Hi, I have all my products synced and available in the Shopify Google App, however I keep getting an error on Shopify side telling me: Barcode isn’t the correct length (needs to be 8, 12, 13, or 14 digits in length). Whilst on the Google side I get: Missing value [gender]> > Missing value [co…

For correct error and warning reporting only use Google Merchant Center > Products > Diagnostics. When submitting product identifiers the following rule applies. If a manufacturer has assigned a bar code, then submit brand, mpn (if available), GTIN and set identifier exists to yes. If the manufac…

Hi, Thank you for your reply. Apparel Products> > For apparel products go to Shopify > Products > Click on your product > More actions > Google Fields > add the variants Reference the above. I have already done this. This is my whole post, the sync between Shopify and the Google Merchant is not…

This is what shows on Shopify in the Google section: [danblackadder_1-1618915139748.png] This is what shows on Google for the same product: [danblackadder_2-1618915227596.png]

Then the issue is with the app, not you adding the data. As this is a technical issue, contact the developer support, ie Shopify.

Okay, thank you for your reply. I have sent them a message, but wanted to ensure I wasn’t doing anything wrong in the mean time. If there is anything I can do to force a re-sync, that would also be helpful.

On a related Note: Is there any way to add shopping-feed-specific data to variants? On a product-level we can add information like gender, color and age-group, and those information get added to each viariant in the export (great). But we build variants over sizes ( S,M,L etc), so there is no use t…

Depending on the app you are using, it should allow you to added the size values on a per variant level. If you are using the default free app go to your product > click on your product > more actions > google shopping > add the size value. For other apps, get in touch with the support team to hel…

We are using the default free app. The path product > more actions > google shopping > add the size is something available on the product level and adds the information to the products. This is useful since all variants “inherit” the information of the product, so for exaple you only have to maintai…

For my clients, I use datafeedwatch which can automatically map the option attributes to any google attribute. Alternatively, create a supplement feed in Google Merchant Center and add the data. https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7439058?hl=en

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danblackadder April 20, 2021, 10:42am 5

Just to add more information, as you can see from the above post, I have also filled in the category ID, but I still get this:

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How to fix syncing issues between Google Merchant and Shopify app?

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