Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

buildingblocks:

posts are in numeric order. go back a few pages until you find it

Thanks!

sooner or later (I believe) we will be required to submit all products to the appropriate category. This confirms it to me:

http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?answer=160081

buildingblocks:

sooner or later (I believe) we will be required to submit all products to the appropriate category. This confirms it to me:

http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?answer=160081

I have feeds that include products from the currently required Google Product Categories and I'm using only a single overall category from the taxonomy. The feeds are working fine, with no errors for the Google Product Category attribute.

What the future holds? Who knows. You may be right that we'll arrive at a point that the feed will be required to drill down further, but my hunch is that's quite a ways off.

simon1066:

3. admin>configuration>Google Merchant Center Feeder Configuration>Default Product Category

(2/3rds of the way down the configuration page, above 'Display Tax')

Thanks for your help.

I have another problem:

When I want to set up shipping rate, I want to edit "Shipping Country", however, the right column part cannot show out.

In previous ver., it will show out a drop down menu to select different countries.

I see some of you talking a newer ver. of the Google Base Feeder.
The most updated Version is not 1.10.2 ?
Where can I get 1.11 ?

Thanks

pe1234ter:

Thanks for your help.

I have another problem:

When I want to set up shipping rate, I want to edit "Shipping Country", however, the right column part cannot show out.

In previous ver., it will show out a drop down menu to select different countries.

I see some of you talking a newer ver. of the Google Base Feeder.
The most updated Version is not 1.10.2 ?
Where can I get 1.11 ?

Thanks

The lastest version is on Numinix's web site, but there are reports of issues with versions past 1.10.2.

RescoCCC:

The lastest version is on Numinix's web site, but there are reports of issues with versions past 1.10.2.

Thanks, I will try to install the newest ver. and see some of my problem can be fixed or not.

Just a note before you do that. I left shipping country blank on my feeds and they work fine. I don't think that setting matters since we setup the country in our Google Merchant Center settings on Google's site.

It's creating feed with file name "domain_products_en_500_1.xml"
I want the file name as set up in the Configuration file.
What am I doing wrong.
Also anybody got a screenshot of what the new feeds should contain.

I re-installed the new version, the settings in the configuration were not changed even after adding the new install.sql file.

Help appreciated.

Problem with my first site: Availability attribute not being created in feed.

RescoCCC:

I have include zero quantity set to false, show quantity set to true, and 0 in default quantity. My feeds produce the availability attribute.

I need to have the zero quantity set to true, as many of our items are available in unlimited quantities, and therefore haven't got a quantity specified on their product pages. Even without it, though, I can't seem to get my feed to product the availability attribute.

Can anyone direct me to the function in the code where this attribute is created? Then maybe I can check to see if my files are correct?

In the meantime, I'm manually adding the availability attribute to all products in the xml file...

Problem with second site: near-empty feed. I again upgraded my Google Merchant Center feed, but when I go to create the feed, it seems to stop after the store info and doesn't include the actual products in the feed.

The pop-up window ends with the line, "Processing: Feed - Yes, Upload - No", rather than the "Google Merchant Center File Complete In 71.367635 Seconds 2,987 of 2,987 Records" line that it should end with.

Ideas? I'm at a loss for where to start looking to fix this, and would love my feeds to be updated and working like they were.

Thanks in advance.

buildingblocks:

Hi Shedder

I need to break up my feed to go into different categories. Post #3091 briefly states how I do it.

For upc/isbn fields there is a mod you need to add.

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=651

I haven't used that one myself.

I like the one provided on numinix site. That mod has a few other optional features and it allows you to display the isbn, upc in the product listing.

Thanks, will give that a go.

RescoCCC:

No, you don't need 1.3.9h. I have one site that's still running 1.38, (yeah, I know, I should upgrade), and the module works fine. BUT, you do need the Numinix Product Fields mod installed.

Yes, only one Google Product Category. Just select the most suitable from the Google taxonomy and you'll be fine. No need to manually edit the file.

Can't quite face the upgrade myself yet, reading the upgrade instructions it clearly isn't a simple process!

The Google Product Categories - do Google penalise you if there are products wrongly categorised? If you sell products that fit different categories it does sound like running this multiple times with different default categories set then doing a cut/paste job for the finished article might be safest.

RescoCCC:

No, you don't need 1.3.9h. I have one site that's still running 1.38, (yeah, I know, I should upgrade), and the module works fine. BUT, you do need the Numinix Product Fields mod installed.

Just tried this.

1. Added the Numinix Product Fields mod (added only upc_isbn from the optional fields).

2. Turned 'UPC/ISBN/EAN' to true in the Merchant Center Feeder config.

3. Opened the first product and added the word "test" into the new UPC, ISBN, EAN & ASIN fields, and saved it (already have "test" in the 'Products model' field).

4. Ran the feeder

The result has only the following within the output...
<g:mpn>test</g:mpn>
<g:upc>test</g:upc>

Reading Google's requirements, they need 2 out of <g:brand>, <g:gtin> and <g:mpn>. I'm only ticking one of the boxes so far. Do they accept <g:upc> instead of <g:gtin>?

is it possible to use the updated file on an older version of Zencart.
I currently run version 1.3.8 and dont want to upgrade to 1.3.9 unitl after christmas.

Shedder:

Just tried this.

1. Added the Numinix Product Fields mod (added only upc_isbn from the optional fields).

2. Turned 'UPC/ISBN/EAN' to true in the Merchant Center Feeder config.

3. Opened the first product and added the word "test" into the new UPC, ISBN, EAN & ASIN fields, and saved it (already have "test" in the 'Products model' field).

4. Ran the feeder

The result has only the following within the output...
<g:mpn>test</g:mpn>
<g:upc>test</g:upc>

Reading Google's requirements, they need 2 out of <g:brand>, <g:gtin> and <g:mpn>. I'm only ticking one of the boxes so far. Do they accept <g:upc> instead of <g:gtin>?

I can say that my provided isbn numbers shows up in the gtin field in my google merchant account when viewing a product containing an isbn. You may find that your upc number also falls in the gtin field.

I sell mostly vintage and did get an exemption from google but I provide required info when it's available. I have a couple of books that have both a upc and isbn. I tried to provide both numbers but the feeder would only include the upc if both fields were filled in. That's how it works. So if you try to provide both numbers you know what to expect.

Reading Google's requirements, they need 2 out of <g:brand>, <g:gtin> and <g:mpn>. I'm only ticking one of the boxes so far. Do they accept <g:upc> instead of <g:gtin>?

UPC is a GTIN attribute. GTIN is an overall category that includes UPC, ISBN, and some others.

CandleMan:

is it possible to use the updated file on an older version of Zencart.
I currently run version 1.3.8 and dont want to upgrade to 1.3.9 unitl after christmas.

Version 1.10.2 of the Google Merchant Center feed works fine on Zen 1.3.8.

I sell mostly vintage and did get an exemption from google but I provide required info when it's available.

Ditto for me on one of my sites.

Arghhh Am I sorry I upgraded.

I am running Zen 1.3.9h. I Just upgraded to the most recent version of Google Base Updater. I went through all the steps provided including changing over to UTF-8. Out of 13000 products, only 1400 of them loaded and half of those loaded with errors. Googlebase came back and said the XML was all screwed up. Boy am I sorry I even did this.

Did anyone else have this same issue? Any solution thoughts?

You have some encoding errors that are truncating the feed. Look for products that have odd characters in titles, descriptions, or image file names.

Thanks for the path forward.

It seems to be not liking things like bullets and copyright symbols, which i have to have to appease some of our manufacturers.

Could this be causing these issues?

This is the first error that shows in GoogleBase

Error parsing/validating XML feed Our system encountered an error when processing your XML data feed. Please see the following Help Center topics for more information:

XML tag mismatch

Invalid RSS/Atom document format