Ceneje.si feed for Shopify

Ceneje reads one XML file from a URL you host and e-mail to their team; there is no upload interface and no API. Nothing imports until an editor confirms the feed; the address at the foot of the spec, urednik@ceneje.si, is where questions go. After that the rhythm splits in two: new and withdrawn products move once a night between midnight and four in the morning, while price and stock are re-read several times a day, about every two hours.

No item cap, file-size limit or compression rule is stated anywhere, and none is enforced, with merchant feeds over 70 MB in production. The declared encoding must match the file's real one; Feedflock emits and declares UTF-8, hosts the file on a stable URL and regenerates it every hour, so both of Ceneje's rhythms always read current data.

The most consequential line of the spec is easy to miss: most values are imported into Ceneje's database only once, and later changes to them bring additional costs. The re-read list covers price, regularPrice, clubPrice, stock, stockText, link, the delivery elements, condition, warranty, coupon and gift. A name, description, main image, category path, brand or EAN is not on it. A wrong product name is a support ticket, not a regeneration.

So the name deserves the care the spec asks for: brand + product type + model, as in their example “SAMSUNG hladilnik z zamrzovalnikom RB37J5018SA”. No promo phrases like free delivery or gift, no all-caps, second-hand status stated, and for clothing and footwear the size must stay out of the name. Descriptions are HTML without styling, wrapped in CDATA, and the specifications element is what Ceneje turns into the filters buyers narrow results with.

Ceneje pairs your offer to its product card by EAN, productCode and productModel, stated outright in the spec's closing list of common problems. The EAN is exactly 13 digits, valid per GS1, with restricted and coupon prefixes excluded; a 14-digit GTIN or a leading-zero value does not pass, exactly as on Heureka. The template fills EAN from the Shopify barcode and productCode from the SKU.

Two shortcuts exist. CUIN, Ceneje's own product code shown on every product page, auto-links your item to the existing catalog entry within 48 hours, and cenCategoryId (the numeric id from Ceneje's category archive) places it into the right category just as fast. The ID itself is permanent: never changed, never recycled, kept across a platform migration, because a duplicated ID drops every offer that shares it.

Variants are flat: one Item per variant, tied together by groupId, and groupId is reserved for products that differ by the four pre-defined attributes color, size, gender and ageGroup, sent inside the attributes block. For clothing and footwear all four are required; every other attribute goes out as a repeatable attribute block with a name and values.

fileUnder carries your shop's own category path, exactly one per item. Ceneje classifies from it, so the mapping matters. Availability is a three-value enum with dispatch semantics: in stock ships within a day, preorder in 2–10 working days, out of stock has no known date, and unlike Heureka, an out-of-stock item may stay in the feed. Delivery is one price per item, 0 for free, with deliveryTimeMin/Max in working days required whenever the item is in stock or on preorder.