Zid to TikTok: branded catalog ad images

Zid stores get branded TikTok catalog ad images by giving CatalogBadge their Zid product feeds link and giving a TikTok catalog our tiktok-full.csv on an hourly Replace schedule. The file is that catalog’s whole product list. CatalogBadge plans start at $49 a month in US dollars, and your feeds carry your own photos until a plan or free trial is active.

Step 1: get your product feed from Zid

1. In your Zid dashboard, open Online store, then SEO, then Product feeds.
2. Choose a platform, a language your store has switched on and the currency, and generate the link. Zid writes the same Google RSS file on your own domain whichever platform you pick.
3. Start with the language most of your titles are written in, usually Arabic, and copy the link.

In Zid’s link each product’s id is its Zid product id, a long UUID rather than the SKU, and the brand column holds your store name. Both pass to every channel unchanged.

Step 2: add the feed to CatalogBadge

Create your account, choose Onboard a store and paste the feed URL. The wizard shows sample products with their prices before anything is saved, then you pick your designs, check them in the preview and go live. Create your account

The Zid setup guide has every screen of the wizard.

Step 3: put tiktok-full.csv into TikTok

Which file you paste depends on how your TikTok catalog gets products today:

In TikTok

1. In TikTok Ads Manager, open Assets, then Catalogs, and choose the catalog for your catalog ads.
2. Add products with a data feed schedule and paste your tiktok-full.csv URL.
3. Set the schedule to hourly and the update method to Replace, so a product that leaves our file leaves the catalog too. Update would keep it with its old price and image.
4. Use one of our two TikTok files per catalog, the CSV or its XML twin, never both: TikTok refuses a product that a second data source already added.

The image TikTok gets

TikTok’s file carries the 1:1 image first and, when you turn them on, the 4:5 and 9:16 renders as additional images, JPG or PNG, at most ten per product. The 9:16 is the one shown here. TikTok has no supplementary feed, so this file is your whole TikTok catalog.

Watch out

Zid’s link fills brand with your store name, so TikTok’s brand rule is met. If it carries no condition, add condition new as a TikTok column under Feed & mapping in CatalogBadge; until then TikTok leaves those products out.

Selling in Saudi Arabia

Prices stay in riyals exactly as your feed writes them, the discount badge rounds down, and a tabby or tamara line can show the instalment on the image.

Season presets for Saudi Arabia, such as White Friday, Ramadan, Founding Day and Saudi National Day, switch your designs on the dates you choose.

Check that it worked

• The Overview page lists how many products went into the TikTok file and, per reason, the ones left out.
• In Ads Manager the catalog shows its last schedule run, the products taken and any rejected.
• TikTok pauses catalog updates after 28 days without catalog ad spend, so prices there go stale while those ads are off.

Questions

Do I need a separate Zid link for TikTok?

No. CatalogBadge reads your one Zid link, whichever platform you picked when you generated it, and writes a separate file per channel in the shape that channel takes.

Do the ids match the ones Zid’s Meta and Snapchat apps use?

Zid’s link names each product by its Zid product id, a UUID, not the SKU. Open two or three products in your Meta or Snapchat catalog: when their ids are the same UUIDs, our files line up with the catalog the Zid app built.