For those of you looking to add a comparison shopping element to your website but who aren’t necessarily super-technically minded or who perhaps just don’t have the time to manage ftp data feeds, we’re excited to tell you that our Catalogue API is coming soon!
What is the Catalogue API?
For anyone who is not familiar with the Catalogue API, this product provides advanced publishers with intuitive access to BizRate’s inventory of catalogued products and merchant offers through a query-based web service accepting various parameters, allowing publishers to filter based on their website’s shopping content needs. Based on these publisher-supplied parameters, customised BizRate shopping content is returned within an XML response.
The API will enable you to dynamically retrieve product results from the BizRate catalogue which means no manual updating. Once installed, you can sit back and relax as the data is called automatically. Commercial access to the API offers website publishers the deepest level of integration to ensure the most contextually relevant display of monetized shopping content.
Whereas the current Shopzilla UK FTP Data Feeds require you to update your site in sync with Shopzilla’s daily updates - our merchants often add new and remove old product offers and even change prices – the API takes away the need to update your product offers everytime they’re updated at the Shopzilla end.
Our API will be available early next year so watch this space for further updates!
*Please let us know if you are interested in this product and we will add you to our priority mailing list – you’ll be the first to know as soon as we release it. If you are not already an affiliate of Shopzilla, please apply for an account.
Sit back and relax with the Shopzilla UK Publisher Catalogue API
