Cheaper By The Day - Turning Auctions Upside Down

Submit A Bulk Upload

When you are a seller and Submit A Bulk Upload, we upload your file to our servers, then process and list those items for sale at Cheaper By The Day. All of the items that you currently have for sale are either updated or deleted depending on the product_id. This allows you to include in your new bulk upload only those items that are currently in stock, and your listings at Cheaper By The Day will automatically reflect those changes from your previous bulk upload.




Submission Guidelines

  • Must be a tab-delimited plain text (.txt) file.
    • Open a Microsoft Excel (.xls) file here
    • Enter your items information in each of the attributes columns
    • Click on "File - Save As ...", enter your file name, and "Save as type:" a tab-delimited text (.txt) file
  • The first line must contain the following attribute names (with the appropriate information on subsequent lines) in the following order:
    • product_id
    • categories
    • days
    • max_price
    • min_price
    • shipping_us
    • alaska_hawaii
    • canada
    • shipping_notes
    • description
    • brand
    • condition
    • image_url
    • title
  • Only one item per line, and separate each attribute in that line by a tab.
  • Do not include trailing tabs at the end of lines.
  • Do not include tabs or line breaks in the attributes themselves.

product_id - A unique alphanumeric identifier for the item - your internal ID code. - e.g. 01flx

categories - The item's category and subcategory separated by a '|'. When possible, match these with the categories used at Cheaper By The Day (use form below). - e.g. computers | pda & handhelds

days - The number of days duration you would like the price to be reduced from your maximum price, to the minimum price. You can choose either a 3, 5, 7, or 10 day listing. - e.g. 5

max_price - The highest price you would like to sell your item for. Do not include the dollar sign. - e.g. 75.68

min_price - The lowest price you would like to sell your item for. - e.g. 54.35

shipping_us* - The amount you will charge for shipping within the Continental US - e.g. 5.99

alaska_hawaii* - The amount you will charge when shipping to Alaska and Hawaii - e.g. 0.00 (A value of 0.00 would indicate that you do not offer shipping to this location.)

canada* - The amount you will charge when shipping to Canada - e.g. 7.85

shipping_notes* - Additional shipping information that you would like to include. Maximum length of 80 characters.

description* - The description of the item.

brand* - The brand name, manufacturer, or publisher of the product. Maximum length of 30 characters. - e.g. Sony

condition* - The condition of the product. Acceptable values are new, used, and refurbished.

image_url* - The URL of an associated, full-sized image for the item. (Must include the http:// portion.) - e.g. http://www.yourwebsite.com/image1.jpg

title - The title of the item. Maximum length of 60 characters.

* Can be left blank, but the field must still exist.




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