How to add google attributes (sepcially age_group and gender) at product creation

[wawmegastore]

Hello all ,

While I'm creating a new product in my store, I want to be able to add some required Google Merchant's attributes  (specially gender and age group) simultaneously , not fixing them later after Google's warning.

If not possible for any reason, at least loading them later via some sort of a CSV file, because i have a lot of products , and manual editing is not that cool !

The simultaneous approach is much more  appreciated, and no 3rd party apps .

best regards

Waw

[wawmegastore]

Hi Crestun

yes sure , i am all ears.

[wawmegastore]

Hello Jeanjail ,

What time zone are you in?

[claricelin]

Hi @wawmegastore ,

If you are using the Google & YouTube app, go to the Overview section, click on Manage Products.

You'll see the list of variants. Scroll towards your right and look for the gender and age group column.

After making the changes, click on Save and it will auto-sync to Google Merchant Center.

Best,

Clarice

[wawmegastore]

Hello Clarice,

Thank you for your advice , and this is what i'm already doing, but that
was not the question.

The question was about inserting that google information at product
creation , not editing it later.

That is either at "Add product" , or "Import" , both buttons are at the
"Products" screen.

Best
Waw

[claricelin]

Google Shopping Gender &  Age Group are information needed ONLY if you plan to have your products listed on Google Shopping. 

This information is not compulsory during product creation but rather only if you choose to set up a product feed for Google Merchant Center using the Google & YouTube app.

Without any third party apps, there is currently no functionality to add those values when you are adding your products (on the product pages).

Best,

Clarice

[wawmegastore · Accepted solution]

Thank you Clarice . I've been listing my products in Google Shopping since
last year , before moving to Shopify , that's why I've listing errors
received via Google & YouTube app in the new Shopify store.
Yesterday I figured out a way to enter Google attributes at the product
insertion, but i'll test it in the next few days , when i insert the next
patch of products, which I'm currently working on its data .

Thank you for your sincere advice.
Waw

[ThanhPham]

 Hi there,

Can you guide me to fix the same error?

Thank you so much,

[Kalman]

I suggest uploading 1 product manually and then exporting. I exported products and the CSV had all the required fields that you would need to import correctly.

Here are the fields I had, that include all the Google / YouTube app fields (Each one being it's own column in the CSV file:

NOTE: You can go into Google Merchant to see the expected results for each field

Google Shopping / Google Product Category,
Google Shopping / Gender,
Google Shopping / Age Group,
Google Shopping / MPN,
Google Shopping / Condition,
Google Shopping / Custom Product,
Google Shopping / Custom Label 0,
Google Shopping / Custom Label 1,
Google Shopping / Custom Label 2,
Google Shopping / Custom Label 3,
Google Shopping / Custom Label 4,

[JoesToes]

Does this still work? Shopify no longer seems to show the google columns.

I can download a .csv containing all products with a specific type of error from Google Merchant Centre but see no way to upload the corrected .csv.  Most of my products come in 10 colours and 10 sizes so google sees these as 100 different products and it's just so time consuming to try and fix one by one. Adding feed rules have helped a bit but still can't get it all to work. 

[Liquify]

No - seems to have gone in past week from bulk editor.  I think on Fri I was editing and was accessible and now not.
But accessible via CSV in Shopify CSV or Matrixify CSV.

[Ieva]

Hi guys! Yep, Matrixify is able to update Google Fields and we also offer a great tutorial on how to do so. You can also reach out to our support directly if you have any additional questions or queries! 

[PoorRichard]

Oh Golly Gee Willikers, who'd have thought !!??  - Another way for shopify to milk more money out of you for something that should and was part of your subscription.  Holy Cow ... or should I say Cash Cow 

I Believe you can add it under Custom Label in the bulk editor   custom label 1 = age_group: Adult    custom label 2 = gender: Unisex and so on ...

 

[JoesToes]

I got around this very annoying ommission by adding feed rules in google merchant centre. Worth searching for how to do that.

For example I set up a rule that if the product title included "baby" to se the age group to "infant". 

[SHFY104zc]

That's exactly what I'm trying to do. Could you please share how you set up the feed rule? That would save a ton of time.

Thanks in advance.

[wawmegastore]

What i did was entering the product information via CSV instead of manually though the Shopify front Panel

[bradical1979]

Hi, what was the solution you found to the missing age and gender attributes? Can you please share your solution?   

[JoesToes]

 ‎03-23-2024 03:57 PM

I got around this very annoying ommission by adding feed rules in google merchant centre. (as previously mentioned). 

For example I set up a rule that if the product title included "baby" to se the age group to "infant". 

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[samzhao310]

I used the Bulk edit feature in Google & Youtube app, and there is field that I can add age and gender. Does it not work this way?

[Alkemiks]

For the future to all who are fighting with this same... Shopify product feed will melt your brain and the feed so badly, that eventually you would have to do like I did->  Cut the feed and connection completely to GMC, even when you edit the CSV file and go to specific column of AGE, GENDER and CONDITION -> upload it back and boom, the data is not implemented. Still blank.

I have s store that sell Sports clothing etc. But I mainly focused on women clothing, so I decided to go around this utter mess by deleting my MALE products completely and focus only on woman clothing, it is so badly orchestrated that it made me physically sick trying to get it to work. I did it by going to my feed rules / attribute rules, if Gender has a value / has no value - Set to-> Female.

I refuse to bow to this system that gives you something but steals after your months of daily work and tears, so I decided to F the system.

This is nothing but money milking from the very step to the last, platform made to look easy and fancy to the outside, but if you're about to make something worth your time -> pay and pay and pay...