FTP & SFTP delivery

Inventory files on your channels’ servers, every morning

Plenty of listing sites, syndication partners and website providers don’t fetch a feed URL. They give you an FTP or SFTP login and collect whatever file is waiting in a folder. MiFeed builds that file from your DMS export, checks it, and uploads it on the schedule you set, with no scripts or desktop FTP client involved.

  • SFTP, FTPS and FTP
  • Daily, every few hours or on demand
  • Every upload logged

The same file as your feed URL

A pushed file is built by exactly the same engine as a pulled one: your columns, filters, custom fields, pricing policy and photos, in CSV, TSV, JSON or XML. The channel gets what you previewed, and a feed can be pulled by one channel and pushed to another at the same time.

Uploads that can’t leave a channel with a broken file

Files go up under a temporary name and are renamed into place once complete, so a channel that collects mid-upload never gets half an inventory. If your export, pricing or photos can’t be read, nothing is uploaded and the channel keeps yesterday’s good file. Paused and draft feeds are never pushed.

  • Folder and file name you choose, with the date or rooftop in the name if the channel wants it
  • Test connection checks the login and folder before the first upload
  • Errors in plain words: wrong password, missing folder, port refused
  • Failed uploads are flagged on the feed and retried automatically

Credentials handled carefully

FTP and SFTP passwords and SSH keys are encrypted before they’re stored and are never shown again, even to admins. MiFeed remembers each SFTP server’s identity on the first upload and refuses to send your inventory to a server that suddenly presents a different one. FTPS certificates are verified too.

How it works

Live in an afternoon.

  1. STEP 01

    Connect your export

    Paste the URL of the inventory file your DMS or inventory tool already publishes. MiFeed reads it server-side and re-reads it every night.

  2. STEP 02

    Start from a template

    Pick the channel template, map any columns it could not match, and preview the output on your real vehicles.

  3. STEP 03

    Enter the channel’s login

    Paste the server, username, password or SSH key and folder the channel gave you, test the connection, and pick daily, every few hours or on demand.

FAQ

Common questions

SFTP (with a password or an SSH private key), FTPS over explicit TLS, and plain FTP. Pasting an address like sftp://user@host:2222/incoming fills in every field.

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