Schottenland.de feed for Shopify

Schottenland works on a file you host. Its bot fetches the price list from the same URL every 15 to 60 minutes and takes over the current data. The contract promises at least one read per calendar day. There is no upload, no SFTP and no API to integrate.

Feedflock hosts the price list on a stable URL and regenerates it as often as every hour. Keep that URL reachable: when a fetch fails, Schottenland keeps showing the prices from the last good read. Your offers stay listed, but with old prices.

Schottenland does not match column names automatically. During onboarding a person maps your columns to its fields, so the names can come from your own shop system. Schottenland's own sample file uses different names from its own spec. The template uses the spec's names, which are the ones that person will recognise.

The catch is that the mapping is fixed. Once your list is live, do not rename, remove or reorder columns. If the structure has to change, tell Schottenland by e-mail right away. The contract requires it.

Schottenland does not ask for a shipping price per carrier. It asks for one per payment method, and every value is the full amount a shopper pays with that method. Shoppers must really be able to buy at price plus shipping in your shop. By default the site shows the cheapest method, and anyone can open the full list.

Shopify has no shipping price per payment method, so the template leaves all nine columns empty. That is the one place where empty is not harmless: Schottenland reads it as a method you do not offer. Fill every method you accept. Free shipping above an order value has no column of its own, so it goes into Versandkommentar.

Schottenland assigns your offers to its products by EAN, and the template fills it from Shopify's barcode field. The manufacturer number (HAN) is strongly recommended too, because it often lets matching happen automatically. Shopify has no field for it, so the template reads the custom.mpn metafield. Unknown values stay empty: Schottenland warns that placeholders like 0 or nicht bekannt cause wrong matches.

Product names must be specific. Schottenland names generic examples like Papst 80mm or 1024MB RAM and does not process them at all. The brand may appear in the name. The template sends product title plus variant title by default, so make sure your titles say what the product is.

Nothing at Schottenland is self-service. You register with the feed URL, sign the contract and send it back as a scan with your trade licence. Schottenland then checks your shop by hand and maps your columns. Once the documents are complete and the list has no errors, the listing usually starts within a few hours. There is no shorter route for shops that connect through an app.

Schottenland's price list, dated 1 February 2023, has two packages. Flex costs €0.31 per visitor with no monthly minimum. Power costs €0.24 per visitor with a €24 monthly minimum. The contract can be cancelled with two weeks' notice to the end of a month. Taking part in the merchant rating and paying by direct debit are part of the contract.