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osCommerce Elm@r Electronic Market Data Feed is an osCommerce contribution which assures the easiest export of your products into Elm@r - one of the best Pay-Per-Click service. Elm@r - the Electronic Market is a reference implementation for the shopinfo.xml standard. This site provides information for online shops which want to support and implement the standard. It also offers an HTML form for creating individual shop files shopinfo.xml. You will be able to upload new file at any time from your Control panel with one mouse click! Consumers are looking for online-shops offering the products they want to buy. Conventional search engines are no great help by returning thousands of alleged hits, whereof most of them do not help the customer in finding the corresponding shop. Customers are in need of a search mechanism capable of finding shops offering the desired products. The required information should be presented as a list of results, so that providers can be chosen by directly evaluating information about prices, shipping costs, availability, methods of payment, and so on. Online shops profit from this search mechanism by getting access to additional customers. In order to have correct and up to date data about the shop and the offered products, the online shops provide these data. Currently, there is no standardized procedure for exchanging this information resulting in very little cooperation between online shops and product search engines. Elm@r developed a concept for providing data of online shops for all or specific services. The effort for supplying data is very little and independent from the number of services using the data. Carriers of online shops can find additional information by selecting shops from the navigation menu. This is where you can find additional information about how to join Elm@r.