Starting in late August 2010, we are making some changes to how your products in the Electronics, Books, and Media categories may appear on Google Product Search. In order to provide as much information as possible to our users, we need your help in matching your products to our “product pages” where users are able to view useful data such as product specifications or reviews. If you are submitting products in the above categories for the US version of Google Product Search, please start including unique product identifiers, such as MPN, Brand, UPC or ISBN. We will make similar changes to Product Search in the UK and Germany at a later date.
These attributes will not be required for your feed to process correctly, however, to avoid seeing a drop in traffic from Product Search, we urge you to start including these unique identifiers as soon as possible. You can find unique product identifier information on Product Search product pages, under the “technical specifications” section for Electronics items, the “Tracks” or “Details” section for Media, and the “Overview” section for books.
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Thank you for your request.
Unfortunately, there is no way to configure the default CS-Cart store to work in this way. Requests of this kind are not covered by our technical support service. Yet, I suggest that you should consider our custom development service. Our custom development specialist can explore whether it is possible to change CS-Cart code to meet your requirements and, if possible, can estimate your request. Please let me know if you are interested in it and I will forward your request to our specialist.
Thank you.
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Sincerely yours,
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Does anyone has any idea how to implement these changes?
I agree that “Product code” can be “MPN” and I think “brand” field can be “manufacturer”?
Question…
How to include the field name “MPN” only for google base export and still on the store frontend the field shows as “Product code”, otherwise most of the customers may get confused what is this new term MPN
We do not have manufacturer field enabled in CS-Cart add-on. We can enable then, but how to include in google export?
Google base has released another requirement for their service. A new attribute has been added to the requirements list, the attribute of “Availability” meaning instock, outofstock, or backorder. How can we add this attribute to the current Google datafeed addon?
I don't even use the cs-cart for this. Several years back I created a excel file, with all my products. and saved to a csv on my server. Then as I create new products or sell out I just change this one file and upload to the server. google comes out each day and grabs it.
I guess if your product lines changes at a fast rate, then you may need a more atomated way of doing this.
Actually the attribute of Availability is not new at all. It's been in the optional attributes all along.
Note that our XML Datafeeds addon (http://www.ez-ms.com/addonproducts/xml-data-feeds.html) already handles all of the new requirements. I would strongly suggest that you use the product_id as the “unique identifier” and use the product_code as the MPN. You can have Manufacturer feature fill the Brand field and you can have an additional feature named UPC for the UPC field. You should also create a new product feature called “Condition” to satisfy the condition field unless (like in existing cs-cart) you want to force everything to New or specific value.
Along with distributed ISBN, etc. you should be able to cover all the new requirements.
Note that requirements are different based on the products being sold. I.e. Books require an ISBN while other things require a MPN, UPC and/or Brand.
If you don't want to buy a supported product, there are several posts here on the forum for how to modify standard exim schema files to get what you want in a CSV format for export.
Actually the attribute of Availability is not new at all. It's been in the optional attributes all along.
Note that our XML Datafeeds addon (http://www.ez-ms.com/addonproducts/xml-data-feeds.html) already handles all of the new requirements. I would strongly suggest that you use the product_id as the “unique identifier” and use the product_code as the MPN. You can have Manufacturer feature fill the Brand field and you can have an additional feature named UPC for the UPC field. You should also create a new product feature called “Condition” to satisfy the condition field unless (like in existing cs-cart) you want to force everything to New or specific value.
Along with distributed ISBN, etc. you should be able to cover all the new requirements.
Note that requirements are different based on the products being sold. I.e. Books require an ISBN while other things require a MPN, UPC and/or Brand.
If you don't want to buy a supported product, there are several posts here on the forum for how to modify standard exim schema files to get what you want in a CSV format for export.
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Thanks… I have everything covered in the datafeed except the availability attribute. If someone could point me in the right direction as to how to change the schema I would appreciate it.
Actually the attribute of Availability is not new at all. It's been in the optional attributes all along.
Note that our XML Datafeeds addon (http://www.ez-ms.com/addonproducts/xml-data-feeds.html) already handles all of the new requirements. I would strongly suggest that you use the product_id as the “unique identifier” and use the product_code as the MPN. You can have Manufacturer feature fill the Brand field and you can have an additional feature named UPC for the UPC field. You should also create a new product feature called “Condition” to satisfy the condition field unless (like in existing cs-cart) you want to force everything to New or specific value.
Along with distributed ISBN, etc. you should be able to cover all the new requirements.
Note that requirements are different based on the products being sold. I.e. Books require an ISBN while other things require a MPN, UPC and/or Brand.
If you don't want to buy a supported product, there are several posts here on the forum for how to modify standard exim schema files to get what you want in a CSV format for export.
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I looked into your solution and it does not support bing shopping. The xml standard is not consumed easily by Bing. Do you have any other solutions?