Google Merchant Center Feeder for ZC v1.5.x [Support Thread]

I have a VPS so i can alter my time out setting as I require so ill up my timeout and see what happens.

How ever when you making numberious files and then merging??? you can upload numberious files to google merchant centre you know... just need to give google the feed name. I currently export 5 xml files each with 500 product in and upload to google individually. All done via cron jobs on a night.

I do have an issue though with a product as the feed seem to fail on a product and halts but doesn't say when. Checked the product and can't see any issues with it....

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Originally Posted by kitcorsa

I have a VPS so i can alter my time out setting as I require so ill up my timeout and see what happens.

How ever when you making numberious files and then merging??? you can upload numberious files to google merchant centre you know... just need to give google the feed name. I currently export 5 xml files each with 500 product in and upload to google individually. All done via cron jobs on a night.

I do have an issue though with a product as the feed seem to fail on a product and halts but doesn't say when. Checked the product and can't see any issues with it....

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I prefer to do my uploads manually, don't know why, just do. Someone else had mentioned I could make several smaller uploads to Google just by giving them the file names. I may do that once I make sure I don't have any more data errors to overcome. If you know which product or group of products that are stopping your feed, go back and remove any html tags in the description or name field, I did that on some and they worked ok afterwards, apparently, there are some html tags that don't work well with Google I guess, no other explanation. Once I removed the tags and made the description for those items text only, they all worked.

Cant seem to generate a feed.
using zencart 1.5.1
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go to admin tools gmcf and select products, 0, 1 cofirm and it just pops up the home page. and the xml file it writes doesnt have any products???

Any ideas?

I've just discovered why my website traffic has tanked. Logging into my Google Merchant account and checking my feed status, 0 of my 40,000 products are being listed due to "expiration date is in the past" error. I am using ZenCart version 1.5.1 and Google Merchant Center Feeder 1.13.0. My Expiration Date Base is set to "now", and Expiration Date Adjust is set to "29". However downloading my feed shows an expiration date of 12/8/2013. Something isn't working properly when the feed is created. Can anyone offer a suggestion?

OK, I MAY have solved the issue. I went to Configuration/Google Merchant Center Feeder Configuration and changed Expiration Date Base to "product" and clicked "update". Then changed it back to "now" and clicked "update". Also, I changed Expiration Date Adjust to "30" and clicked "update". I then went over to Tools/Google Merchant Center Feeder and clicked "Confirm" on all my feeds to create new XML files and manually uploaded to Google. No idea which of these had any affect, but Expiration Date is no longer a field in the XML file and Google isn't kicking out any errors. Time will tell if this was a true fix or just a bandaid...

Google have just suspended my account because the feed shows prices without tax! How can I force it show prices with tax.
Im in UK and using google uk.

Anyone currently using MagneticOne's Google Data Feed plugin? I've read a few good posts and a few bad ones. Not sure which way to go, Numinix's paid version (Google Shopping feed) looks good but MagneticOne's looks like it does a lot more but the split reviews have me concerned.

anyone got this running as a cron??

For somereason i am unable to get the cron jobs to work. Cron is turned on on my server etc as i have other crons working, but unable to get the feed or upload to run as a cron.

i have thefollowing process cron

curl -s '/home/public_html/googlefroogle.php?feed=fy_un_tp&limit=500&offset=&x=47&y=15&key=***********'

and a upload later the same night

curl -s "/home/public_html/googlefroogle.php?feed=fn_uy&upload_file=google_products_en_500.xml&key=******** ***"

tryed with ' and " never make a difference, tried the PHP and other cron actions but to no joy. No error being emailed to me as a problem.... but the feed in google not showing an updated file

any thoughts??

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Originally Posted by kitcorsa

anyone got this running as a cron??

For somereason i am unable to get the cron jobs to work. Cron is turned on on my server etc as i have other crons working, but unable to get the feed or upload to run as a cron.

i have thefollowing process cron

curl -s '/home/public_html/googlefroogle.php?feed=fy_un_tp&limit=500&offset=&x=47&y=15&key=***********'

and a upload later the same night

curl -s "/home/public_html/googlefroogle.php?feed=fn_uy&upload_file=google_products_en_500.xml&key=******** ***"

tryed with ' and " never make a difference, tried the PHP and other cron actions but to no joy. No error being emailed to me as a problem.... but the feed in google not showing an updated file

any thoughts??

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Typically there is more in front of the public_html directory in a cron but you could also use the actual url instead https://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=fn_uy&upload_file=google_products_en_500.xml&key=******** ***"

Can you navigate here using your web browser? have you tried wget versus curl -s ? How does the cron for your sitemap XML compare?

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Originally Posted by RiverCity

Anyone currently using MagneticOne's Google Data Feed plugin? I've read a few good posts and a few bad ones. Not sure which way to go, Numinix's paid version (Google Shopping feed) looks good but MagneticOne's looks like it does a lot more but the split reviews have me concerned.

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The SUPPORT THREAD for this module is NOT the right place to ask opinions about a COMPETING module.. IJS..