Customize Shopify with Feedyio

The direct Shopify connection is the fastest way to bring products into clasify Business. If you need full control over the description, the image order or how your range is split up, we recommend the Shopify app Feedyio. With it, you build your own product feed and connect it to clasify Business through feed import.

Either the direct connection or a feed

With Feedyio, your products come in through Integrationen → Feed-Import (Integrations → Feed import), not through the Shopify integration. You do not need the direct Shopify connection in this case. Choose one of the two routes for each part of your range so you do not end up with duplicate articles.

When is Feedyio worth it?

The direct Shopify connection covers the standard case well: import products, keep prices and stock in sync, and compose descriptions with the Shopify description builder.

Feedyio is worth it when you want to customize beyond that. In Feedyio you design the feed freely with a template: which fields it contains, how the description is structured, which images appear in which order and which products are included in the feed at all. clasify Business then takes the finished feed over 1:1. Control stays entirely with you in the Shopify backend.

Two practical examples:

• Design your ads completely yourself: A furniture dealer builds the ad description entirely on their own, with fixed text blocks for pickup, delivery and opening hours, structured product details such as dimensions and material, and an exact image order in which an info image always appears in a fixed position.
• Tailor your range precisely: A bike dealer uses filters in Feedyio to include only the products that should actually be advertised, and so controls directly in Shopify what appears on Kleinanzeigen.

Recommended feed structure

Feedyio can output feeds as XML, JSON or CSV. We recommend XML to get started. You can choose the field names freely, and clasify maps them during import. If you use the names from the example, clasify recognizes all fields automatically and you do not have to map anything manually:

<products>
  <product>
    <sku>8114</sku>
    <title>Großer Kleiderschrank Teak Vintage</title>
    <description><![CDATA[# Großer Kleiderschrank Teak

Beschreibungstext mit **fett gedrucktem Text**
- Aufzählungspunkt 1
- Aufzählungspunkt 2]]></description>
    <price>1100</price>
    <price_type>Festpreis</price_type>
    <product_type>Schränke</product_type>
    <brand>Meine Marke</brand>
    <condition>Gebraucht</condition>
    <zip>13357</zip>
    <image>https://cdn.shopify.com/.../bild-1.jpg</image>
    <image>https://cdn.shopify.com/.../bild-2.jpg</image>
    <image>https://cdn.shopify.com/.../bild-3.jpg</image>
  </product>
</products>

Four points matter here:

1. Images: One <image> line per image, in exactly the order in which the images should appear in the ad. clasify keeps the order 1:1.
2. Category: The value in product_type should describe concretely what the item is, for example Lampen (lamps), Schränke (wardrobes) or Schreibtische (desks) instead of just a general term like Möbel (furniture). That lets clasify automatically assign your articles to the matching Kleinanzeigen category.
3. Description: Put the finished text between <![CDATA[ and ]]>. Write line breaks as you normally would, and please do not use HTML tags such as <br> or <p>.
4. Price: Whole euro amounts without a currency symbol, for example 1100. For the price type price_type, use Festpreis (fixed price) or VB (negotiable).

Set up the feed

1. Install Feedyio in your Shopify store.

2. In Feedyio, create a Custom Feed in XML format and build the template following the recommended structure above. Use filters to decide which products are included in the feed.

3. Copy the feed URL from Feedyio.

4. In clasify Business, open Integrationen → Feed-Import (Integrations → Feed import) and paste the feed URL.

5. Save the connection and check a test article, paying particular attention to the title, description, category, price and image order.

6. On the Plus plan, start the sync manually, or enable auto-sync from Pro.

One feed per account

clasify Business currently processes one URL feed per account. If you want to cover several locations or ranges, combine them into a single feed in Feedyio and tell them apart through the field values, for example through the postal code (PLZ) per product.

Scope and support

Feedyio is a standalone, paid app from a third-party provider in the Shopify App Store. The prices are manageable and depend on the Feedyio plan you choose. Questions about building the feed template are answered by Feedyio support. For everything that concerns the import and publishing in clasify Business, we are happy to help you at [email protected]. Feel free to send us your feed URL and we will look at the mapping together.