To be honest, I’m really struggling to remember how this works. This was always a little dicey and then Google changed their integration so it wasn’t free anymore so there hasn’t been much usage.
As I look at this integration, it looks like we’re submitting a tab-delimited txt file. Is there supposed another column for identifier_exists that would be TRUE in most cases and FALSE in some?
Oh, also, it would appear that it’s not sending the shipping weight attribute either. I had assumed it would send the product weight as the shipping weight but there’s no attribute in the export data for weight (“shipping_weight” attribute).
These are the only attributes being sent:
“id” “item_group_id” “product_type” “title” “link” “price” “sale_price” “sale_price_effective_date” “availability” “description” “image_link” “additional_image_link” “google_product_category” “mpn” “gtin” “brand” “condition” “age_group” “gender” “color” “size” “material” “pattern”
If we aren’t getting the shipping weight, is there any way to specify the shipping cost either (“shipping” attribute)?
Perhaps I can add attributes that can be passed through Custom Fields?
Thanks!
Yeah, the export is a tab delimited file. As for cost, I don’t think there is any. Apparently there’s a Google checkout merchant service but I wouldn’t be using that… I’ve got Foxycart.
I don’t think the attribute has to be there if you have two of the three needed attributes, though I suppose it probably wouldn’t hurt if it was always there just toggled true/false. Looks like there’s also “shipping” and “shipping_weight”. I think you’d have to include them in all the records thought now that I think about it as the column count is determined by the header and if one has identifier_exists, they would all have to (whether populated or null).
I’m surprised it’s not being used much… it seems pretty awesome, just perhaps missing a bit of the data needed.
Thanks for the response!
It’s definitely not free. From Wikipedia:
Google Shopping (was Google Product Search and Froogle): price engine that searches online stores, including auctions, for products. Beginning in Fall of 2012, it will become a fully commercial product, only indexing paid listings.[4]
See http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/ads/shopping/ – are you sure this is still something you want to pursue?
Interesting. Sorry about the long delay in response… I probably won’t pursue it in that case… at least for the moment. Might be a good idea to remove the merchant stuff all together. Oh, also ran into an issue with inventory but I’ll put that in another thread.
Thanks!
Could you please send a support request via http://www.foxy-shop.com/contact/ for the inventory thing? I never get reliable notifications from the WordPress forum and email is a better way to do support anyway. Thanks!
No problem. I posted it here but I’ll post there too.
Thanks!
