bharvey wrote:Installed the Google Merchant Static Feed Mod with very little problems. Works great except I have one BIG problem...I'm only able to submit 400 products to Google (USA store), out of 64,000 unique items in my store.
Reason? 63,600 items are apparel products not being accepted. Google has implemented more feed rules for USA stores only.
These requirements are known and there's some notes on what is/isn't currently supported in various spots but just to bring this up to date... See below.
The following attributes in this section are required across all products in the 'Apparel & Accessories' product category (including all subcategories):
gender
age group
color
size
This side of things has been added with the last release
but will only pull out the data from custom fields, not variations (See below)... If you have products with custom fields with the above field labels ("colour" also supported for non US feeds) the feed will generate the correct google feed fields with the data stored.
Product Variants
In fairness, the lack of support for variations is something that I have made as clear as humanly possible. I am aware that the Apparel/Accessory requirements are quite steep and while they are only currently USA centric it's only a matter of time before they are required for other feeds as well.
The problem is that Interspires code does not provide any mechanism for displaying variation data as either pre-selected or as a static page such that the displayed information correctly displays the variant information fed to the feed or the price.
Probably worth noting as well that because this is lacking I haven't bothered (yet) to provide the necessary functionality so that variation combinations can be output in the feed.
The past three weeks, we've experienced a 90% drop in web traffic to our online store. If I can't come up with a solution of getting the Google feed fixed for our apparel products, I might as well close the doors until we can switch our web site to CS-Cart.
Help? Any ideas or comments?
Aside from those above, my honest advice would be to jump ship anyway... The Interspire Shopping Cart product is a dead duck despite what Scott on the Interspire forums is busy protesting to the contrary. The lack of feature updates, the promise of backported functionality to deal with things like this is just a bit of polyfilla to try and cover the cracks of a product that's crumbling to bits.
I am making the necessary preparations to jump ship with my own store in the future but I will still be maintaining the various mods until it's utterly pointless to do so, so variation support is still on the cards, as is pre-6.0.14 support for this module.. It's just a question of "when" rather than anything.