Bulk Editing Slow and Does Not Save Changes

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Google Bulk editor is unbearably slow and close to useless…

EVERY TIME I edit 25 items even (which I’ve limited myself to because the screen will sit and spin for an hour if I try to edit 100 or anything over 25) when you hit “save” you should count on sitting there staring at the screen trying to save for 5 minutes. THIS IS NOT A BROWSER OR WIFI ISSUE
Half of the time the edits do not save and I have to do it over and over again anyway. Welcome to the last 3 months of hell… Seemingly- you’ve edited and finally gotten all of your products updated and listed on Google, Bing, etc… notsomuch. The next time you log onto the shopping channel a week or so later. You see nothing but errors and half of your products de-listed fro the search engines that drive customers to your products & store.

Furthermore- you cannot set the view to be consistent. So EVERY TIME I finally get it to save- you have to go

BACK into Shopify’s main platform

click back into the Google Sales Channel

direct yourself using the arrow buttons to the next group on 25 items (hoping that when you pass the ones you’ve just edited are actually saved this time)

*>*select the newest group of 25 items to edit

set your view options/categories

hand copy/paste the MPN into every single field

Rinse & Repeat
Rinse & Repeat
Rinse & Repeat

…with Microsoft sales channels etc. It’s Sales Chanel listing hell. My listings are constantly being de-listed and my business has suffered tremendously.

Why doesn’t Shopify simply apply a box to check that allows the listings to populate the required fields using a selected value (like an “if then” formula in excel) such as:

“Google, Microsoft, Meta and every other sales channel all require specific information that we aren’t prepared to deliver them- how would you like us to handle that? Populate GTIN/MPN fields with SKU or UPC data when you identify your product as a ‘Custom Item’?”

If I am missing it entirely- PLEASE help me sort it out. Otherwise, Shopify is becoming a hinderance and suppressing my traffic due to it’s inability to keep up with the data changes and required information by the sales channels it is presenting itself as being able to comply with.

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If you do a search here on the community, you will notice that a lot of merchants have issues with not being able to submit correct product identifiers to Google Merchant Center.

The following setup applies for product identifiers:

When submitting product identifiers, the following should be applied.

If a manufacturer has assigned a bar code, then submit brand, MPN (if available), GTIN, and set identifier exists to yes.

If the manufacturer has not assigned a bar code, then remove the values brand, MPN, GTIN, and set identifier exists to no.

While the official documentation does mention, you can submit brand + MPN and ignore GTIN. However, in most cases, this will cause issues and generate warnings such as limited performance due to missing identifiers.

And as of June 2021, specific categories and or countries require barcodes to be submitted, regardless if you have any. So, in this case, you need to get official GS1 barcodes.

Reference: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6098295

A secondary reason for issues is that most merchants tend to use SKU as the MPN values, which is incorrect.

SKU stands for “stock keeping unit” and — as the name suggests — it is a number (usually eight alphanumeric digits) that retailers assign to products to keep track of stock levels internally.

An MPN, or manufacturer part number, is a manufacturer-assigned, unique, alphanumeric value used to identify a product among other products from the same manufacturer.

More info:

You can update the rules using feed rules assuming you don’t have any barcodes, explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvilyMb2Bo

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I also keep editing 2 channels, 1 primary market, and it doesn’t change. I have so many products in my shop but am having to manually go in and change everything, it has been over a month.

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Hello @argreene you might want to change the data feed app you are using. To something with more features, such as: https://apps.shopify.com/multiple-google-shopping-feeds