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What's new in the world of ecommerce data

New Social Media API

We've just added a new Social Media API endpoint that returns details for a social media account. It doesn't work for any social media account but it supports any account linked to a store in our database. Here's an example response when looking up the Instagram account for Kylie Cosmetics (https://instagram.com/kyliecosmetics): {   "domain_names" : [     "www.kyliecosmetics.com"   ],   "details" : {     "followers_90d" : -63508,     "following" : 614,     "category" : "

Enrich Uploaded CSV Files

Let's say that you have a spreadsheet that contains a list of domains along with other information. And you'd like to enrich the file by adding data from the Store Leads database for each row. This has always been possible, but fairly complicated. You'd have to: create a CSV file that contained just a single column with the domain names import the file to a list export the matching domains then manually merge the export with your original file To make this easier, it's now possible to enrich an existing CSV file.

Import CSVs with Multiple Columns

In the past, when importing your own list of domains to Store Leads, the import file had to consist of a single column containing domain names. If you already had a spreadsheet with multiple columns, this required extra work to create a new CSV file with just a single column. We've just updated our CSV import tool to support files with multiple columns. If the file contains muliple columns, you will be asked which column contains the domain names.

Meta Keyword and Meta Description Search

Meta keywords and meta description tags are used to describe the content of a page to search engines. When we crawl a store, we capture the meta keywords and meta description tags from the store's home page. These values are used to improve our own search results. When you search for a store in Store Leads, the query matches against a variety of fields including the name of the domain, the name of the merchant, the meta keyword and description fields and others.

Failed Webhooks Support Failure Notification Emails

Webhook notifications for workflows can now be configured with a failure notification email(s). Webhook Action. When the webhook cannot be delivered to the target URL, an email will be sent to the provided email(s) describing the reason for the delivery failure. This typically only happens when the target URL times out or returns a HTTP response with a status code greater than HTTP 200. In the past, webhook delivery failures were silent.

Watches are now Workflows

Our Watch feature allowed you to configure email and webhook notifications for stores that had an App or Technology installed - or stores that matched any search. If you had a CRM integration enabled, Watches also allowed you to automatically created new CRM records for stores matching any custom criteria. We're making Watches more powerful and, as part of that change, we've renamed them to Workflows. Over the coming weeks, we'll be adding a lot of conditional behavior (for instance, if a store matches a search and already exists in HubSpot, then set a custom company property to an arbitrary value) and the new name better represents that functionality.