Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[RescoCCC]

Hi there

Bit new here around this area of knowledge ...!

But wanted to know if anybody knows answer to my problem here.?

I recently had Installed the google froogle into my zen cart

And had these 3 attribute problems show one after an other after my ftp upload to google merchant center

Missing recommended attribute: mpn (282 warnings)

Missing recommended attribute: google product category (282 warnings)

Missing recommended attribute: brand (229 warnings)

Now I know this last one brand I forgot to add the product manufactor for all my listings. Thats no problem But
these other two attributes I have not being managed to locate them or how to add them or turn them on at my feeder config.?!


Thank you for your time.

Your question is answered multiple times in this thread.

[spid3r1987]

anyone know how to stop it timing out after so long and missing 90% of my products off??

[kitcorsa]

My items are now showing on google :-)

they are also now showing the postage cost underneath which is great.... however the postage cost is inoccrect and is missing the VAT ie my postage cost might be £2.50 but google is showing the price as £2.08 which is 20% less. I have the setting in the config:

Display Tax false (as it says us only)
Tax Country UK
Tax Region CLEVE
Tax Rate 20.00
Tax on Shipping y

[spid3r1987]

anyone know how to stop it timing out after so long and missing 90% of my products off??

nvm, sorted it :)

[spid3r1987]

My items are now showing on google :-)

they are also now showing the postage cost underneath which is great.... however the postage cost is inoccrect and is missing the VAT ie my postage cost might be £2.50 but google is showing the price as £2.08 which is 20% less. I have the setting in the config:

Display Tax false (as it says us only)
Tax Country UK
Tax Region CLEVE
Tax Rate 20.00
Tax on Shipping y

try changing it to TRUE on display tax(even tho it says us only)
then redo file and upload...think this might work :)

[mybiz9999]

It's very kind of you,and your reply helps me much!!
thank you

You must enter the unique product identifiers on the product setup page. If you don't, the feed cannot populate those attributes. Two out of three are required. The categories are brand, (same as products manufacturer), MPN, (same as product model), and GITN, which includes stuff like UPC, ISBN, etc.

For Google Product Category you must select the appropriate category from the Google Taxonomy and enter the information in the Google Merchant Center Feeder Configuration on the line that reads Default Product Category.

For example, one of my sites is collectibles so I used the Google Taxonomy of Arts & Entertainment > Collectibles. The entry on that line is done as Arts & Entertainment > Collectibles.

[sash]

Does anyone know if there is another update coming out soon,,
Im totally out my depth trying to get this to work, and have zero products displayed anywhere in google,

[Xbox Memberships]

Ok so i think i made some progress using the 3 supplied snippets of code from 3249 to removethe old google feeder and i now have just the one set of configurations however it shows as making the feed domain_products_en.xml and so now google has emailed me to say my feed does not match the filename it should and also for some reason it has only generated 351 out of 355 items processed when last night it successfully processed all 376 of my items?? any ideas?

[delia]

Does anyone know if there is another update coming out soon,,
Im totally out my depth trying to get this to work, and have zero products displayed anywhere in google,

Another update won't help you if you can't figure out what's going on now. Too many variables.

[delia]

I just discovered something I hadn't run into before and hadn't seen posted here.

If you have the stock by attributes mod installed, it will export your variants to the feed.

However, since it was set up for Numinix's upcoming new stock by attributes, it does not work as it needs to and can/will get your products invalidated.

So if you have it installed, you are going to have to edit the googlefroogle.php file in the root.

Comment out this line by adding the // in front of it.

if (defined('TABLE_PRODUCTS_WITH_ATTRIBUTES_STOCK')) $stock_attributes = true;