Description
Altrix Merchant Feed Readiness for WooCommerce helps store administrators review core product data commonly needed by shopping feeds without automatically editing WooCommerce products.
The Free Edition reviews published parent products for:
- Missing product title – blocking issue
- Missing description – blocking issue
- Missing effective price – blocking issue
- Missing featured image – blocking issue
- Title longer than 150 characters – blocking issue
- Description longer than 5,000 characters – blocking issue
- Missing SKU – warning (a feed tool may use another stable product ID)
- Short-description-only fallback – warning
It also includes:
- Sequential AJAX batch scanning
- One automatic retry after a temporary batch failure
- 30-second request timeout
- Product-catalog consistency guard during a scan
- Search by product, SKU, type, or ID
- Status and issue filters
- Browser-side result pagination
- WooCommerce HPOS compatibility declaration
- WordPress, WooCommerce, and PHP compatibility information
The scanner is read-only. It does not automatically modify products, create custom database tables, or send store data to Altrix Web or another external service.
This plugin provides readiness indicators only. Merchant Center acceptance can depend on your feed plugin or API mapping, product category, target country, account settings, landing pages, and policy changes.
A separate commercial Pro edition from Altrix Web adds variation-level feed items, configurable Brand/GTIN/MPN mapping, GTIN validation, image-dimension checks, sale-price checks, stock/backorder warnings, and CSV exports. The Pro code is not included or locked inside this Free plugin.
Google and Merchant Center are trademarks of Google LLC. This plugin is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.
Source Code
The complete human-readable source code is included in this plugin package. The PHP, JavaScript, and CSS files are used directly as distributed; there is no transpilation, bundling, minification, or external build step required to produce the plugin.
Development and product information: https://altrixweb.com/altrix-merchant-feed-readiness/
Privacy
The plugin reads WooCommerce product data needed for the readiness report. It does not create custom database tables, transmit store data to Altrix Web, or persist completed scan results after the current browser page is reloaded.
Installation
- Install and activate WooCommerce.
- Install and activate Altrix Merchant Feed Readiness for WooCommerce.
- Go to WooCommerce > Feed Readiness.
- Choose a batch size. 100 is recommended for most stores.
- Click Start Scan.
- Review the summary and result table.
- Use Edit Product to make corrections manually in WooCommerce.
- Run a fresh scan after corrections.
FAQ
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Does this plugin submit products to Google Merchant Center?
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No. It is an independent read-only readiness auditor. It does not create or submit a feed and does not connect to a Merchant Center account.
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Does the scanner edit WooCommerce products?
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No. Scanning is read-only. The Edit Product button opens the normal WooCommerce editor where any changes are made manually by an authorized administrator.
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Why is a missing SKU only a warning?
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Merchant product data requires a stable ID, but a feed tool can use a WooCommerce product ID or another mapped value. A missing SKU should be reviewed, but it is not automatically treated as a feed blocker by this plugin.
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Does the Free Edition scan every variation as a separate feed item?
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No. The Free Edition audits parent products. The separate Pro edition expands variable products to variation-level feed items and adds advanced identifier checks.
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Does the plugin send store data to Altrix Web?
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No. The scanner does not use an Altrix Web external scanning service.
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Contributors & Developers
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Changelog
1.0.0
- First free release.
- Added parent-product readiness checks for title, description, price, image, SKU, and text-length conditions.
- Added safe sequential batch scanning, retry/timeout handling, catalog consistency protection, search, filters, and pagination.