SERVICES OpenIcecat - Unique, free OpenIcecat catalogue
OpenIcecat is a worldwide unique open catalogue with product data-sheets in co-operation with 250+ sponsoring manufacturers and 10,000+ using channel partners. More than 30 languages are supported incl. English (UK, US), Chinese (Traditional, Simplified), Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Russian, Arabic, Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Dutch, Polish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Czech, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Greek, Kroatian, Catalan and Georgian.
FOR CHANNEL PARTNERS:
- The Open Icecat-catalogue for free in your shop or ERP-system?
What are the unique advantages of free Open Icecat?
- 250+ major brands included
- more than half a million vendor-approved, standardized product data-sheets
- cross-sell and up-sell relationships included
- easy-to-integrate in your website or ERP system
- distribution under the Open Content License agreement
- standardized product information for search & compare
- the market standard for the online channel
Register online for Open Icecat & find out more.
The free open catalogue is available in xml format or url format.
- URL-format = links to datasheets and to product images. Easy-to-use in any ERP or webshop. Example datasheet. Download the technical URL documentation.
- XML-format = all data per product in an easy format for developers. Download the technical Icecat XML-documentation.
- Full Icecat for full coverage of your assortment
The advantages of Full Icecat are:
- 4.000+ brands supported
- 1.000.000+ product data-sheets
- coverage guarantee for your assortment (now for: IT, Telecom, Consumer Electronics & Office)
Please, register first online for free OpenIcecat or contact us now. If you want to analyze the coverage of your catalog, please use our matching file.
- Your offers included in our open price comparision site? (Free basic listing)
Your shop prices can be included in the Icecat comparison site. This is a free basic listing in line with our Open Content philosophy. You can upload your price export file (preferably CSV), with at least the following columns: [Brand], [Manufacturer Part No], [Price ex VAT] and/or [Price inc VAT], [Stock qty], and [Deeplink to the product in your shop]. You also need to mention the supported payment methods, countries where you deliver, minimum delivery cost, and memberships. Login or register online to upload your shop prices!
Via our clickthrough manager you can monitor the unique clickthroughs you receive, from which robot clickthroughs and double clickthroughs are filtered away. We provide you the option to show your offers more prominently with your webshop logo, above the free ads.
- You need help with your webshop or PIM?
If you need a (new) webshop that is well-integrated with (Open) Icecat, we recommend the following open source solutions:
- Batavi including a free Icecat interface
- Prestashop
- osCommerce (a.o. support by bintime)
- Magento Commerce
In case that you need a datahub or editing environment, we provide our Product Information Manager (PIM) of Icecat under the GNU open source license. Download the Icecat PIM at sourceforge.net!
- Integrating expert reviews, awards and ratings? (Free via Open Icecat)
We co-operate with Testseek in providing our Open Icecat users with free product reviews, awards and ratings. See our xml documentation for reviews! You need a free Open Icecat registration to access this data.
| CONTENT SYNDICATION FOR MANUFACTURERS:
- You represent a brand and want to publish datasheets to your channel partners (Open Icecat)?
What are the advantages for your brand?
- free, uniform product content for the channel (now more than 11,000+ channel partners in EMEA/WW)
- more visibility of your product info = more sales
- up-sell and X-sell to increase margin
- original & high-quality product content
- inclusion of multimedia: PDFs, video, photo galleries etc.
- cost-effective
- market intelligence based on one billion yearly product data-sheet downloads
- your competitors are already in
You want to know more?
- You want to understand your market dynamics better?
As we measure end-user buyer orientation, and partner downloads, daily import 100s of price & stock lists from connected resellers... Icecat is a goldmine for marketeers trying to understand their positioning in the online channel:
- Buyer orientation reports (based on 1 billion annual datasheet downloads)
- Marketing trends
- Sales out reports
- Stock reports
- Channel pricing reports
You want to know more?
- You want to cost-effectively generate traffic for your channel partners?
We help our sponsors with Campaigns:
- By Google Adwords and other ad networks
- Integration of online offers into affiliate marketing sites like DoubleClick
- Channel mailings
You want to know more?
- You want to convert your website visitors (prospects) into buyers and increase sales?
Icecat introduces a new service called ICEleads. We list the appropriate online merchants for any given product on the manufacturer website including a "buy now" link. Performance & merchant conversion is monitored. Benefits:
- increase sales;
- improve customer experience;
- monitor (merchant) performance;
- convert prospects into buyers;
- create business partner loyalty.
You want to know more?
- You need help with your internal Product Information Management?
If you don't have a centralized resource yet for Product Information Management (PIM, sometimes called PDM short for Product Data Management or CMS short for Catalog Management System), Icecat provides its own web-based IcecatPIM, which is able to handle millions of product data-sheets, uses the OpenIcecat XML standard and is easy to integrate with external sources. It can help you facilitate your company's internal product data management needs, and at the same time those of your external channel partners.. it is a Must. The PIM system of Icecat is available under the GNU open source license, and can be tailored for your company's needs.
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