If you want rapid revenue growth for your store, ShareASale is a suitable tool for the task. This affiliate network has generated 194 million sales in 2021, which resulted in $16 billion in revenue for merchants.
All you need to start on ShareASale is a product feed - a file with information on your products, including prices, availability, size, color, etc.
The ShareASale marketplace has a typical product feed in a CSV format. However, placing your products exactly into the categories they belong to may be troublesome if you want to map them manually. Here is how OmegaCommerce Shopping Feed solves the problem for you.
A product feed for ShareASale requires a tedious process of choosing the category and subcategory. This is not a problem if you sell one type of product. However, specifying categories accordingly to the ShareASale requirements will require a lot of time for merchants who sell multiple product types.
Of course, we couldn't leave our customers without a technical solution. Mulwi Shopping Feeds app simplifies the ShareASale feed generation to a few clicks.
What is 
ShareASale is a large North American service that connects merchants and news/blog website owners in order to promote their products. This approach is called affiliate marketing.
ShareASale, part of the Axel Springer and United Internet Groups, is used by more than 21 200 merchants who promote their products on more than 241 000 publisher sites.
The affiliate marketing group ShareASale, to which the company belongs, has generated $16 billion in revenue for merchants and $1.3 billion for its publishers globally.
How the category mapping in ShareASale feed became easy
Any eCommerce store can join ShareASale by providing a product feed, which is an ordinary feed file in CSV format. However, the ShareASale requirements for category mapping make creating it rather tedious.
The marketplace requires each product to have a Category and a Subcategory. ShareASale provides a list of allowed values for each of these two data fields. A product feed should contain the data for Category and Subcategory only from that list.
Typically the Category and Subcategory are strings, but ShareASale accepts only integer values for these data fields from the lists below:
ShareASale product categories
The following integer values represent product categories on Shareasale.com:
- 1: Art/Media/Performance
- 2: Auto/Boat/Plane
- 3: Books/Reading
- 4: Business/Services
- 5: Computer
- 6: Electronics
- 7: Entertainment
- 8: Fashion
- 9: Food/Beverage
- 10: Gifts/Specialty
- 11: Home/Family
- 16: Metaphysical
- 17: Parts/Equipment
- 12: Personal Care
- 13: Sports/Outdoors
- 14: Toys/Games
- 15: Travel
ShareASale subcategories
The following integer values correspond to a ShareASale product subcategory:
- Art/Media/Performance Subcategories
- 1: Art
- 2: Photography
- 3: Posters/Prints
- 4: Music
- 5: Music Instruments
- 187: Art Supplies
- Auto/Boat/Plane Subcategories
- 6: Accessories
- 7: Car Audio
- 8: Cleaning/Care
- 9: Motorcycles
- 10: Misc.
- 11: Repair
- 12: Parts
- Books/Reading Subcategories
- 13: Art
- 14: Careers
- 15: Business
- 16: Childrens
- 17: Computers
- 18: Crafts/Hobbies
- 19: Education
- 20: Engineering
- 21: Gifts
- 22: Health
- 23: History
- 24: Fiction
- 25: Law
- 26: Magazines
- 27: Financial
- 28: Medical
- 29: Office
- 30: Real Estate
- 31: Misc.
- 164: Religious
- 173: Science/Nature
- Business/Services Subcategories
- 32: Advertising
- 33: Motivational
- 34: Coupons/Freebies
- 35: Financial
- 36: Loans
- 37: Office
- 38: Careers
- 39: Mis.
- 179: Education
- Computer Subcategories
- 40: Hardware
- 41: Software
- 42: Instruction
- 43: Handheld/Wireless
- 162: Web Hosting
- Electronics Subcategories
- 44: Audio
- 45: Video
- 46: Camera
- 47: Wireless
- Entertainment Subcategories
- 48: Audio
- 49: Video
- 50: DVD
- 51: Laser Disc
- 52: Sheet Music
- 53: Crafts/Hobbies
- 184: Tickets
- Fashion Subcategories
- 54: Boys
- 55: Clearance
- 56: Vintage
- 57: Girls
- 58: Mens
- 59: Womens
- 60: Maternity
- 61: Footware
- 62: Accessories
- 63: Baby/Infant
- 64: Jewelry
- 65: Lingerie
- 66: Plus-Size
- 67: Athletic
- 161: T-Shirts
- 166: Big And Tall
- 168: Petite
- 169: Unisex
- 172: Costumes
- Food/Beverage Subcategories
- 68: Baked Goods
- 69: Beverages
- 70: Chocolate
- 71: Cheese/Condiments
- 72: Coupons
- 73: Diet
- 74: International
- 75: Gifts/Gift Baskets
- 76: Nuts
- 77: Cookies/Desserts
- 78: Organic
- 163: Tobacco
- 176: Gourmet
- 177: Meals/Complete Dishes
- 180: Appetizers
- 181: Soups
- Gifts/Specialty Subcategories
- 79: Anniversary
- 80: Birthday
- 81: Misc. Holiday
- 82: Collectibles
- 83: Coupons
- 84: Executive Gifts
- 85: Flowers
- 86: Baskets
- 87: Greeting Card
- 88: Baby/Infant
- 89: Party
- 90: Religious
- 91: Sympathy
- 92: Valentine's Day
- 93: Wedding
- 170: Personalized
- Home/Family Subcategories
- 94: Bed/Bath
- 95: Garden
- 96: Cleaning/Care
- 97: Furniture
- 98: Home Décor
- 99: Home Improvement
- 100: Kitchen
- 101: Pets
- Metaphysical Subcategories
- 160: Metaphysical
- Parts/Equipment Subcategories
- 167: HVAC (Heating and Air Conditioning)
- 171: Medical
- 182: Military
- Personal Care Subcategories
- 102: Cosmetics
- 103: Exercise/Wellness
- 104: Safety
- 183: Medical
- Sports/Outdoors Subcategories
- 105: Accessories
- 106: Auto
- 107: Outdoors/Camping
- 108: Parlor/Backyard Games
- 109: Baseball/Softball
- 110: Cricket
- 111: Billiards
- 112: Boating
- 113: Body Building/Fitness
- 114: Bowling
- 115: Boxing
- 116: Canoeing
- 117: Climbing/Mountaineering
- 118: Cycling
- 119: Diving
- 120: Field Hockey
- 121: Skating
- 122: Fishing
- 123: Football
- 124: Frisbee
- 125: Golf
- 126: Gymnastics
- 127: Hockey
- 128: Horses
- 129: Hunting
- 130: In-line Skating
- 131: Kayaking
- 132: Lacrosse
- 133: Martial Arts
- 134: Racquetball
- 135: Running
- 136: Skateboards
- 137: Ski/Snowboard
- 138: Soccer
- 139: Surfing
- 140: Tennis
- 141: Teamware / Logo
- 142: Volleyball
- 143: Wrestling
- 165: Birding
- 174: Prospecting/Treasure Hunting
- 175: Swimming
- 178: Basketball
- Toys/Games Subcategories
- 144: Action
- 145: Animals
- 146: Baby/Infant
- 147: Board Games
- 148: Card/Casino
- 149: Electronic
- 150: Educational
- 151: Magic
- 152: Misc.
- 153: Musical
- 154: Outdoor
- 155: Video
- Travel Subcategories
- 156: Coupons
- 157: Maps
- 158: References / Guides
- 159: Vacation Travel
- 185: Luggage
- 186: Accessories
So for every product in your store, you have to open the ShareASale official list of categories and subcategories, find the ones that correspond to your product, copy the integer values and paste the numbers into the feed file.
This can be a tedious task even if you sell one type of product. However, if you sell various types of products, you need to automate the process of setting categories and subcategories in your feed.
Set ShareASale categories in a few clicks
Our app automates the selection of category and subcategory values. Moreover, with its autocomplete function, you have to deal only with human-readable data.
Simply start typing the category or subcategory name your products belong to, and the app will look through the ShareASale list. You will just have to select the most appropriate in the list of search results (this is also known as category mapping).
The autocomplete function works both for static and dynamic category mapping. Simply choose a ShareASale taxonomy and proceed with mapping categories as usual.
The final step for any ShareASale feed
A product feed that fully meets the ShareASale requirements is only one step to being published on this marketplace. Upload it into your account on this service, and get a boost for your sales.