Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

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Seriously, they did a great job, very quickly and saved me much more than $25 of my time fiddling around with it; fplus irst Google merchant generated order within 24 hrs of the install made me over $50

Peter

Hi Folks:
using GBF 1.8.3 is it necessary still to make the changes as noted in 1902 et al of this thread?
Thanx
Rufusclc

I am having a problem with my Xml feed; the base feeder report on making the xml reflects that all products are valid, I have checked for the funny A and corrected them, plus for & etc.
I load the a file to Google of about 4,000 products and they consistently reflect about 50 products but indicate that the file is good.
I ran a validation report of the first 500 products to-day:
the text on the screen from the file looks like a foreign language and I get the following feedback:
XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:0: not well-formed (invalid token) [
Please can any-one help me - even IM me and correct this professionaly for me?
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Rufus in Del Mar CA

Hello All, I installed Google Base Feeder... When I click to create the feed the window pops up and it starts creating the feed after about 6 minutes it stops and loads the page not found page.. I looked at the xml file and it started creating the file but never finished.. Any ideas of what might be going on.. Thanks for all your input..

Using ZenCart v1.3.9f

For some reason only the Google Base Feeder Configuration will show up after installation, I can not get the Google Base Feeder to show up under Tools. Anyone have an idea of what could be causing this.

I uninstalled the SQLpatch and Reinstalled, I re-uploaded the google_base_feeder files, the feed directory is 777, I also went ahead and tried making the whole google_base_feeder directory 777 as well.

I have installed this on another store that is similar and it works perfect.

serovectra:

Using ZenCart v1.3.9f

For some reason only the Google Base Feeder Configuration will show up after installation, I can not get the Google Base Feeder to show up under Tools. Anyone have an idea of what could be causing this.

I uninstalled the SQLpatch and Reinstalled, I re-uploaded the google_base_feeder files, the feed directory is 777, I also went ahead and tried making the whole google_base_feeder directory 777 as well.

I have installed this on another store that is similar and it works perfect.

Nevermind I'm an idiot.

I've been using this mod for a long time and it's fantastic. However, I could use some help with something now.

I've started to create custom products for individual customers and I keep them hidden inside a hidden catgory (hidden in the sense it's switched off with a red box). Now, the products inside this category are active and can be viewed with the relevant URL. The products contain some personal info (like peoples names) and they're tailoerd products, customer specific. I have no desire for them to be published to Google Products.

So, every time I have to generate a product feed, I need to deactivate every one of these custom products manually, so they don't end up on Google Base. Then re-activate them when I'm done. Surely there's a way to tell this mod to ignore certain categories and the products within?

Can anyone offer advice here?

limelites:

I've been using this mod for a long time and it's fantastic. However, I could use some help with something now.

Can anyone offer advice here?

In the GBF admin, it's under 'Excluded Categories' - enter the category number of the ones you don't want it to create for. Works like a charm.

Now if only I could get a mod to substitute our custom category names for google approved category's... :shocking:

Yikes, how come I never even noticed that before!! Thanks Fez-o Joe.

Last question on the matter, if I have a category URL like main_page=index&cPath=1_350 Do I just enter 350 or do I enter 1_350 ?

limelites:

Yikes, how come I never even noticed that before!! Thanks Fez-o Joe.

Last question on the matter, if I have a category URL like main_page=index&cPath=1_350 Do I just enter 350 or do I enter 1_350 ?

It's the Category ID - when you're looking under your Catalog/Products, it'd be the number next to the folder - not the actual product number.

So if you have it as 1_350_250 (item number is 250) - then yes, just the 1_350 - as far as I know.

Yes, thank you. I did a few trial runs and all you have to enter is the single integer category ID. Im my case 350

If only it was this easy to make the same adjustment to the XML sitemap mod :)

Hi there,

Price-wise things were fine before I changed the sole tax rate I use (UK VAT) from 17.5% to the new 20% rate. All the products were updated fine in Zen Cart but the feed is still showing the old (inclusive) prices.

I find this a bit strange - any ideas on how to fix (before Google ban me for an incorrect feed!)?

Also, on a separate issue - I could never get the expiration date to be 30 days ahead so I gave up on automatic upload. I've been changing them myself with search&replace before manually uploading. For some reason the feed now stays at 2010/12/01
My relevant settings are: 30 for expiration date adjust and 'now' for expiration date base.
Is this correct?

Thanks ever so for any help offered.
Nick

serovectra:

Using ZenCart v1.3.9f

For some reason only the Google Base Feeder Configuration will show up after installation, I can not get the Google Base Feeder to show up under Tools. Anyone have an idea of what could be causing this.

I uninstalled the SQLpatch and Reinstalled, I re-uploaded the google_base_feeder files, the feed directory is 777, I also went ahead and tried making the whole google_base_feeder directory 777 as well.

I have installed this on another store that is similar and it works perfect.

serovectra:

Nevermind I'm an idiot.

Soooo... apparently Im an idiot too because Im having the same issue. Wish he would have posted what his idiotic mistake was! lol Anyone seen this before? Installed the sql patch twice just to be sure but I cant get googlefroogle to show up in Tools.

jviera1298:

Soooo... apparently Im an idiot too because Im having the same issue. Wish he would have posted what his idiotic mistake was! lol Anyone seen this before? Installed the sql patch twice just to be sure but I cant get googlefroogle to show up in Tools.
Check and make sure you have renamed the admin folder to match the custom folder you are using, if not it will not find the folder.

I have just uploaded by .xml file thru this wonderful mod - I have noticed that I have 860 products and only 816 were on my feed.

anyone have any ideas why?

I do know that some of the items are out of stock - could it be that they are not included because they are out of stock?

https://www.stitchnframeonline.com

TY any comments would be appriciated! TIA

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stitchnkitty:

I have just uploaded by .xml file thru this wonderful mod - I have noticed that I have 860 products and only 816 were on my feed.

anyone have any ideas why?

I do know that some of the items are out of stock - could it be that they are not included because they are out of stock?

www.stitchnframeonline.com

TY any comments would be appriciated! TIA
If you have products out of stock it will not show on the.xml feed unless you set it to true in admin/configurations google_base_feeder_configuration Include Zero Quantity set it to true if you want to include them.

fantastic! did that but it generated 840 - which is great but my admin home says I have 860

TIA

Hello all! I've search all over but can't figure this out...

I am at this point in the install:

6. Register your bulk upload .xml file using the same name in your Google Merchant Center Configuration at base.google.com

7. Go to Admin->Tools>Google Merchant Center Feeder and follow instructions to create, view, and upload feed file.

My questions are:

#6 - Bulk upload .xml file - where do I get this?
#7 - When I look at Admin -> Tools I don't see Google Merchant Center Feeder.

Do I need to reinstall? If so, what's the best way to do that? I have backups of my site if I need to delete and reinstall. Thanks.

Dominick

Same problem, I have 1100 products, only about 150 show up in the feed.