Original Google Base Export

Store Builder Questions
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received today this from google




[quote]Hello ,



In reviewing the items you are submitting through the Google Merchant

Center, we have found some issues with the information submitted. Because

of the issues listed below, all of your items for the indicated countries

are at risk of being suspended from Google Product Search. Please fix

these issues within 7 days to avoid suspension of all your items.



Account:xxxxx.com

Account ID: 11111111

Country: US



Missing or Invalid Unique Product Identifiers



Some or all of the items in your feed are missing unique product

identifiers, such as 'MPN', 'brand' and 'GTIN'. These values are very

important for matching users' queries to your products. It is required to

provide unique product identifiers for most product categories.

Please visit

http://www.google.co…y?answer=160161 for

complete information on our unique product identifier requirements.[/quote]





Where do I set these 'MPN', 'brand' and 'GTIN'.

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[quote name='Darius' timestamp='1319545698' post='124506']

received today this from google











Where do I set these 'MPN', 'brand' and 'GTIN'.

[/quote]



MPN is your product code. Brand and GTIN (UPC) should be set up as features and the file pulls the data from “Manufacturers” and “UPC”. Some modification may be needed to suit your set-up.

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[quote name='The Tool' timestamp='1319546797' post='124507']

MPN is your product code. Brand and GTIN (UPC) should be set up as features and the file pulls the data from “Manufacturers” and “UPC”. Some modification may be needed to suit your set-up.

[/quote]



I sell hand made goods, crafts they have no brand or any manufacturer numbers…

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[quote name='Darius' timestamp='1319558230' post='124521']

I sell hand made goods, crafts they have no brand or any manufacturer numbers…

[/quote]



You'll have to discuss that with Google.

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[quote name='The Tool' timestamp='1319565276' post='124535']

You'll have to discuss that with Google.

[/quote]



Could I encode brand name in to google.php thant would be same for all exported products? In some cases only two of required options are necessary.

46

Without modifying the code, just set up a feature called “Manufacturers” and assign the manufacturer name to each product.



Or you could modify the code and set manufactures/brand up as an option.

47

[quote name='The Tool' timestamp='1319626714' post='124581']

Without modifying the code, just set up a feature called “Manufacturers” and assign the manufacturer name to each product.



Or you could modify the code and set manufactures/brand up as an option.

[/quote]



Too many products to apply to, will have to find someone to modify code

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[quote name='Darius' timestamp='1319626806' post='124582']

Too many products to apply to

[/quote]



A simple import is all you need to do.

49

Heres what solution I was provided, not tested so far


[quote]'brand' => array (

'process_get' => array ('fn_darius_brand', '#key', 'Manufacturer'),

'linked' => false

),[/quote]



then among functions


[quote]

// This function returns static brand name

function fn_darius_brand($product_id=0, $feature_name=0)

{

return 'MYBRAND';

}[/quote]

50

Would it be posible to choose not only exporting lang but also currency? my base currency euro but exported as $

51

I do not use multiple languages/currencies so I do not know. I would imagine that it should work off of the language. The price import is original and has not been modified in any way.

52

Just like to update that my solution above does work with second 2.2.3 addon version (sets brand name)

53

My recent experience with Google Merchant for my export required applying for and recieving an exemption for MPN/UPC as we are in a similiar situation (not all of our products have UPC codes. We were granted an exemption and all was good until they changed the requirements yet again. Google is now requiring an “Availability” attribute which is not native to the version of cs-cart I am using and I am trying to figure out how to add that information into the export function.

54

Why “Custom made goods” in list not available?

55

A little late, but I noticed a change that had to be made for your latest 2.2.3_2.zip google.php page.

Line 190 cscart_product_features_values and cscart_product_features_descriptions should both be temptized to ?:product_features…



Also, has anyone found a way to export this feed via cron?

I looked at the POST data via Chrome, and I think I can handle this with a wget or curl request, but just wondering if there is an easier way.