Kieskeurig.nl feed for Shopify

Kieskeurig works differently from the self-serve comparison sites: there is no public validator, and no portal page that lists your feed's errors. You mail the feed URL to datamanagement@kieskeurig.nl, a person validates it and shares improvement points, and every feed is checked by hand before the first import. If you later change the structure (a column order in a CSV, a tag name in XML), they ask to be told first.

The transport fits the hosted model exactly: a fixed URL, fetched about ten times a day, over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP or SFTP. Feedflock hosts the file on a stable URL and regenerates it every hour, so each of those fetches reads data at most an hour old, and the URL never moves.

Kieskeurig attaches your price to its product page by the ean-code, helped by merk and type. Thirteen digits is the only length they state (a Shopify barcode holding a GTIN-14 sits outside it), and a genuinely unknown EAN may stay empty. Their partner FAQ names a missing ean-code as the usual reason a product from the feed never appears on the site.

The type element must be the bare model designation, with the brand in its own merk field: their example is merk Canon, type "Ixus 70". The default mapping sends the Shopify product title, which on many shops still starts with the vendor, so strip it where you can. The productgroep is your own text path, levels joined by " > ", one kind of product per value. No phone cases under "smartphone". Kieskeurig maps it onto its own groups; the tree itself is not published.

The prijs element carries the consumer price including BTW and the levies that come with certain products: the private-copying levy and the disposal fee belong inside the price, shipping does not. No currency sign, a dot decimal, and the same decimal separator as verzendkosten.

verzendkosten is the total minimum cost of getting the product to the customer's door, and it is mandatory. An omitted verzendkosten is not read as "we don't ship"; it is a missing mandatory field, and the product silently stays off the site. It is also the ranking key: the lowest price plus shipping tops the price page, with delivery time and reviews as the tiebreak. Pickup costs go in afhaalkosten, required whenever collection costs extra, including parcel-shop networks.

Kieskeurig's pricefeed has no availability enum. levertijd is free text (the minimum time to the customer's door or pickup point) that Kieskeurig maps onto eight notations of its own: 24 uur, 1-2 dagen, 1-3 dagen, 3-4 dagen, t/m 5 dagen, 5+ dagen, pre-order and Onbekend. Sending one of those verbatim skips the guesswork; the template's defaults do exactly that, and only "24 uur" demands a literal sentence. A sold-out variant stays in the feed with <voorraad>0</voorraad>. Kieskeurig removes nothing for being unavailable.

Two traps are worth knowing. The specification itself is offline: the spec pages 404 today, so the template is pinned to archived copies of Kieskeurig's own pages and sample feeds. And emptying the feed does not pause your listing: an automatic backup keeps showing the last fetched data. To pause, mail datamanagement@kieskeurig.nl.