Hello there, We’ve activated Google Shopping shopify app for our store a month ago. In Google Merchant Center > Products > Diagnostics , we’re getting warning like Limited performance due to missing identifiers [gtin, mpn, brand] ![screencapture-merchants-google-mc-products-diagnostics-2020-05-07…

From other merchants, I have read that you can no long bulk upload Google Shopping related data. To resolve the issue, make sure to add a bar code and brand value in Shopify. If you don’t have this, go to Google Merchant Center > Products > Feeds > click on the feed > feed rules. Now add a feed r…

How long does it take for that error to go away?

This is really helpful, thank you! Should the feed rule be set to: Idenifier_exists set to “no”, or set to “false”? Is there a difference? Thank you in advance.

False is the original value, last year Google changed it to no (I guess to save a few bytes of data) You can use both currently, however, I would set it to no as this is the new updated guideline. Reference: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6324478

I have literally spent all day going around in circles, from ‘link to link’ to work this out and I wanted to help people save time and unnecessary stress! First of all…STOP searching in Shopify and head over to your Google merchant centre account, go to the left hand menu and click ‘feeds’. If you…

What about if you have only a few custom products and you want to set identifier exist to NO only for those custom products and not for the entire feed?Thank you!

Either use feed rules to target these specific products: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7450276?hl=en Or create a supplement feed: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7439058?hl=en

Hi Mei, I followed your steps and created the feed rule. However those warnings did not go away 1 hours after applying the changes. I refreshed the merchant center pages many times still no luck. Any steps did I miss? Thank you!

How to update identifier_exists through Shopify?

Shopify Apps

EmmanuelFlossie September 1, 2020, 8:51am 4

If you have added the data correctly, within 24 hours. If its not added within 24 hours, then something went wrong. You should contact the app support team you are using.

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