Flexible Content Managment System for Merchant Data Feeds

Best Off the Shelf Solution for Accepting Daily Data Feeds from Merchants

[Jonm35]

Hello All,
I'm interested in becoming an affiliate publisher for a merchant with a large and complex product offering featuring 2500 products across around 120 brands.

I have some good experience in marketing websites but no experience in building an ecommerce site.

It seems to me the only practical way that I could handle such a large and changing inventory is via a datafeed. The merchant has offered me a csv datafeed that updates daily to a specific URL.

Can anyone recommend any good off the shelf content managment systems (actually, hosted is probabaly my preference) that would be easy to customise around a specific format of data feed?

I have no previous database experience but can work in HTML.

Thanks,

Jon

[ergophobe]

I've seen tools for converting CSV merchant data feeds to Wordpress posts. That might work for you. Try some google searches like

import CSV data feeds affiliate
convert CSV affiliate data feeds

Stuff like that and you'll find some for Wordpress at least. I suspect if you and other keywords like drupal, joomla, etc, you'll find those too.

These will *not* typically create an e-commerce site for you, but rather will populate your site with affiliate links. So it will hand it off to the merchant for the shopping cart aspect.

[Jonm35]

Thanks ergophobe, your help is much appreciated. I'll check this out.

Cheers,

Jon

[anallawalla]

Joomla is supported by at least one datafeed extension. I'm at work and can't look it up but should be easy to find. IINM, it also integrates with a free shopping cart.

[Jonm35]

Cool, thanks anallawalla, good stuff.

[ergophobe]

Drupal also has a Affiliate Products Shop module, but it's still a dev project and stuck at drupal 5.x (drupal is now at 6.8).

I'm not sure if something else has replaced it or not.