Creating New Offers in Bulk

Creating new offers in bulk gives you great flexibility and automates your daily work. With the Bulk Actions feature, you can import up to 250 offers and set them up in your ad campaigns. In a blink of an eye. Easy.

First, you need to learn how to prepare the data to deliver it formatted appropriately for the Voluum's structure. In order to jump right in, Voluum provides you the CSV template that indicates which columns should be filled in with accurate pieces of information.

To get the Voluum template where you can add your offers, perform the steps:

1. Sign in to Voluum.
2. Go to the Offers. The Offers view will show up.
3. Click the Export/Import > Import new offers drop-down button. The Import new offers form will show up.

4. Go to the first step of the importing process and click the CSV template button to download the CSV file with a predefined file structure.

   Tip

   Voluum Tip: You need to follow a data pattern implemented in the Voluum platform to be able to upload many offers at once. It is highly recommended to always use the CSV template while importing offers in bulk.

5. Save the Voluum CSV template locally on your machine.

Once you have got the CSV template that is suitable for the Voluum's data structure, you need to prepare your data.

1. Open the downloaded Voluum template with a CSV editor that works best for you.

2. Add entries for your new offers following basic rules listed below:

   1. One offer is represented on a separate row in the CSV file.
   2. In the file, each row must end with a line break and each column must be separated with a semicolon.

   3. Offer's properties are added according to a certain pattern delivered within the Voluum template.

      Before you start editing the CSV template, read more about the Voluum's data structure and how the offers should be added to the CSV file:

      Bulk Import: A CSV File with New Offers

      Each row in the CSV file might contain the listed pieces of information for one offer. Note that only certain pieces of information are required and they are associated with the required fields in the offer's form in Voluum. Other properties might remain blank.

      Offer's name: {your_unique_custom_name} ; # Property required

      Offer's URL: {your_offer_URL} ;  # Property required

      Country: {two-letter_country_code} ; # Property optional; if blank, the Global value is set

      Affiliate network: {affiliate_network_ID_specific_for_Voluum} ; # Property optional; if applied, the affiliate network entity must exist in Voluum before uploading the CSV file

      Payout: {payout_value} ;# Property optional; if blank, the Auto value is set

      Tags: {tags_separated_by_spaces} ; # Property optional

      Conversion cap enabled: {blank/true/false} ;

      # If blank, all below properties should be left blank; conversion cap will be turned off

      # If true, all below properties are required and conversion cap will be enabled

      # If false, all below properties are required, but conversion cap will be disabled

      Daily cap: {daily_limit_of_conversions} ;

      Time zone: {time-zone_code_acceptable_by_Voluum} ;

      Redirect offer: {your_redirect_offer_ID} ;

      Offer workspace ID: {your_offer_workspace_ID} ; Property required, if the workspace feature enabled. Leave it blank if you want to add to the public workspace or feature is not active

3. Save the CSV files with all new offers locally on your machine. The file must be properly formatted and saved using UTF-8 character encoding.

When you have finished adding the offers to the CSV file, you only need to upload it to the Voluum platform.

To upload the file, you need to go back to the bulk import form for offers and select the CSV file:

1. Sign in to Voluum.
2. Go to the Offers. The Offers view will show up.
3. Click the Export/Import > Import new offers drop-down button. The Import new offers form will show up.
4. Click the Start importing button in the form (bottom right screen). The file upload screen will show up.
5. Select the prepared CSV file and upload it to Voluum.

6. Wait until the CSV file will upload to Voluum. If any data is provided inaccurately, a list of errors will get displayed in the bulk import form. You will also find tips how to correct rows with the offers in the file to make it work properly.

   

7. Once the CSV file is uploaded to the Voluum platform, click the Import button (bottom right screen). You should see the message that the process of importing offers in bulk has finished successfully. All offers should be added to Voluum and displayed in the Offers view.
8. Click the Close button in the Import new offers form. You have successfully added the offers to the Voluum platform.