mapping Showing What Internal Fields Include

When you create rules to decide what will appear in your channel, you often use Internal Fields (for a variety of reasons). But when you already have a rule, and you're checking it with the Preview 👁️ option, you could only see the names of Internal Fields used. Now, you get a same-window preview of what's in there. So you don't need to navigate back to your shop's Internal Fields to check it. You can unfold any Internal Field there, one by one.

🎉 Internal Fields in Advanced Filters in Preview 👁️

Until now, you couldn't use Internal Fields to filter out products in the preview. Now, you can click Advanced Filters, and select any Input Field or Internal Field to find the product you were looking for.

🎉 New and Improved Mapping and Search Dropdowns

The main problem to solve here was that users had hard time to find input fields in the mapping selector since it was by default set to Internal Fields, and it was necessary to switch the tab to Input Fields to find it. We've changed the main dropdown, so that all fields (Input Fields, Internal Fields, but also Date, Text Fields, etc.) are available and searchable instantly, but still grouped separately for clarity.

🎉 More Areas where Exclude Associated Variants is Used

We've come up with Exclude Associated Variants a long time ago, and as a feature it proved useful for many customers. Recently, we've noticed there are more and more newer functionalities, where Exclude Associated Variants could and should be applied—yet it wasn't. So now, we've extended it to exclude such products from places such as Feed Review or Marketplaces.

Channels

🌱 New Channel Added: www.pix.wine

Developed in the pandemic, Pix is the world’s first wine discovery platform. Intuitive wine search engine comes with reviews and articles from wine experts.

🌱 Seznam.cz Template Update

We've updated the Seznam Template to meet the latest channel requirements. Go ahead and advertise your products on Seznam!

Bugs

🐛 Merging: Add Products Option Issue Fixed

When shop had Add Products option chosen for merging, and user added new additional feed, shop after download had the Merge status, requiring user to take an action. Add Products should be the remembered option now, which is how it should work.

🐛 Bol.com Marketplace Not Updated: Shipping and Availability Issue

There was a problem, reported by our Bol.com clients, with uploading and updating some products in Bol.com. It is now fixed, and all the products are correctly updated as they should.

Released on 10 Aug 2021

Features

🎉 Sale Price from Internal Fields Used in Channels

For most our product sources, we are creating Sale Price rules in Internal Fields for you. We just weren't using this field in your channels. Now, every time you add channels with the Sale Price field (e.g. Google, Facebook, Bing, etc.), we'll add a rule to use your Sale Price from Internal Fields. It's especially useful for sources like Shopify, where creating it may become a nightmare sometimes.

🎉 Date Unification to DD MMM YYYY Format—Completed

This time, we've completed implementing new dates format throughout the app, that is DD MMM YYYY (e.g. 27 Jul 2021). We did it to make sure all our global clients can understand the dates. Of course, you can still encounter other dates format in other communication received from our Sales, Support, and Marketing teams.

🎉 Price Watch Video

We've recorded a video for you, to have a chance to sneak peek how to setup and use Price Watch. It guides you through and showcases how useful it can be for selling more! Go to our App, and check Price Watch section for details.

Released on 27 Jul 2021

Features

🎉 Date Unification to DD MMM YYYY Format—Emails

This time, we've introduced the new dates format to all emails sent from the app. The format we're aiming to apply throughout the app is DD MMM YYYY. An example of such date is 27 Jul 2021. We did it to make sure you, that is all our global clients, understand the date correctly. We're still working on this unification, so the date format may still differ in some parts of the app. Of course, you can also encounter other dates format in other email communication received from our Sales and Marketing teams.

🎉 3dcart Becomes Shift4Shop

3dCart recently rebranded to Shift4Shop. We've therefore changed the logo and name also throughout our app. While adding a shop or editing it, you will now see the updated details.

🎉 Shopify API Upgrade

Shopify has updated its API, so we had to implement the relevant changes also on our side. This one's rather technical, and shouldn't change anything if you're already using Shopify in DataFeedWatch.

Bugs

🐛 FTP Upload Issues

We've recently spotted a problem with FTP upload for certain customer. The previously working FTP credentials suddenly didn't allow us to connect. We had to change connections settings to get it working again.

🐛 Processing Failed in Feed Review

This error appeared in Feed Review, even for correctly processed channels. There was some technical issue behind it that our tech team successfully solved.

🐛 Analytics: Cost Data Fetching Exception Interrupted Data Aggregation

Errors in getting Cost Data seemed to prevent gathering all Analytics data. When any Cost Data exception occurs, the analytics data will now still be aggregated without it. Also, an email about Cost Data exception will be sent.

🐛 Impossible to Access Incorrectly Created Channel (Error 500)

There was an issue preventing you from accessing a broken channel. Now, this error shouldn't appear, at least when you only access it. If it's still broken, try reaching out to us.

Released on 13 Jul 2021

Features

🎉 Unified Information Pills

We used to have multiple styles of showing pills across the app. What are pills? It's the rounded, pill-shaped styling around words.

Now how it looks is unified. Here's a list of some pills you can come across: fields in combine rule, category name, Updates Schedule items like times of updates or status, fields in Add Optional Field modal, Feed Review pie chart items.

Bugs

🐛 Breaking View of Internal Fields When Scrolling

Some users encountered a problem with Internal Field view, where one of the fields stuck to the top of the page.

🐛 Missing Active Item Coloring in Source Dropdown

After adding a search function to the Source dropdown on Shop Products page, the blue highlight color for an active element has disappeared. We've now added it, so it looks as intended.

🐛 Categories Dropdown Tooltips Displayed Incorrectly

Text in categories dropdown tooltips had some symbols escaped and displayed incorrectly.