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From UK shopzilla publisher blog:
"This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for…the Catalogue API solution for Shopzilla’s UK Publisher Program has now been released! After great success over the last few years in the US, the API is now available this side of the pond for our UK publishers.

In addition to our FTP Data Feeds, we are now proud to offer the Catalogue API as part of some great affiliate products, all designed to help our Publishers maximise revenues from their websites. If you’re unsure as to what the API means, read on…

What’s great about the API?

◦» It enables affiliates to dynamically retrieve product results from the Bizrate catalogue which means no manual updating.
◦» You can request shopping content data related to catalogued products and merchant offers, categories, brands and merchants.
◦» It’s a query based web service which allows Publishers to filter based on their site’s shopping content needs.
Why choose an API solution?

◦» Added user value - your visitors get a great experience by being able to browse and compare a variety of products and offers supplied by a variety of merchants.
◦» You have access to Bizrate’s entire shopping inventory - millions of products within reach, accumulating to provide fantastic shopping content.
◦» The CPC based model - get paid for every click sent through to our merchants. As well as increasing content and adding depth to your site, you’ll get paid for it!
◦» It is a free to use service, no obligation involved.
Want to benefit from this great product and add fantastic shopping content to your site? For more information or to see whether your are eligible, contact the Publisher team.
"

From Shopzilla blog:

"Currently, we offer actual price information tagged as within the element. Soon, we will additionally provide the original price and related markdown percentage to allow for display of markdown information for each offer. In the event an offer is not on sale, the response will return a markdown percentage of "0.00".



Sample XML:

$169.00
$169.00
0.00


Release: Thursday, September 16th (tentative)

API Versions: Bizrate, Beso


The release of these new fields should not impact you unless you have developed a means of auto-generating your XML handling code based on the XML schema document for the Product Service. If you have done this, you will need to update your schema.


Don't forget to follow us on Twitter for snappy release notifications! Upon release, you will be able to see an example result set returned with this new value through our Catalog API Interactive Documentation. In order to access this documentation, you will need to log in with your Catalog API Key & Publisher ID. Once you are in there, view the Product Service Resource section. At the very bottom of this section, you will see a link "[ + ] show test form". This will allow you to test out queries, viewing sample XML.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any questions.

The Shopzilla Publisher Team
"

Using the new features in the Shopzilla API, developers Datafeedscripts.net have changed the merchant page. For example: Staples Store Detail

The new page contains:

- Contact Information
ex:
Physical Address:
500 Staples Drive
Framingham MA 01702
UNITED STATES

Customer Service:
Tel: 1-800-378-2753
Email: support@orders.staples.com
Web site: http://www.orders.staples.com

-Features & Services

ex:
Ordering Methods
Order phone number: (800) 378-2753
Toll-free order phone number: (800) 378-2753
Order fax number
Site search available
Customer info confidential
Live customer service available
Online order tracking
Online shopping cart system
Secure checkout
100% Money back guarantee

Delivery Methods
Next day delivery available
First class delivery available
Ground delivery available
Other delivery method

Payment Methods
American Express
Discover
MasterCard
Visa

-And the new section contains Customer Reviews
3139 Reviews Total

ex: 5.0 Customer support
5.0 Product met expectations
5.0 Availability of product you wanted
5.0 Overall satisfaction
5.0 Order tracking
5.0 On-time delivery - Product arrived when expected
5.0 Would shop here again
5.0 Charges stated clearly before order submission
5.0 Shipping charges
4.0 Prices relative to other online merchants
4.0 Variety of shipping options

by tom, Thursday, September 09, 2010 9:23 PM
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Shopzilla API developers have changed the type of query share information about merchants. New request is: Merchant Service.

The Merchant Service allows your application to access data about our merchants. It returns three major types of data elements: Merchant Info, Merchant Ratings, and Merchant Reviews. Within the Merchant Info element, this service returns both basic merchant data, such as logo and URL, as well as detailed meta data including description and other attributes. Within the Merchant Ratings element, this service returns detailed merchant ratings data. Within the Merchant Reviews element, the service returns both detailed merchant review data and corresponding merchant response data.

Correspondingly, this service can be used for any combination of four major types of queries:

•lookup of basic merchant data, including merchant logo and URL
•lookup of detailed merchant data, including merchant description and other attributes
•lookup of merchant ratings data
•lookup of merchant reviews data

Data Refresh: Merchant Service content should be cached for no more than one (1) day.

Old Service (Merchant Info Service) will no longer be available after September 15, 2010.