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RAKUTEN FEED

Rakuten Product Feed

A Rakuten product feed powers your presence across the Rakuten Advertising network — affiliate placements, retargeting and shopping partners. Pricefy builds it from your catalog, mapped to Rakuten's product-feed specification, validated before it ships and refreshed with your repriced, in-stock prices.

CSV · TSV · XML
Supported feed formats
3
Country templates in Pricefy
Scheduled URL
Feed delivery
THE BASICS

What is a Rakuten product feed?

A Rakuten product feed is a structured file of your products — each with a title, price, identifiers, product URL and image — submitted to Rakuten Advertising so your catalog can appear across its affiliate and retargeting placements. Publishers and partners use the feed to promote the right product at the right price.

The feed needs clean, complete data and current prices and stock, or products stop performing. Keeping it accurate as your catalog and prices move is the job Pricefy automates.

FEED SPECIFICATION

What Rakuten expects

The essentials of a Rakuten Advertising product feed. Pricefy maps your catalog to every required field and validates the feed before delivery — see Rakuten's product-feed documentation for the authoritative, always-current spec.

Formats
Delimited text (CSV/TSV) or XML
Delivery
Scheduled fetch from a feed URL
Identity
SKU and product identifiers (GTIN) for matching
Refresh
Keep price, sale price and availability current — daily or intraday

Core required fields

  • SKU / product id — your unique identifier
  • Product name — clear, matchable title
  • Description — accurate product detail
  • Price — the current price, with currency
  • Sale price — where a promotion applies
  • Product URL — the product landing page
  • Image URL — the main product image
  • Category — the product category
  • Availability — stock status

Exact fields are set by Rakuten Advertising and can vary by program. Pricefy's validation flags what each product is missing before the feed ships.

Rakuten Advertising: product feed specification
HOW PRICEFY EXPORTS TO RAKUTEN

From catalog to affiliate-ready feed

1

Import your catalog

Connect Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, PrestaShop or Magento — or import a CSV. Products, prices and stock sync automatically.

2

Load the Rakuten template

Pick Rakuten and your country: Pricefy loads the feed spec — required fields and format.

3

Map, enrich and validate

Map your fields to Rakuten's, ensure identifiers are present, and let validation flag incomplete products before they ship.

4

Publish price-aware

Deliver a feed URL that refreshes on schedule — carrying the prices your repricing rules produce, with out-of-stock SKUs excluded automatically.

The prices in your Rakuten feed come from your repricing engine

Most feed tools just move your catalog to Rakuten. Pricefy is a price intelligence platform first: competitor monitoring on every plan shows where you stand, and from the Pro plan up, dynamic repricing publishes your adjusted prices straight into the feed — so your affiliate and retargeting placements never promote a stale price.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Rakuten product feeds, answered

What format does a Rakuten feed use?
Rakuten Advertising accepts delimited text (CSV/TSV) and XML product feeds, typically delivered from a scheduled URL. Pricefy generates the format the program expects and validates the structure before delivery.
What fields are required for Rakuten?
The core fields are a SKU/product id, product name, description, price and sale price, product URL, image URL, category and availability, with identifiers for matching. Pricefy flags anything a product is missing before the feed ships.
Can Pricefy put my repriced prices into the Rakuten feed?
Yes — that's the point. Prices come from your Pricefy repricing rules (dynamic repricing from the Pro plan up), so your Rakuten placements reflect your live competitive position, not a stale export.

Other feed channels

Pricefy ships 1,500+ channel–country feed templates across 69 countries. Browse the full library, or see how monitoring and repricing work together.

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