Beslist.nl feed for Shopify

Beslist pulls your file on its own schedule: a full import at least four times a day, which adds new items and removes the ones no longer in the feed, plus incremental reads in between that pick up only the price and delivery-time rows you changed, live within about an hour. The cap is 500 MB per file, with no stated limit on the number of items.

The first import is gated by a person, not a parser: a Beslist employee checks the feed and contacts you if something needs adjusting. After that, stability is the rule: change the feed URL only in consultation, or the import simply stops. Feedflock hosts the file on a stable URL and regenerates it every hour, so every one of those four daily reads is current.

Beslist's mandatory list is short and blunt: title, price, product URL, image URL, a unique code, shipping cost and delivery time, plus GTIN/EAN, with an explicit exemption for products that were never assigned one (though Beslist warns their performance will suffer). The price format is quoted to the character: two decimals behind a comma, no thousands separator, no € or EUR. Shipping is one number, incl. VAT (text like “gratis” is not allowed), and it feeds the total-price sorting.

Two rules in this list cost products. The main image must be at least 800 × 800 px, free of watermarks, logos and promotional text, and if a product has no photo, the field stays empty rather than carrying a placeholder, because a “No Image” URL is on Beslist's own error list. And Conditie becomes mandatory the moment an offer is not new.

For clothing and shoes, Beslist adds three mandatory fields: maat, geslacht and variantcode. Every size is its own row with its own unieke code; the sizes of one colour are tied together by a shared Variantcode, and every colour of one product shares a Modelcode. Beslist's own worked example is a shoe: sizes 41–43 in grey share variantcode 4628-grijs, the red ones 4628-rood, and all of them modelcode 4628.

Details matter here: an international size carries its country code (“41 EU”), and only products whose size is in the feed show up when a visitor filters by size. Sold-out sizes stay in the feed with levertijd “Niet op voorraad” or weergave 0, so the variant structure never breaks.

The single most unusual fact about this channel: Beslist does not prescribe element names. Its pages list the columns by meaning and a person wires your feed up, so a differently named field is a mapping conversation, not the silent drop it would be on Heureka or Zboží. Their own guides even offer “use your existing Google Shopping feed” as a route.

The same holds for categories: you send your shop's own full category path (“Vermeld altijd de volledige categorisatie”) and Beslist places the products automatically. Google Shopping category names, spelled out, are also accepted. Feedflock sends your product type by default, and a catch-all like “Sale” is exactly what their examples warn against.