Idealno.ba feed for Shopify

Idealno.ba 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 shared by all four storefronts of the group. The page states one synchronization a day, around half past midnight, and invites shops whose prices and availability change often to get in touch. A faster cadence is a conversation, not a setting.

No item cap, file-size limit or compression rule is stated anywhere, and none is enforced across the group, with merchant feeds over 70 MB in production on the same importer. 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 whenever Idealno.ba pulls, it reads current data.

The most consequential line of the spec is easy to miss: most values are imported into Idealno.ba'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 hladnjak RB37J5018SA”. No promo phrases like besplatna dostava or poklon, 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 Idealno.ba turns into the filters buyers narrow results with.

Idealno.ba 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, the group'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 the group'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. What a duplicated ID does is not stated on Idealno.ba's page; Ceneje's B2B FAQ (the same group and the same importer) says it 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. Idealno.ba 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.