When an Awin merchant has a banner but no usable feed

Some affiliate programmes offer banners, text links, or seasonal creative before they offer a usable product feed. That can still be useful for readers, but it belongs in The Edit, not in the product grid.

The rule is simple: no item-level feed, no item-level claim. We can write a store note about what to inspect, which category the merchant belongs to, and what the reader should verify before checkout. We cannot invent prices, stock, product rankings, discounts, or scarcity from a banner.

When the feed arrives, the merchant can move into the comparison workflow. Until then, banner-only material stays editorial and clearly disclosed.