kandap

Hi- This is working for me! I only have one product with variations so I went into the product edit screen -> variations screen and made sure the pull down menus had the correct value for each custom product attribute per each variation. It’s populating the feed fine now for each variation.

Only one issue, the feed is showing the Product Title as Product Name Color Color Color Color. (Our variable for the one product is a color choice between black and beige). I’ll send a debug file in email.

Thanks Joris!! Getting so close!

Karen

I think I am using g:item_group_id incorrectly right now. I had it mapped to Product ID so I could use Product ID to filter out products (see the other post). I didn’t really think about the one product variation at the time I was doing the attribute mapping. I’d like to get the other issue resolved (feedsku) and then I will figure out how to set up variations correctly.

Thanks,
Karen

Hi-

Google suggests mapping g:id to SKU where possible. https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7052112
Our PPC team likes to use SKU rather than mapping g:id to the product ID because SKU is descriptive and keyword rich.

Sometimes in our industry, Google will disapprove a product and our Google support tells us that in certain cases the only way to get around it is to create a new sku. That’s why we need feedsku. It’s easier than changing the actual sku of the product in the backend of store.

I can change g:mpn to map to Product ID instead of UPC. Then I can filter on Product ID to remove products.

Net, if I use g:id mapped to feedsku and g:mpn to product ID, will it work?

Thanks,
Karen

Thanks! The debug I sent to support@adtribes on 1/11/18 is the latest. I sent it for the other open thread but nothing has changed.

Regards,
Karen

I think maybe we are having the same problem where product variations will not pick up the custom fields added in the product attributes section? https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/product-variations-and-product-attributes/

Regards,
Karen

Good point! I meant to do that and forgot.:-) I have sent the link to the support email along with some screenshots of configs.

Thanks!
Karen

Ok, we have changed feed_sku to feedsku and the feed now properly populates g:id with feedsku. We also have g:item_group_id mapped to Product Id. The filter to exclude products is no longer working correctly since we changed from when we had g:id populated with SKU. No matter what field I choose under the IF column to identify which product to exclude, it is leaving this placeholder in the feed:
<item>
<g:google_product_category/>
</item>
How can I remove those?

Great. I will share.

My PPC team will be very happy to hear this. Granularity in mapping is one of the keys to performance for shopping campaigns. I will upgrade one of our stores today and try it out. Thanks!

Thanks, I didn’t see a response but one of my email addresses had a server hiccup that same week.

Right now I am using a manual feed that is copied from the plugin generated feed and overwritten in some spots for better google category fit. We have a second site so I think I will try revision 1.7.5 on it. I will check back in periodically to see what the schedule looks like.

Thanks again for excellent plugin and support.

Hi Joris-

Can you comment on above items? Non-binding of course ?? – I just would like some thoughts.

Thanks,
Karen

Hi Joris-

As per our email discussion, I would like to see product mapping put back into the feature set under category mapping. Unless a store has categories that are super granular, we need this to be able to override a category mapping for a particular product. I work closely with our PPC team and they have run tests that document improved performance to the shopping campaign when each product in the feed has the best fit to a Google shopping category.

Thanks,
Karen

Hi Joris-

Thanks for the reply and I’m relieved to hear it will be back. I have two choices right now – I can create a manual feed (using the adtribes plug in as the source to copy from) temporarily while waiting for the plug in to update with product mapping in it or I can install a back rev. My concern with using the old rev of the plugin is how the update to a future plugin rev would work. Can you take an educated guess at two things to help me decide:
1) would the product mappings I create in an older plugin stay in place when I update to the future plugin that has product mapping back in or would the work be lost?
2) how long before you think product mapping will come back in to the plugin?

Thanks!
Karen

Hi – Yes project is still running. I sent you the debug file in email.
Regards,
Karen

Ok, per the support response:
First, you have to map the categories. Done.
After that, you can replace categories for certain products by product id using product filtering functionality.

I don’t see how to do this. The filtering doesn’t have if/then capability. How do I construct this example:

IF g:id = 4908 THEN g:google_product_category = Health & Beauty > Health Care > Fitness & Nutrition > Vitamins & Supplements

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