Feed operations: refresh, monitor, error handling

Day 27: Feed operations: refresh, monitor, error handling

Focus: Operations beats one-off fixes. Keep offer data fresh and detect errors early.

What you will achieve today

• Set a refresh and monitoring routine for product data.
• Know the common failure points (out-of-stock, wrong currency, broken URLs).
• Create an error log template.

Deliverables

• A weekly operations checklist.
• An error log sheet or doc created.

Step-by-step

1. List common errors: broken product URLs, wrong availability, stale price, missing identifiers, policy mismatch.
2. Create a weekly checklist to review 10 random products.
3. Set a monthly deep audit for policies and structured data.
4. Create an error log template: date, URL, issue, impact, fix owner, fixed date.
5. Run the checklist on 3 products today and log any issues.

Checklist

• Checklist is short enough to repeat.
• Error log has owners and dates.
• You sampled real products today.

Examples

Operational metric

• Good: 0 broken PDP URLs in weekly sample
• Bad: We assume URLs are fine

Common mistakes

• Creating a monitoring system you never run.
• Fixing issues but not recording them, so they return.

Done when

• Weekly checklist and error log exist.
• You logged at least one real issue or confirmed none.

Next: Tomorrow you will consider merchant programs and eligibility signals that affect trust.