Why do you use insecure FTP instead of SFTP to upload the feeds?

We primarily use FTP uploads because most shopping engines only support FTP at this time. Furthermore, the data that is in the feed files is data that is publicly available from your product pages, so it is not private or proprietary information. The information does not need to be secure or encrypted.

We fully support SFTP (FTP via SSH), along with other upload methods such as FTP over SSL (FTP/S) and Amazon S3. These can be enabled upon requests.

Google Merchant Center now requires SFTP uploads, so that is enabled by default on all Google Feed Templates.