Matching and Coverage Analysis of Your Catalog

All channel partners want good product information for as many of their products as possible. Therefore, knowing your catalog coverage is critical before implementing Icecat and choosing between Open and Full Icecat. In general, Icecat strives to cover at least 90% of the stock portfolios of mainstream distributors. Icecat, together with its brand, distribution, and retail partners, monitors this coverage daily as input for editors.

Navigation

1. Register on Icecat as Channel Partner or Brand Representative
2. Sign in to icecat.biz
3. Follow Burger Menu > My Feed Coverage.

Upload your product feed

First, you need to have to put the product identifiers into a single file. We accept Excel, CSV, and XML formats

Excel and CSV feed structure

Product Code	Brand	GTIN	MyInternalID
111-111	Cisco	000000000000	CiscoServer1
111-112	MSI	000000000001	MSILaptop17

XML feed structure

<Products>
<Product>
    <ProductCode>111-111</ProductCode>
    <Brand>Cisco</Brand>
    <GTIN>000000000000</GTIN>
    <MyInternalID>CiscoServer1</MyInternalID>
</Product>
<Product>
    <ProductCode>111-112</ProductCode>
    <Brand>MSI</Brand>
    <GTIN>000000000001</GTIN>
    <MyInternalID>MSILaptop17</MyInternalID>
</Product>
</Products>

We encourage you to use a feed hosted on a URL.

	Feed from PC	Feed hosted on HTTPs/FTP
Limitation on upload	10 MB	No limits
Available for automation	No	Yes
Use-case	One-time statistics, small reports	Full Integration, alternative to XML/JSON API

Important notes about uploading your pricelist

1. If you use CSV or XML, ensure all the product identifiers (Brand, GTIN, and Product Code) are correctly formatted. All the escape characters – \\ (backslash), “ (quote), or , (comma) are to be correctly encoded. If unsure, convert to Excel (.xslx).
2. If you struggle, contact your account manager and attach your feed.

Troubleshooting

Error Message	What happenned?	What to do?
Request failed with status code 403	The uploaded file cannot be downloaded by Icecat because owner restricts the downloads from unrecognized IP addresses or from software.	Check if your product feed could be downloaded with software.

Matching the Product Identifiers

As identifiers, we accept the Manufacturer Product Code + Brand name or GTIN.

Your product ID column is for your internal product identifiers. They will be included in the Personal Catalog.

Statistics

Once your pricelist is matched, you will see the following interface:

This analysis is free and gives you an idea of the product information Icecat supplies. It also enables you to make an analysis of the coverage Icecat can provide for you.

💡Huge number of Skipped products often indicates the errors in parsing or escape characters.

Extensive analysis

In case you want more information or tailored analysis, please contact us: Contact Page.