Methods to send XML feed file

Use any of the following methods to send your XML feed file to the Bazaarvoice SFTP server:

• Only full feeds: You can upload a full periodic catalog feed to Bazaarvoice, including all current data for active products and categories, followed by incremental feeds. Regularly submitting a full feed is not recommended, as it significantly increases your system load, along with network traffic and import time.
  
• Incremental feed files: Provide incremental feeds along with periodic full feeds to ensure the fastest updates to your catalog.
  
  

  Caution: If you use incremental feeds only and you never provide a full feed to Bazaarvoice, it is possible that catalog data may become out of sync with your source product catalog if an incremental feed upload is missed or fails in any way.         

• Only incremental feeds: If you are only providing incremental feeds, ensure that you include the `removed="true"` attribute. Refer to Control the active set of products for more information about this approach.
  

  

  Caution: Provide incremental feed files only once per day and keep file sizes around 400MB to ensure timely and reliable updates. 

Define feed upload type

To specify whether your XML feed is full or incremental, set the incremental attribute within the <Feed> element. Refer to Example feed elements for a sample file.