Good afternoon everyone. Many of you must have received this notice from Google today:
My question is, how do I control those attributes (availability, availability date) within Shopify? Or are these fields that Shopify automatically populates in its feed to Google? Thanks for your guidance.
Kind Regards,
Ryan
If you are using the free shopping app, built by Shopify. Only sale price availability dates are synced.
Pre order or back order are not synced.
There are 3 ways you can proceed.
You could use a different data feed app, such as: https://apps.shopify.com/multiple-google-shopping-feeds
And use a custom value and rule as shown in the image.
You could use feed rules in Google Merchant Center: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7450276?hl=en
Or use a supplement feed to overwrite data: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7439058?hl=en
Hi Emmanuel. Thanks for your reply. Been chewing this over for a bit. I’m thinking this may not really be an issue. Let me know your thoughts on this:
I only want products that are currently available to be shown on Google Shopping. I don’t need to use Google to advertise incoming products or out-of-stock products that need to be refilled (or may never be restocked). Both of those would be, in my opinion (based on shopper behavior–they want it now or they go elsewhere) a waste of my Google ad spend.
So, if this situation only causes Google to disqualify out-of-stock products…I’m thinking that we’re OK with that. But maybe I don’t understand it fully.
When a product that has been disqualified is re-stocked, I’m assuming Google will notice that and remove the disqualification, i.e., make it available on Google Shopping again?
Does Shopify fill the [availability date] field if a product is currently in-stock and available? (I guess if it doesn’t, I have some work to do to make sure that field is filled.)
If you mean disapproved, at all cost avoid having this issue at all times. Whatever is causing the product from getting disapproved resolve that issue.
Too many errors, and your account may get flagged for a suspension.
To understand the issue, go to Google Merchant Center > Products > Diagnostics.
Perfect. I can go with google spreadsheet as an additional feed.
I can’t find how to use API rules to set the date. Looks like i can evaluate some
Set title to: my_first_feed.brand + " " +my_first_feed.title
I wonder if where is any reference for the operations i can use. Ideally to set availability date to +30days from now.