Google & YouTube

I hate this App, i installed it and it more information from me, next it was going to ask for blood and fingerprints. The main reason i hate this app is that it put my shop items, all of them listed as OUT OF STOCK for 12 days. it will override you in stock quantity, showing on shopify you have items in stock while showing on your website out of stock. i hate this app, never really worked and you have to spend more time trying to set it up then planning a wedding. dont waste your time.

Same misrepresentation issue as another user, but no clear answer as to what specific rule my specific store was failing at. I have setup everything legititmately through my country, state, and county and properly with publishers and distributors. I don't do discounts nor special offers, so nothing to misrepresent there. Shipping is stated plainly during checkout. I don't ship internationally, so that scope is small and limited to the US. No idea what Google is on about with this misrepresentation stuff. I never ended up getting any products posted after a year of trying to figure this out. I did an appeal to which they then suspended me without providing a reason that was specific to my store. No idea.

Terrible, my GMC account was suspended for "misrepresentation". I asked over and over what they meant by that, how and what did I misrepresent about the product/s? never a clear answer, or answer that I could use to fix things. So after a few months of this nonsense setting up twice over only to be suspended again, I refused to continue trying, I refused to jump through unnecessary hoops. Nope, my time is valuable and I am not wasting it on useless endeavours. I cancelled my Google ads account in response to the nonsense they wanted to put me through. There are better platforms and channels. The overall rating of 4.5 is hard to believe.

I have had non-stop trouble with Google Merchant. I have a very long-running YT channel (16 years) and 5 major websites. I loaded every possible disclaimer, return policy, and anything else Google demanded. It worked fine for a while and then...poof. Gone. "Your Google Merchant account is suspended for TOS..." So I dig around, add more return policies etc in every website possible. It works for a few weeks and then...poof. 60+ hours wasted. I decided to terminate my Google Merchant account. What a waste of time. But wait...there's more. To top it off, Google now says my Google Ads account is suspended because my Google Merchant (GM) account is suspended. I jump through hoops to tell Google that I deleted my GM account. My Google Ads account is re-instated...for about 3 weeks. Then the bot says "Suspended..." So I do this absurd cycle for 6 freakin months. Google cannot/will not fix this. They won't tell me EXACTLY what is wrong with my GM account. So, in the end, I gave this a "Google is a horrible, negligent business 'partner'" rating. Endless emails to Google are responded with robot/AI responses. If there's a human behind it, it's impossible to tell. "Just look at our TOS and comply...." Lol. I've seen $20M businesses have their GM accounts suspended with the same problems. FYI - I run multiple businesses, YT channels, etc. and this was by far the worst experience. Hope it works better for you, YMMV, best of luck.

The Google Customer Reviews integration is extremely frustrating and appears undercooked for Shopify’s current checkout architecture.

The “Google Customer Reviews” opt-in block can be added to the Thank You page, but the block itself instructs merchants to install a “Google survey extension” — which does not appear to exist anywhere in the Shopify App Store or inside the Google & YouTube app.

The integration also appears to struggle with Merchant Center parent/child account structures. Stores using a Merchant Center MCA with sub-accounts may find that the app connects ambiguously or fails to render the correct Customer Reviews opt-in, even where the correct sub-account has Google Customer Reviews enabled.

Most concerningly, Google’s own support response was to tell us to manually install Google Customer Reviews JavaScript on Shopify’s checkout Thank You page. That is not a practical answer: Shopify’s upgraded Thank You / Order Status pages do not allow arbitrary checkout scripts, which is precisely why this app block is supposed to exist.

In short: the advertised Customer Reviews integration does not appear reliable, the instructions inside the block are unclear, and support seems to provide legacy script advice that is incompatible with modern Shopify checkout.

The Google Customer Reviews integration is extremely frustrating and appears undercooked for Shopify’s current checkout architecture.

The “Google Customer Reviews” opt-in block can be added to the Thank You page, but the block itself instructs merchants to install a “Google survey extension” — which does not appear to exist anywhere in the Shopify App Store or inside the Google & YouTube app.

The integration also appears to struggle with Merchant Center parent/child account structures. Stores using a Merchant Center MCA with sub-accounts may find that the app connects ambiguously or fails to render the correct Customer Reviews opt-in, even where the correct sub-account has Google Customer Reviews enabled.

Most concerningly, Google’s own support response was to tell us to manually install Google Customer Reviews JavaScript on Shopify’s checkout Thank You page. That is not a practical answer: Shopify’s upgraded Thank You / Order Status pages do not allow arbitrary checkout scripts, which is precisely why this app block is supposed to exist.

In short: the advertised Customer Reviews integration does not appear reliable, the instructions inside the block are unclear, and support seems to provide legacy script advice that is incompatible with modern Shopify checkout.

After getting the app connected it only added 19 items to our Google Merchant account, out of over 250. I have verified that all the items have the Google / YouTube sales channel enabled.
This plugin doesn't work and show be removed from Shopify.

The Google Customer Reviews integration is extremely frustrating and appears undercooked for Shopify’s current checkout architecture.

The “Google Customer Reviews” opt-in block can be added to the Thank You page, but the block itself instructs merchants to install a “Google survey extension” — which does not appear to exist anywhere in the Shopify App Store or inside the Google & YouTube app.

The integration also appears to struggle with Merchant Center parent/child account structures. Stores using a Merchant Center MCA with sub-accounts may find that the app connects ambiguously or fails to render the correct Customer Reviews opt-in, even where the correct sub-account has Google Customer Reviews enabled.

Most concerningly, Google’s own support response was to tell us to manually install Google Customer Reviews JavaScript on Shopify’s checkout Thank You page. That is not a practical answer: Shopify’s upgraded Thank You / Order Status pages do not allow arbitrary checkout scripts, which is precisely why this app block is supposed to exist.

In short: the advertised Customer Reviews integration does not appear reliable, the instructions inside the block are unclear, and support seems to provide legacy script advice that is incompatible with modern Shopify checkout.

Sign In and google doesn't recognise any of it. An endless loop of "passkey". Google AI is still in pre-school hopefully they'll teach it something. Reviews need to introduce negative stars!

Same problem as everyone else. Misrepresentation. They flat out refuse to help with this. While you're trying to figure out what they want repaired you break 10 more things. Congress should finally step in and take this kind of power away from these people. They are destroying small businesses while propping up multi-billion dollar companies. I encourage everyone to write and call your representatives in your state. This will not remedy itself.
And the truth is, Google gave all their power to AI and they don't know what's causing the Misrepresentation. That is why we get copy/paste answers. They have no idea what is wrong, and they refuse to offer customer support. The same support and transparency they demand from sellers. Contact your reps. Call them every day until they break up this monopoly.