Google & YouTube

Hi - I was able to find your original ticket in our system and will reply with more information there.

For others who are running into the scenario where you want to connect a subaccount to the Google & YouTube App, but are already an admin on the MCA account, you won't see the subaccounts in the dropdown. Simply email us at the link below (or through Contact Support on the app itself) and ask us to "Link your Subaccount to the Google & YouTube App". Include your MCA ID and your Merchant Center ID that isn't showing up in the dropdown on the app onboarding, and as long as you are an Admin on the MCA, we'll be able to connect that for you, often in as little as 48 hours from submission of the ticket.

If you are an admin on the MCA, but want to link a subaccount to the Google & YouTube App, you don't need to move your Admin email down to the subaccount since you'd lose access to your MCA in that case, and we can solve this for you

https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/shopify_3p_support_app

Hello - we will utilize Shopify's Global ID format on product exporting, since they give a unique product and variant ID for EVERY product in your database, and it will be unique across the entire ecosystem. Since "SKU" field in Shopify is not required, and can be duplicated, it would cause issues in Google if we tried to use that as our unique identifier on products, since some products would be missing it, and others would be duplicated.

If you need SKU to persist into Google, we'd recommend adding those values to the Google MPN field in Shopify > Products > Metafields > Google MPN. This would let you see this field in Google Merchant Center by adding the MPN Column in the all products view.

Here is a handy bulk editor link to use:
https://admin.shopify.com/store/_______your_store_name_without_the_myshopifycom_part______/bulk/product_variant?resource_name=ProductVariant&edit=sku%2Cmetafields.mm-google-shopping.mpn

Hi - unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be a problem with the app. We are properly syncing all of your products across your India market, and all Data and attributes are coming through, as well as domain claiming and shop settings all syncing as expected. Since you are reviewing the app, and the app is working in all aspects, I'm not able to address your lack of sales, but it is not due to any issues or failures of the app syncing. My only suggestion would be to follow the recommendations in Merchant Center to increase your store quality rating. It does say you could add Return Costs to your store, since you're missing that value. The app syncs your Shipping Settings but it does not sync your return policy from Shopify, so right now you have a 0-day return window and no defined return costs. You should probably add your return policy to Merchant Center where it says "Set Up Your Return Service" in red.

You could also look into running ad campaigns, but that is not my area of expertise. If you do notice an issue with the app please use the Contact Support link in the app navigation to send us a ticket, but there doesn't seem to be any bugs that I can fix for you right now.

Hi - you'll see ZZ_ product IDs as "multiple country" products. Instead of creating a new product ID for each country/market in Shopify, we will simplify and save them as a single ZZ_ ID. You're seeing these now because your old IDs were only targeted to a single country, but now we've upgraded you to multiple-market offers and these new ZZ item IDs are actually now targeting all 18 markets you have configured.
This is expected and actually expands the reach of your products to many more markets than before. Earlier, you were only showing in German only. Now you're visible in all 18 countries in both English and local languages whereas before you were missing all the English-targeted ads customers.

In summary, the ZZ prefix contains all your country and language combinations within it, and the app will keep these products sync'd now. I see that you installed another plugin to keep updating the old product IDs -- this will result in both sets of products being updated even though all your DE products are already contained within the ZZ products subset. So right now you have:
-Google App updating all 900+ products for all 18 countries in all available languages
- The plug-in updating all 900+ products in 18 countries for German only

To see this, click into Merchant Center and search for your product 12014565597_42809152536797 then modify columns to see Countries and Langauges, and you'll see the old DE_ product ID in German only with an unoptimized title, but the additional ZZ products for all the countries and all the languages, and with our optimized titles.

Hi, sorry this makes the app unusable for you. We decided to make the availability "In Stock" when you click "Continue selling when out of stock" because on your Shopify website, this shows up as purchasable to customers. This behavior ensures what we show on Google matches the purchase behavior website. Not all websites show Backorder status as able to add to cart like you can set up on your store, and other stores may set it up that this backorder status simply shows as In Stock to a customer, so in those cases, us setting the status as Backorder and not In Stock could cause confusion for a customer clicking through the product but not able to check out, as well as negative experiences on ad campaigns.
Basically, a merchant on Shopify settings "Continue to Sell" may mean the product is "In Stock", or "Backordered but Add to Cart" and we don't know. So we chose to go with the safest situation of "It's buyable, click this product" which ends up being In Stock in our database.

If you could contact our support team, I'd like to understand the implications of this a bit more. It obviously seems important to you so I'd like to determine how important it is what we start including "Backorder" instead of in Stock when quantity is 0 but "continue to Sell" is selected.

Hi, sorry for the frustration. It looks like your website was flagged as being parked but 45 minutes later the flag was removed and you're live with no account issues.

Hi - sorry for the confusion. We'll update our Help Center to better highlight you should select Manual Product Sync during onboarding if you don't want products to sync right away.

In the meantime, if you go to the Products Page in Shopify, and can filter by freight products, the 3 dot menu next to Set As Draft lets you "Exclude from Sales Channels" in bulk. If you have a way to find all of your products (I.e "timpani" in the title, or Type or Tag), then you can quickly exclude from Sales Channel. Since these products aren't able to be checked out on your website or on Google, they'd have to be excluded completely, since even adding a Freight shipping settings would not apply.

Additionally, you are syncing Shipping Settings from Shopify automatically as well. This means whatever shipping you set up in Merchant Center manually will get overwritten by the Shipping data in Shopify > Settings > Shipping and Delivery > General Shipping Profile. I'm assuming you'll want to change the Shipping Sync to Manual in order to keep your UPS Ground settings in Merchant Center, since you don't have any General Shipping Rates set up for your market. With an automatic shipping sync, we are getting no shipping rates synced to Merchant Center, which will keep wiping out your manually set shipping settings in Merchant Center.

This will ensure that A) Freight Items are excluded from the Google & YouTube App (you'll need to turn Product Sync back to Automatic to make these changes occur) and B) Shipping settings in Merchant Center don't get wiped out since you're missing General Shipping Rates in Shopify today