BookRouter™ creates a standard inventory file for all marketplaces that support File Transfer Protocol (FTP). This includes AbeBooks, Alibris, Antiqbook and Biblio, Inc. Standard BookRouter™ files are tab delimited text files with a .txt extension.
Note: BookRouter™ manages your Amazon and eBay inventories via Application Programming Interface (API). viaLibri uses an xml feed to manage listings on individual Bibliopolis websites. This article does not apply to these marketplaces.
BookRouter™ Standard Export Format: The first record in all upload files sent from BookRouter™ is a header record with fields in the following order:
skuauthortitlesubtitleplace_pubpublisherdate_pubeditionisbndescriptionbindingconditionjacket_condcommentsdj (y/n)signed (y/n)first_ed (y/n)illustratorkeywordssubject 1subject 2subject 3subject 4subject 5alt_1alt_2type* image_url pricequantity (0 = delete; > 0 = add)
* image_url BookRouter™ populates the image_url field with the primary image URL with exceptions for marketplaces that support multiple images per listing. In these instances, the image_url field contains comma separated image URLs.
Marketplace specific image_url specifications:
- ABE upload files contain up to their maximum supported five image URLs.
- Alibris upload files contain a single image URL.
- AntiqBook upload files contain a single image URL.
- Biblio upload files contain all image URLs.