Why You Need This Add-on

If you advertise products in Yandex Direct, you are probably familiar with the YML feed — a file that contains all your products for the advertising platform. CS-Cart can generate such a feed using the built-in “YML Export” add-on.

Since 2024, Yandex Direct requires feeds to include not only product information, but also category pages of the store. This is necessary for the new “Catalog Page Ads” format available in Unified Performance Campaigns and Product Campaigns.

Without this data:

• Some advertising formats in Yandex Direct become unavailable.
• The store loses the ability to advertise catalog sections, not just individual products.
• Yandex Direct may display warnings about an incomplete feed.

The default CS-Cart YML Export add-on does not provide this data. The Cart-Power: Collections in YML Feed add-on extends the existing feed with collection information.

What Data Will Be Added to the YML Feed

For each category, the add-on automatically takes the following data from CS-Cart:

• Category page URL
• Category images (main and additional images uploaded in the admin panel)
• Category name
• Category description — cleaned from HTML tags

No additional fields are required. The add-on uses your existing category data.

The same data block can also be used by Yandex Business, Yandex Products, 2GIS, and VK Products. In other words, one add-on covers the requirements of several advertising and marketplace platforms at once.

The add-on does not modify the settings or behavior of the standard “YML Export” add-on, does not change the database, and does not interfere with other parts of the store.

If you disable the add-on at any time, the feed will return to its default format without collections. Nothing will break.