Core Technology

VersaFeed's core strength is extracting product information directly from ecommerce websites. We crawl, or spider, ecommerce websites and create rich, detailed data feeds that can be used directly by search engines and comparison shopping engines.

How It Works

The Extraction

VersaFeed maintains crawlers for the largest shopping cart providers including Volusion, NetSuite, XCart, Magento, osCommerce, Yahoo! Stores, and others. We can extract inventory data from these ecommerce solutions with little or no custom code. The crawlers traverse ecommerce websites and create structured product inventory lists (data feeds).

The Verification

Custom AI software verifies new crawls against previous crawls. Any large fluctuations in product information trigger a pause and a re-crawl. This can occur, for example, if a website temporarily goes offline.

Benefits

No special access needed

Retailers generally do not need to grant any special permissions in order to extract product information.

Higher feed quality

When retailers are tasked with creating their own product feed, they often will only include the most basic information. VersaFeed crawls extract product details such as brand, UPC, dimensions, weight, color, country of origin, etc.

Instant gratification

Retailers can take a long time if you ask them for a product data feed. VersaFeed cuts through the red tape and gets immediate access to the product data.

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