Key enhancements for this release include the following: 

• Custom Product Export
• Variations Options Order Improvement
• Updated Business Rules Functions

Click on the product areas below to get more information about the specific product areas that are relevant to you.

• Inventory
• Marketplaces
• Feeds
• Paid Search
• Facebook Campaigns

Inventory

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• Custom Product Export - When exporting product information from Inventory>Products>All Products users will be able to choose which fields are exported, creating a customized export of product data. Fields chosen for the current export will be saved for the next export.

Marketplaces

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• Amazon
  
  • Repricer Reliability - Resolved a condition where if some information that may not be relevant to the repricing calculation cannot be found, the repricer will not error out and will continue repricing.
• eBay
  • Variations Options Order Improvement - Processing has been enhanced to recognize fractions as numeric values when sorting the options in a variation listing drop-down selection.  Values such as "8 1/2" will now be sorted in numeric order between 8 and 9.
  • Upcoming: eBay Motors Catalog Change - In order to simplify the experience of listing products with the eBay catalog for automotive parts, the Catalog Product ID option will be removed from the Motors posting template in an upcoming release.  This was originally added for users that had manually identified the ePID for listing catalog products prior to our support for catalog lookup.  While only used by a small number of users, the catalog lookup functionality has been available for over a year and is much more full-featured.  If you are still using the old Catalog Product ID option, you should move that information to the Catalog Search Term field to continue the association with your eBay catalog items.  You do not need to manually look up the ePID value anymore -- you can use the automatic catalog lookup to determine that information.

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Feeds

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• New/Updated Business Rule Functions
  • The IFTOOLONG function has been updated to accept up to eight fallback text values. This allows rules with multiple IFTOOLONG calls to be simplified. For example, instead of IFTOOLONG($itemtitle,40,IFTOOLONG($itemsubtitle,40,$someattr)), you can now write IFTOOLONG($itemtitle,40,$itemsubtitle,$someattr)
  • Numeric functions MAX and MIN have been added. These functions accept two to eight numeric inputs and give you back the largest and smallest values, respectively. For example, MAX(2,1,8,4) would output 8, while MIN(2,1,8,4) would output 1.
  • New function NWORDS has been added. Given an input text value, a maximum number of words (call it "N") and a delimiter, it will return the first N words of the input text. For example, NWORDS(“The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”,4,” ”) returns "The quick brown fox"
    
    

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Paid Search

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• Support for adCenter URLs by Match Type: Microsoft is rolling out support for each keyword having a single match type, bid, and destination URL, and ChannelAdvisor will be among the first to have its clients migrated. For our users, this is very exciting, because by the end of May, you will have full support for adCenter keywords, including creating keywords by match type, as well as bidding each keyword/match type separately. If you use Inventory Driven Search on Bing/Yahoo, please contact our Customer Support team for instructions on how to migrate your account.
  
  

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Facebook Campaigns

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• ChannelAdvisor is very excited to announce the launch of Facebook Campaigns, our first social product. Facebook Campaigns is ideal for clients looking to engage with buyers and fans on Facebook by presenting seasonal sales, new products, and other special offers in a beautiful and customizable display. Using the inventory feed you already send us, you can be sure your feed is always up-to-date.
  
  

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