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title: "Product Category feed"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Discover the essential structure for your Product Category feed. Learn required fields, data types, and optional attributes to optimize your product categorization and enhance your Customer Data Platform."
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Product Category feed structure
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Field name

Importance

Data type

Referential integrity

Description

**SourceCategoryNumber (key)**

**Required**

String

Product:SourceCategoryNumber

The unique identifier of the category in your data.

**Name**

**Required**

String

 

The name of the category. This field cannot be empty.

**SourceParentCategoryNumber**

**Required**

String

ProductCategory:SourceCategoryNumber

The identifier of the parent category in your data. Leave the field empty if the record is for a category at the highest level.

**DateCreated**

Optional

Datetime

 

The date the record was created in the client’s system.

**Custom attributes**

Optional

Any of the types such as float, datetime, strings, boolean

 

The custom attributes that you want to use inside the Customer Data Platform (CDP) application. This customization is not self-service. You must engage with your customer value manager (CVM) and it involves deployment effort.