Member Support Center
6.4.24 – SPINS acquires The Data Council, creating a smarter content management platform for the natural product industry. Please click HERE for the press release.
We understand you will have questions. Please know our teams are working tirelessly to be better together and we will be updating our valued members as updates occur. For now, it’s business as usual. Please check back here for updates. Thank you!
The Data Council is an image and data service provider. IX-ONE is the industry’s choice for product data and images. As the dominate platform for trusted and reliable product content, distributors, and retailers access supplier content to power their marketing, e-commerce, planogramming, merchandising, supply chain, and warehousing operations.
The IX-ONE Exchange is the single-source solution platform, where distributor and retailer partners can access to GS1 compliant supplier images, +1000 data points for each of your products – all available for easy download. Our service is a critical process to bringing standardized, verified product images and attributes to life within many systems throughout the industry. It combines comprehensive packaging information including weights, dimensions, nutritionals, certifications and attributes alongside an extensive image set needed for logistics, planogramming, e-Commerce, and marketing activities. Key industry retailers and distributors rely on IX-ONE for trusted and accurate product content, including: Whole Foods Market, Sprouts Farmers Market Fresh Thyme Market, New Seasons, The Fresh Market, UNFI, KeHE, and more.
As industry innovators, Data Council continues to advance the industry now offering enhanced product syndication with Digital Asset Management and Product Information Management solutions to more effectively handle product content. Our introduction of GS1 certified GDSN data pool services extends our reach and ability to deliver content anywhere it needs to go.
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YES – but with good reason! Our commitment to our mutual trading partners is that we will weigh, measure, image, collect and verify all product content from live retail ready product through our Professional Capture Services. The Professional Capture process will be completed at all selling levels of the product (unit, inner pack or shelf caddy, and case).
It is critical that you receive your shipping authorization from The Data Council support team and that a full retail ready master case for each item is shipped as we provide images and data for all package levels. As the leading platform for trusted and reliable product content – distributors, and retailers access supplier content to power their marketing, e-commerce, planogramming, merchandising, supply chain, and warehousing operations. Our service combines comprehensive packaging information including weights, dimensions, nutritionals, certifications and attributes alongside an extensive image set needed for supply chain logistics, planogramming, e-Commerce, and marketing activities.
Click HERE for a video on how to package for shipping to our studio to ensure professional capture.
Before you ship product to us for photography and data capture, please ensure you have submitted your order using our Product Load Resource Center. This is necessary to ensure a smooth check-in at our studio and to avoid delays.
Critical note: Please be certain you have received shipping authorization from The Data Council support team as our studio addresses are subject to change.
Remember the items you are sending in for capture are items that will represent your brand on Data Council’s IX-ONE Exchange to our mutual trade partners. Speaking to your warehouse or shipping area about the products that need to be sent and advising them that they are for pictures can also help in the capture process.
Product being sent to IX-ONE for first time capture or re-capture (if your product has changed) requires submission of a Product Load Form using 2 short steps (obtain current Load Form and once completed submit it). This is necessary to ensure a smooth check-in at our studio and to avoid capture delays or product loss for you, our valued Member. Please do not ship without receiving shipping authorization from your Data Council support.
STEP 1: Access Product Load Form Resource Center by clicking HERE. Download Product Load form using the BLUE button and find instructions for completing.
Product being sent to IX-ONE for first time capture or re-capture (if your product has changed) requires use of our official load form that is kept current and updated here: Product Load Form. This is necessary to ensure a smooth check-in at our studio and to avoid capture delays or product loss for you, our valued Member.
Once the authorized Load Form found Professional Capture Services center is submitted a follow up email with shipping authorization and detailed instructions will be sent to you. The Product Load Resource Center also contains more details with FAQ’s about completing the form as well as best shipping practices.
Click HERE for a video on how to package for shipping to our studio to ensure professional capture.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you wish to receive notifications of check-in, check-in exceptions and product capture publications (made active), please be sure you have notified us of your current contact email. These notifications come from a non-monitored system generated email box “[email protected]” – please be sure to add this address to your SAFE SENDERS list.
Product being sent to IX-ONE for first time capture or re-capture (if your product has changed) requires submission of a Product Load Form. This is necessary to ensure a smooth check-in at our studio andto avoid capture delays or product loss for you, our valued Member.
STEP 1: Obtain a authorized Product Load Form from our Product Load Resource Center.
STEP 2: Complete Load Form and submit via Product Load page for our Professional Capture Services.
Once submitted, a follow up email with shipping authorization and detailed instructions will be sent to you. The Product Load Resource Center also contains more details with FAQ’s about completing the form as well as best shipping practices. Click HERE for a video on how to package for shipping to our studio to ensure professional capture.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you wish to receive notifications of check-in, check-in exceptions and product capture publications (made active), please be sure you have notified us of your current contact email. These notifications come from a non-monitored system generated email box “[email protected]” – please be sure to add this address to your SAFE SENDERS list.
To add Exchange users to access your portfolio, please use blue Request Access button at the upper right corner of this screen.
To remove Exchange users, please click HERE to complete a Request Support.
Forgot your password? Please use the Reset Password link located HERE. You will receive an automatic system generated email from an unmonitored address [email protected] with a secure link to create a new password.
We are happy to assist! The first place you are likely to get the answers you seek is by clicking HERE to be directed to our Member Finance/Billing Resource Center.
To update any company or contact information on file, please click HERE to submit to avoid your portfolio becoming at risk of inactivation.
Or … Please call 904-512-3200 (Option 3)
Or … email us at [email protected]
Please note all non-perishable product will be donated to local food charities when the imaging and data capture processes have completed. Perishable items will be discarded. Click HERE for letter of donation.
Viewing the video link below. The informational session reviews the details of the IX-ONE Exchange Advanced Search capabilities.
Using the video link below, please review the details of the IX-ONE Exchange Image Selection process, which includes how the “cart” works. Note that this process also covers the download of your product content.
Using the filter from file feature (highlighted in the image aboe) from the home Exchange screen, you can create a file for return of products. Create a excel file with a header in cell A1 (case sensitive) of UPC12. List UPCs 1 per row under the header. The UPCs must match exact UPC as captured through IX-ONE publication process.
There can be several reasons why you are not seeing your items in the IX-ONE Exchange:
1)The missing item was marked as discontinued.
2)The missing item has been updated causing the UPC12 to be changed on your item.
3)The missing item has not yet been submitted for capture/publication.
4)The missing item may have been submitted but is not yet ACTIVE.
Please reference our Professional Capture Services support page to have your item captured. Otherwise, please see the contact button options at the bottom of this screen if assistance is still needed.
If you are a member and wish for a product to no longer be visible to your team or our mutual trade partners, you may do so within your portal profile. To access, please CLICK HERE. Once logged in, you will see the NEW! Discontinue feature visible for active published items within your portfolio. Simply follow on-screen prompts.
To update any Company portfolio (non-product related), contact and/or billing information please CLICK HERE.
Due to a previous trend in the frequency an increasing number of requests from our members to return products, we now have a comprehensive “NO RETURNS” policy with no exceptions. This means that we do not accept any return requests, regardless of the circumstances.
We appreciate your understanding and cooperation as we strive to streamline our processes and provide the best possible service to all our members. If you have any concerns or questions, feel free to reach out to our customer support team.
RIVIR is a GS1 certified Data Pool featuring state-of-the-art advanced technology, an enterprise level Product Information Management (PIM) and Data Asset Management (DAM) tool and advanced network monitoring to ensure accuracy, success, and security.
RIVIR’s PIM/DAM solution can help you manage your product information and digital assets in one place. This will help you work more efficiently and effectively with your partners. You will be able to create accurate and consistent product content for all of your channels. Using RIVIR’s PIM/DAM solution can help shorten your time-to-market and improve customer experiences.
Great question! Even though The Data Council has joined the SPINS family, we’re still in the process of fully integrating. For the time being, we’re continuing to operate separately, and your membership remains important. We’ll keep you in the loop with any updates or changes along the way!
If you were unable to find the answer to your specific concern or if you simply would prefer to speak with someone directly, please select an option below.
If you’re unable to log into IX-ONE, it could be due to our platform migration to RIVIR currently in progress. Please check your email for important information regarding the next step required. Completing the migration form is essential for regaining access to your IX-ONE portal.
Please submit your shipment information using the Member Inquiry link below and select "
Tracking information for product shipped".
The Data Council launched our new RIVIR platform and was acquired by SPINS at roughly the same time, things have become a little confusing to some of our members. We wanted to take a minute to try to clear things up a little.
We are IX-ONE! IX-ONE is our innovative industry-wide product image and content solution. While IX-ONE is an amazing tool, it isn’t a company, it’s a solution, a brand. If you accessed your IX-ONE product images and content via the internet, the platform you used was called EXCHANGE.
In 2024, we developed a new platform called RIVIR. RIVIR will replace EXCHANGE and deliver an upgraded user experience. But despite RIVIR becoming the successor to EXCHANGE, we’re still the same industry-wide product image and content solution, IX-ONE!
As mentioned, IX-ONE isn’t a company, it’s a solution, a brand. Our company’s name is The Data Council. You might see it on an invoice, on our website, or in a contract. But it’s just that – our company name.
And SPINS? SPINS acquired The Data Council in May of 2024. So, in short: SPINS owns The Data Council. IX-ONE is The Data Council’s product image and data solution. The platform used to access IX-ONE over the Web was EXCHANGE but is transitioning to RIVIR.
Hopefully this clears things up a little.