Yfifx is an online service for imporing products into your your Shopify store. Yfifx allows you to build your products database and updating prices and stocks for online Shopify stores. It is not only a tool for automatic processing of supplier feeds, but it has functions for repricing, products content update. yfifx is the best practices for working with Shopify’s feeds of suppliers and competitors, price monitoring and content web scrapers etc.
Import feeds of any format
You will be able to import products from feeds of the following formats:
and any of their options. In the user interface, you just need to specify the mapping of the columns / feeds and that’s it!
These options are important because it will allow you to start working with new suppliers quickly and the wide set of options for feeds processing will help you to prepare data the best way.
You can Export products data in the following formats
- CSV, Excel, XML, JSON
- API access
- Direct import/update/sync
It is hard to suggest what is the best way for products export for your case because it depends on your experience.
But if you have experience we think that you use some other tools for products post-processing and you will use yfifx for data preparation mostly.
In this case preferred way for experiences users will be to export data via API to your own software.
Options for feeds import
- manual upload from PC
- web link (http)
- ftp
- dropbox
- google drive
- api
If you business is growing I believe that you have a lot of suppliers who share products feeds with you different ways. And for increasing frequency for products update at your store you need to automate products import from suppliers feeds. yfifx works here well and saves a lot of your time here. It can import new products data even each hour.
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Connect new suppliers
- check wholesales prices
- increase the assortment
- work with dropshipping model
- check supplier prices
It will allow you to be different if compare with the other dropshipping players. When they need to spend 1 week to connect with new supplier you can do this job for 1-2 hours. It will increase your SEO positions for google.
Compare Products
- find the best supplier for each product
- check competitors prices
- manual and automatic functions for products matching
- compare similar products
If you sell the same product from different suppliers yfifx allows you to select the best price and the best supplier for each product. Agree that if you have dropshipping store you can publish the best price on your store – your clients will like it!
Price calculation
- by formulas
- RRP/MRP formulas
- only for products with availability
- filters by categories, brands, price ranges
- the ability to set manually
- suppliers priorities
- shipping costs
You always need to recalculate final prices for your products, yfifx allows you to save time for that. Define formulas/rules/filters for price changes once and it will work for you each time when yfifx starts your MainFeed update.
RRP support
- use RRP if exists
- sell cheaper than RRP
- sell above the RRP
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If your supplies have RRP/MRP yfifx will take that into account when does repricing for your products.
If you do not want to get penalties for your dropshipping store you need to process RRP right way for all your products you sell.
But if you want to “play” with RRP prices and to sell higher or lower you can use specific functions for this at yfifx.
Updating prices and quantities
- fully automatic update
- update by all formulas
- set up once and forgot
- protection against dumping
Product content
- products with variants (combinatoins with options) are supported
- all complex options are supported
- import from other feeds
- functions to update the required products fields
Automatic processing of feeds
- starting the processing of feeds on a schedule
- automation of the chain of actions
- automatic download of feeds by links, from mail, by API
- automatic processing of imported feeds
Content Search
- You can connect your ICECAT Api key and to search content for your items
- automatic & manual searches are supported
Scheduled start
- all actions can be started automatically
- download feeds
- import new products
- update old products
- filtering by category
- loading new currency exchange rates
- updating prices taking into account the margin (according to all formulas)
- export data to the site
Competitors Price Monitoring
- compare prices
- web scraper will collect product prices
- import new data
- use to recalculate your prices
Product change history
For each feed
- shows new products
- shows disappeared products
- shows products where the quantity is changed
- shows products where the price is changed
- display of changes in graphs and tables
If it interesting to know what was changed at suppliers feed, where changed stocks, prices etc.
yfifx shows these changes.
If you want to start google AD campaign or facebook AD campaign for your store you can analyze product changes before and to take products what fit your criteria.
Price analysis
- analysis of price changes
- analysis of changes in availability
- analysis of suppliers’ feed
- analysis of competitors’ feed
We support a lot of CMS for products import / update / repricing.