To generate a Daisycon product feed for WooCommerce, install CTX Feed, select the template that matches your product branch, and let the plugin pull your product data straight from WooCommerce into a hosted XML, CSV, or JSON file that Daisycon can fetch automatically. No manual spreadsheet work, no re-uploading every time a price changes.
This guide covers what Daisycon expects in a feed, the attributes required for it to accept your products, and the exact steps to build and upload one. If you’re comparing feed tools for affiliate networks more broadly rather than Daisycon specifically, the same plugin works as a general affiliate product feed aggregator across 220+ channels, so most of this applies beyond Daisycon too.
What Daisycon is and where it fits into WooCommerce affiliate marketing
Daisycon is a European performance marketing network that connects advertisers (that’s you, the store owner) with publishers who promote your products for a commission. It’s part of Linehub, a marketing collective that also recently absorbed the affiliate network belboon, and it operates across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, and the Nordics, with a Dutch headquarters. It’s been running since 2000, so it’s not a network you need to vet for staying power.
Daisycon runs three main services beyond straight affiliate marketing: lead generation (paying for newsletter signups or account creation rather than sales), app-install campaigns, and full campaign management through its Conversive team if you’d rather outsource the whole setup. For a WooCommerce store, the affiliate marketing side is what matters here, and it works the way most affiliate programs do: publishers promote your products, a conversion pixel tracks the sale, and you pay an agreed commission per sale or lead.
Getting a campaign live on Daisycon means working through a short onboarding checklist: installing their conversion pixel (they have a dedicated WordPress plugin for this), setting URL parameters for your own analytics, testing a sample transaction, and submitting a product feed. Everything else, commission rates, promotional banners, campaign descriptions, is a marketing setup you’ll configure once inside your Daisycon dashboard. The feed is the one piece that needs to update itself continuously, which is why it’s worth getting right from the start.
What a Daisycon product feed needs before you build one
Daisycon accepts feeds in XML, CSV, or JSON, and it wants a live, regularly updating URL rather than a one-time file upload. Beyond format, there’s a specific set of rules for what counts as a clean feed:
Formatting rules: use whole numbers (“10.00”, not “10.-“), US-style decimals (dots, not commas), and pipes (|) to separate multiple values in one field, like a category path. Skip currency symbols since a separate field already denotes currency.
Content rules: every product needs at least one image (the largest available size helps), a GTIN or EAN where you have one, and no blank fields. Don’t include category pages, promotional text, or anything that isn’t an individual product. Category and category path go in separate fields, Daisycon’s system can’t parse nested sub-categories in a single field.
Five attributes are non-negotiable for any Daisycon feed, regardless of product branch: title, description, a unique SKU, price, product link, and image. Beyond those, Daisycon organizes attribute requirements by “branch”, its term for product category or niche, and each branch has its own extended attribute list.
General branch attributes (the one most WooCommerce stores will use):
| Attribute | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Required | Product name |
| Description | Required | Plain product description |
| SKU | Required | Unique product ID |
| Price | Required | Current selling price |
| Link | Required | Direct product URL |
| Image | Required | Largest available size |
| Brand | Optional | |
| Category / category path | Optional | Separate fields, pipe-delimited if multiple |
| Google category ID | Optional | Improves classification |
| EAN | Optional | Include when available |
| In stock / in stock amount | Optional | |
| Price old | Optional | For showing discounts |
| Price shipping | Optional | |
| Condition | Optional | New, used, refurbished |
| Delivery time / description | Optional | |
| Color primary / size / size description | Optional | Fashion-adjacent fields, still valid for General |
Other branches, automotive, fashion, electronics, travel, and a dozen more, swap in category-specific fields (fuel type and tire size for automotive, for instance). Daisycon publishes the full attribute list per branch in its own documentation; the General template above covers what most WooCommerce stores need.
You can technically build this feed by hand in Excel or Google Sheets, copying Daisycon’s column headers and pasting in your product data underneath. Daisycon itself discourages this: it’s error-prone at any real catalog size, and there’s no way to keep it updated automatically when stock or pricing changes. That’s the gap a feed plugin closes.
How to generate a Daisycon product feed using CTX Feed
CTX Feed is a WooCommerce product feed plugin built for exactly this kind of automated, always-current feed generation, and it supports 220+ channels including Daisycon, Google Shopping, Meta, TikTok, and most other affiliate and comparison-shopping networks. It ships with a Daisycon template already mapped to the attribute requirements above, so you’re not manually recreating anything from the table.
- Install and activate CTX Feed from your WordPress plugins panel. A dedicated menu appears in the sidebar once it’s active.
- Click “Make Feed” to start a new feed.
- Select the Daisycon template from the Templates dropdown, choosing the branch (General, Automotive, Fashion, etc.) that matches your catalog.
- Choose your file type: XML, CSV, or JSON. Daisycon recommends XML.
- Review the auto-generated attributes. The plugin fills these in based on your branch selection, matched against your WooCommerce product data.
- Apply filters if needed, for example, excluding out-of-stock products automatically so Daisycon never sees inventory you can’t fulfill.
- Click generate. The plugin builds the feed and gives you a hosted URL.
- Set an auto-update interval from the Manage Feeds page, anywhere from every 5 minutes to once a week, so price and stock changes push through without you touching the feed again.
From Manage Feeds you can also edit, duplicate, preview, or delete any feed, and copy the live URL whenever you need it for Daisycon or another channel.
How to upload your feed to Daisycon
Once CTX Feed has generated the URL, log into your Daisycon advertiser dashboard and go to Material, then Product Feeds. Paste the feed URL there. Daisycon fetches your product data from that URL on its own schedule, so once it’s submitted you shouldn’t need to re-upload anything, the same URL keeps serving updated data as CTX Feed refreshes it.
Publishers can preview your feed from their side of Daisycon (Material, then Product Feeds, then “Show Example Products”) before deciding whether to promote your campaign. When a publisher applies, you’ll need to approve them manually from Publisher Management, checking their site or channel against your brand fit before granting access to the full feed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Daisycon work outside Europe?
Daisycon is headquartered in the Netherlands and focused on European markets, including Belgium, Germany, France, and the Nordics, but its publisher network promotes products globally. If most of your customers are outside Europe, it’s worth checking whether Daisycon’s publisher base actually reaches them before committing.
What file format does Daisycon prefer?
XML, CSV, and JSON are all accepted. Daisycon’s own documentation recommends XML with a live, auto-updating URL rather than a static file upload.
Can I use the same feed plugin for other affiliate networks, not just Daisycon?
Yes. CTX Feed isn’t Daisycon-specific, it’s a general feed aggregator that supports 220+ channels, so the same plugin can generate feeds for other affiliate networks, Google Shopping, and social commerce channels from one WooCommerce catalog.
How do commission structures work for WooCommerce affiliate programs?
Commission is typically set as either a percentage of the sale (say, 10% of a $100 sale earns the affiliate $10) or a fixed amount per sale. You configure this in Daisycon’s marketing settings when setting up your campaign, separately from the product feed itself.
Do I need a different feed for every product category?
Not necessarily. Daisycon’s General branch covers most standard WooCommerce catalogs. You’d only need a category-specific branch template (automotive, fashion, and so on) if your products have attributes that branch requires and General doesn’t cover.
Key takeaways
- Daisycon requires a live, auto-updating feed URL in XML, CSV, or JSON, not a manually uploaded file.
- Five attributes are mandatory on every Daisycon feed regardless of branch: title, description, SKU, price, link, and image.
- CTX Feed maps WooCommerce products directly to Daisycon’s template, so the attribute work is handled automatically rather than built by hand in a spreadsheet.
- Auto-update intervals (5 minutes to 1 week) mean stock and price changes push through without manual re-uploads.
- The same feed workflow works for other affiliate networks and shopping channels, CTX Feed isn’t limited to Daisycon.
- Publisher approval on Daisycon is manual: check a publisher’s site fits your brand before granting feed access.
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