Google Shopping Feed Addon
Note: Integration with Google Feeds is an optional addon please contact support if you are interested in activating this for your website
Setting up Fields in your Accounting System
Three custom fields are used for your Google Feeds integration and will be created on your products in the web catalogue:
GoogleProduct - this can be mapped to a custom checkbox field in your accounting system and specifies which products to include in the feed
GoogleSetProductCategory - this can be mapped to a custom text field in your accounting system and is mandatory
This field should be populated with values from the google_product_category field from Google's specifications
GoogleProductCategory - this can be mapped to a custom text field in your accounting system but is optional
This can contain any text to categorise the product
If left blank it will use the website product categorisation
This field maps to the product_type field from Google's specifications
Using Google Feeds
This file will automatically generate four times a day as per Google's recommendations and will be made available on the following URL path documents/google_feed_live_tab.txt. The generated file will not be visible via the CMS > Content Management > Documents & Images function, it is only available on the URL path specified.
The file can also be manually re-generated and downloaded via the CMS:
Administration > File Upload/Download > Download Tab
Select Google Feeds File from the first drop-down menu
The file is a tab delimited text file.
Google File Specifications
More information on the specifics for each field in the file can be found here:
More information on GoogleSetProductCategory and GoogleProductCategory can be found here:
Google File Mapping
Google Field (see links above) | Straightsell Field | Mandatory |
|---|---|---|
id | Product Code | Yes |
title | Product Name | Yes |
description | Product Description | Yes |
link | www.website.com/ProductCode/ProductName/pd.php | Yes |
image_link | www.website.com/productimages/ProductCode.jpg - if exists | Yes |
additional_image_link | www.website.com/productimages/ProductCode_1.jpg - if exists | No |
availability | Depending on stock levels "in stock" or "out of stock", if a product has Allow Negative Quantities set to Yes, then it is reported as "in_stock" | Yes |
price | Inc GST price from Pricing Calculator in AUD | Yes |
google_product_category | GoogleSetProductCategory - (check specifications for acceptable values, can leave blank) | Yes for |
product_type | GoogleProductCategory - (if this is empty it takes your website categorisation) | No |
brand | Manufacturer Name | Yes (For all new products, except movies, books, and musical recording brands) |
condition | Defaults to "new", can create a Custom Field named "condition" to assign on a product by product basis to either "new", or "refurbished" or "used" | Yes |
identifier exists | Defaults to "no", automatically sets to "yes" when a "GTIN" Custom Field exists | Yes |
GTIN | Requires a Custom Field named "GTIN" to be created to be included in the output file. Blank "GTIN" values are accepted on a product-by-product basis | No |
MPN | Requires a Custom Field named "MPN" to be created to be included in the output file. MPNs assigned by a manufacturer | No |
product_length | Requires a Custom Field named "GoogleLength" to be created to be included in the output file - support units are "cm" and "in" - example entry "20 cm" or "15 in" | No |
product_width | Requires a Custom Field named "GoogleWidth" to be created to be included in the output file - support units are "cm" and "in" - example entry "20 cm" or "15 in" | No |
product_height | Requires a Custom Field named "GoogleHeight" to be created to be included in the output file - support units are "cm" and "in" - example entry "20 cm" or "15 in" | No |
product_weight | Requires a Custom Field named "GoogleWeight" to be created to be included in the output file - support units are "lb", "oz", "g", "kg" - example entry "3.5 lb" or "5 kg" | No |