Set up a feed for Akakçe

Akakçe is Türkiye’s largest price-comparison site. It does not accept the Google format; it uses its own schema with products/product items, shipping fee, dispatch days and a full category path. The Akakçe profile writes that schema.

Before you start

• A store application on akakce.com (store application page). Approval times are not published; after approval you send the feed URL to Akakçe support once and receive an authorisation e-mail.
• Your shipping fee and dispatch time. They are feed settings in Buinbu and apply to every product in the feed.
• Products with a brand; Akakçe does not list unbranded products.
• Barcodes (EAN or UPC) wherever products have them: GTIN is the main matching key, name and brand matching is slow and error-prone.
• Prices including VAT. Buinbu sends your Shopify prices as they are; if you enter prices without VAT, add a VAT price rule (step 1).

1. Create the feed in Buinbu

1. Open Export, choose Create feed and pick Akakçe on Feed templates.
2. Under Feed name and market pick the Türkiye market (TR). Currency is locked: “Akakçe only accepts TRY”. Prices in any other currency make the run fail with Currency mismatch.
3. Keep Leave gift cards out on and leave out-of-stock products in: Akakçe keeps the listing when quantity is 0.
4. If your Shopify prices exclude VAT, tick a filter with the price rule Add VAT (%) under Filters (Filters, price rules and stock).
5. Under Akakçe shipping fill in:
   • Shipping fee (TRY, 0 = free).
   • Dispatch time (business days, 0 = same day), 0 to 30; the default is 2.
   • Same-day cut-off hour (0-23): appears and is required when the dispatch time is 0.
   • Warranty: Not specified, Distributor warranty or Parallel import.
6. Set the Refresh frequency and choose Create feed.

To change shipping later, choose Edit settings on the feed page; the URL stays the same.

2. Copy the feed URL

On the feed page, under Feed URL, choose Copy URL.

3. Send the URL to Akakçe

Reply to Akakçe support with the URL once. The URL never changes; if you delete the feed and create a new one, notify them of the new URL. Akakçe pulls the file on its own schedule and makes no interval commitment, so the feed should refresh often and always be available.

4. Allow the crawler and wait

If your store or CDN blocks unknown bots, allow Akakçe’s crawler. Buinbu serves the feed from its own domain, so the feed file itself is reachable; the product pages on your store must also be reachable, including pages of out-of-stock products. Akakçe’s crawler IP addresses circulate in third-party integrations (unverified); ask Akakçe support for the current list. In Buinbu the feed page reads “Last fetched: … · Akakçe” once the crawler has downloaded the file.

How fields map

Akakçe element	Shopify source	Notes
sku	Variant SKU, else the variant ID	Unique per product element
name	Product title plus variant name	Up to 200 characters; titles with promotional wording are rejected; title template
url	Online Store URL with the variant parameter	Up to 255 characters, longer ones are left out as Product URL too long; must not return 404, even when out of stock
imgUrl	Variant image, else the first product image	At least 250 px wide; URL up to 255 characters, else left out as Image URL too long
additionalimages/imgUrl	Other product images	Up to 5
description	Product description	HTML inside CDATA; the title when empty
distributor	Warranty	true or false; omitted when Not specified
price	Variant price, TRY, VAT included	109.69: dot decimal, two digits, no currency symbol; the selling price, so it must equal the cart price
shipPrice	Shipping fee	0.00 = free shipping
dayOfDelivery, expressDeliveryTime	Dispatch time, Same-day cut-off hour	The cut-off hour is written only for same-day dispatch
quantity	Inventory	Stock count; 9999 when inventory is not tracked but the product is for sale; 0 when out of stock
productBrand	Vendor	Up to 60 characters; empty when the vendor is empty (warning No brand)
productCategory	Shopify product category, else product type	Full path such as Elektronik > Telefon > Cep Telefonu; products without either are left out as No category
barcode	Valid barcode	Manufacturer EAN or UPC; missing barcodes give the warning No barcode

Akakçe has no group element for variants; each variant is its own product with a deep link. Buinbu does not write campaignCode or localDelivery.

Common problems

Symptom	Cause	Fix
Product not listed	Left out in Buinbu (No category, Missing or zero price, No image, Product URL too long), or no brand	Check Issues in the last run and fill the vendor
Price warning	Price sent without VAT	Add the Add VAT (%) price rule in a filter on the feed
Feed not updated, Same-day cutoff missing	Dispatch time 0 without a cut-off hour	Enter Same-day cut-off hour (0-23) under Edit settings
Wrong category	Only a leaf category sent	Choose a Shopify product category, or write a full path with a Product type / category field template
Feed never fetched	Firewall blocks Akakçe’s crawler, or the URL changed	Allow the crawler; resend the URL
Title rejected	Promotional phrase in the title	Clean the titles in Shopify, or rewrite them with a Title field template

More cases: Feed rejected or products flagged.