Froogle Merchant Center merged into GoogleBase

[samad64]

Jason.. out of curiosity, now when you create your feed file where does the image link go to? Just the images/ directory.. or to where IH2 makes the image? Thanks :)

[brimsjewelry]

It goes to the image directory. But I noticed that IH2 doesnt work beyond second tier categories(as far as enlarging the pics in the whats new box). Is this a known issue or is it just my store?

Jason

[mali]

I would say that's quite normal - Your feed file often won't show up when you look at uploads.google.com just after submitting a feed. Then it might show up (briefly) before it's removed again for processing.

Providing your feed filename is named correctly it will have gone onto Google's system and will be awaiting processing. Give it a day or three and see what happens - especially if this is your first feed - Google will have to approve the feed.

Best not to submit any more until they email you to tell you the outcome of this feed otherwise you risk re-starting the approval process.

Just peek in your Googlebase admin area now and again - it should show up there eventually, plus they'll email you. They can be slow approving feeds sometimes - maybe due to maintenance work or updates to their system, or perhaps because they have a lot of feeds to approve.

You'll get there

Thanks for your answer Pixxi. Fingers crossed then. I've been waiting for 4 days. Will see what happen next.

[mafiasam]

one strange thing i noticed is that if you are uploading using the bulk uploads method on the google base site then the shipping field is not being accepted as generated by this mod.

it gives the following errors

Shipping field was incorrectly specified - UPS

I tried half a dozen times to correct this shipping field to live up to their specifications but nothing worked.
until...
if you FTP directly from zencart admin it accepts it fine. Anyone else have this problem?

mafiasam

[brimsjewelry]

I have just had to move my store from IXWebhosting to bluehost. Before the move the googlefroogle mod worked just fine. Now however it will not connect to the upload server and upload the feed file. I tried reinstalling it to no avail. Has anyone experienced this issue and had it resolved?

Jason

[samad64]

bluehost may have phpftp functions disabled.. may want to ask them about it

[mafiasam]

one strange thing i noticed is that if you are uploading using the bulk uploads method on the google base site then the shipping field is not being accepted as generated by this mod.

it gives the following errors
I tried half a dozen times to correct this shipping field to live up to their specifications but nothing worked.
until...
if you FTP directly from zencart admin it accepts it fine. Anyone else have this problem?

mafiasam

had to leave shipping options blank. it is not accepting any values i put in for shipping.

[samad64]

had to leave shipping options blank. it is not accepting any values i put in for shipping.

try it in this format:

USriority:7.99,CA:Global-Priority:9.99

Country:Type(nospaces)rice,Country:Typerice,etc

[mafiasam]

try it in this format:

USriority:7.99,CA:Global-Priority:9.99

Country:Type(nospaces)rice,Country:Typerice,etc

My problem is I don't have set or flat shipping rates. My shipping rates depend entirely on weight and quantity so advertising a single shipping rate for my entire catalog through the admin is not accurate and therefore deceptive.

[samad64]

My problem is I don't have set or flat shipping rates. My shipping rates depend entirely on weight and quantity so advertising a single shipping rate for my entire catalog through the admin is not accurate and therefore deceptive.

I think you can advertise it without price - not positive.. so it would look something like this:

USriority, CA:Global-Express

something like that. I put mine as the prices above but those are a little bit higher than what most people normally get charged.. reason was the same thing as yours. Didn't want to be deceptive so I figured if I put extra on Froogle and someone came to the site to purchase, they would be happy to see shipping prices were a little lower :)

Plus, a lot of people don't see the actual page for it - they click the link and it leads straight to the site