Set up a feed for Cimri

Cimri is a Turkish price-comparison site. Its official feed specification is the Google Merchant RSS 2.0 format with three rules on top: prices in TRY including VAT, a file URL ending in .xml, and the standard RSS elements title, description and link without the g: prefix. The Cimri profile writes exactly that.

Before you start

• A Cimri store application: fill the store registration form on cimri.com; the feed URL field there is optional. After document review you get access to the Cimri panel and an account manager.
• Products with a price; Cimri rejects zero prices. An empty description is replaced with the product title, but a real description works better.
• 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 Cimri on Feed templates.
2. Under Feed name and market pick the Türkiye market (TR) under Market (country). Currency is locked: “Cimri 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.
4. If your Shopify prices exclude VAT, create a filter under Filters with the price rule Add VAT (%) (20 for most products) and tick it under Filters on the feed (Filters, price rules and stock).
5. Set the Refresh frequency and choose Create feed.

2. Copy the feed URL

On the feed page, under Feed URL, choose Copy URL. The URL ends with .xml, which Cimri requires.

3. Hand the URL to Cimri

Cimri has no self-service feed upload. Send the URL once to your account manager through the Cimri panel or e-mail; they register it on your store. The URL never changes, even when you edit the feed’s settings.

4. Wait for the first fetch and review

Cimri pulls the file on its own schedule; the official recommendation is at least daily. After approval your products appear on Cimri; mismatches show up as products missing from your store page on Cimri or listed under the wrong category. In Buinbu the feed page reads “Last fetched: … · Cimri” once Cimri’s crawler has downloaded the file.

How fields map

Cimri field	Shopify source	Notes
g:id	Variant SKU, else shopify_ plus the variant ID	Up to 50 characters, unique per item
title	Product title plus variant name	Without g: prefix, as in Cimri’s official example; up to 150 characters
description	Product description, plain text	Without prefix; the title when empty
link	Online Store URL with the variant parameter	Without prefix
g:image_link	Variant image, else the first product image	Public, .jpeg or .png
g:additional_image_link	Other product images	Up to 8
g:price	Variant price, TRY	199.99 TRY; VAT-inclusive as entered in Shopify, or after your VAT rule
g:sale_price	Price when a compare-at price exists	The compare-at price becomes g:price
g:availability	Inventory	in stock, out of stock, preorder (products tagged preorder); backorder is written as in stock
g:condition	new
g:brand	Vendor	Strongly affects grouping with other sellers
g:gtin, g:mpn	Valid barcode; SKU when there is no valid barcode	GTIN plus brand decides the product card match
g:product_type	Shopify product category, else product type	Your own category path, Category > Subcategory
g:google_product_category	Google product category field template	Google taxonomy; not written without a template

Fields outside Cimri’s official document, such as g:item_group_id, g:color, g:size and g:shipping_weight, are written for compatibility; whether Cimri reads them is unverified.

Common problems

Symptom on Cimri	Cause	Fix
Product not listed	Price zero or missing (left out as Missing or zero price)	Fill the price in Shopify; check Issues in the last run
Price looks too low	Prices sent without VAT	Add the Add VAT (%) price rule in a filter on the feed
Wrong category	Category path could not be matched to Cimri’s tree	Choose a Shopify product category, or write a full path with a Product type / category field template; add a Google product category template
Image missing	Image URL not public or not jpeg/png	Replace the image in Shopify
Product disappeared	Out of stock	Products with out of stock are usually set passive; they return when stock is back

More cases: Feed rejected or products flagged.