Google & YouTube for Shopify

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1 / 5 Share
Nov. 7, 2021

3 weeks waiting for google to approve my products, but I keep getting errors even if everything is well set up. No support from shopify - they send me to google, but google sends me back to shopify. This app is a joke.. and is also not well documented. You have to blindly guess where every issue is coming from, optional fields are actually mandatory fields (you will find this on your own time..), and the bulk editor for google fields is a joke - you have to go page by page in order to find a product that needs a option checked for google.

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Developer Reply

Hi there, William here a support specialist with Shopify. I see from your review that you've had some trouble getting your products approved and using the bulk editor. I also understand that the level of support you received was not at the standard you were expecting. I'm going to reach out to you via email to discuss the account specific details, please look out for my email. William | Shopify Support Specialist

1 / 5 Share
Oct. 31, 2021

It worked for two weeks very well. After that it stopped working. No visible reason. No exsisting troubleshooting site.

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snow-water 8 months 1 1.0
Developer Reply

Hey there, Adil here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback on your experience. We definitely want you to get the support you need in regards to the issue you are facing with the Google Channel. I'll be sending an email out to you shortly to explain some details. I look forward to communicating with you there. Adil | Shopify

1 / 5 Share
Oct. 29, 2021

I find it quite disappointing that because our store currency is in Naira which is because we are in Nigeria, we are unable to use this application. We tick all the boxes and have been using Shopify for 3 years. I do think this discrimination is unfair and we have been trying to use this for over a year now. Would be great if this can be reviewed

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Shoepify Over 1 year 8 3.5
Developer Reply

Hello, Jacky here from Shopify. Thanks for taking the time to submit your feedback. At the time of this reply, Nigeria is listed as a beta country of sale on Google and the Google channel does not support those countries. I will follow up with you over email to open up the lines of communication. Jacky | Shopify

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Oct. 28, 2021

The product sync suddenly lost connection without any notification. We have lost significant revenue because of this. And as at today, around half month after the issue happen, there is no update from Shopify and no one contacted us. I am desperately looking for solution but could not find any. Seriously disappointed.

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Phoenix Sweets Almost 3 years 8 4.4
Developer Reply

Hey there, Adil here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback on your experience. We definitely want you to get the support you need in regards to the syncing issue you are facing with the Google Channel. I'll be sending an email out to you shortly to explain some details. I look forward to communicating with you there. Adil | Shopify

1 / 5 Share
Oct. 24, 2021

This app has never worked properly and i end up with a misrepresentation violation from google which suspends my account. Its quite frustrating as google never actually tells you what you have done wrong

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Bike Supply Drop 4 months 1 1.0
Developer Reply

Hi there! Paola here from Shopify. I understand how frustrating it is to not know why your account was suspended due to Misrepresentation. Google does not share with us at Shopify why an account was suspended. Our app only reflects their decision. With that being said, I'm happy to share with some suggestions based on our experience. I will be following up with you through email shortly. I look forward to chatting with you! Paola | Shopify

1 / 5 Share
Oct. 20, 2021

Same issues. Does not work. Google requires GTIN codes and if left empty all your products will be disapproved. I create custom products and it doesn't work.

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Natural For My Baby 8 months 2 3.0
Developer Reply

Hey there, Jason here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to share your review of the Google Channel with us. Your feedback is extremely valuable. I'm sorry to hear of the issues you are facing getting your products approved with Google. I'm going to look into this further and follow up with you in an email to open up the lines of communication here and see if we can provide more information to help get this resolved. Jason | Shopify

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Oct. 12, 2021

I am very very unhappy. This app had a bug of which they did not inform their clients about and all my products expired off Google (after running smoothly for years). That led to my Google Business account being unverified and disappearing off Google and now the only way I can get verified is by postcard (22 days waiting period, if it ever arrives) I have lost SOOOO much money and my Google rankings that I worked so hard on are all gone. I have send support requests and no one from this app even bothered to get back to me. I would not recommend this app as their clients are not important to them. They killed my Business.

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Kwaitokoeksister Over 2 years 5 4.2
Developer Reply

Hi there, William here from Shopify, we're sorry that you haven't received the level of support you were expecting and we're definitely interested to hear more about what happened with your account. Since this has information specific to your accounts I will reach out over email to discuss further, please look out for that email and we'll bring any feedback to the developers to investigate. William | Shopify Support Specialist

1 / 5 Share
Sept. 26, 2021

100 percent of our products are custom, when Shopify updated this app a few months ago, I lost thousands $$$ since then on unperforming ads and loss of traffic, since then do to my products were not showing properly on google searches. This is because the app has a bug that its not letting google know that my product identifier does not exist, which means that the app is not letting google know that my products are custom and do not have a GTIN or MPN. After months trying to figure out why my products were not showing consistently with Google, Google told me that do to this issue I am loosing about 80% of my traffic and not getting any organic shopping traffic!!! After speaking with 3 different shopify support agents, Shopify told me the other day that this option is not necessary and will not have any negative effect on my listings. THIS IS NOT TRUE. I manually updated my Google feed with Identifier exist to NO which this APP fails to do and let me believe that it is doing so, Now my two store is starting to show improvements on the listing and orders are coming in more frequently via Google, after months!!!!! Being a small business owner and relying 100% on our online stores to support my family, I feel that Shopify google app and its support let me down. This issue can be tested by going to a product listing - More Actions - Google App and check mark "this is a custom product". This check mark should be letting google know that the product have an "identify exist" with a value of "NO". It doesnt do this update which is a bug on the app that will be affecting ALL shopify users with custom products that are similar to other products. Google app will eventually override my feed via the content API and give me issues again, which is what I am worried about!

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My Furever Memories 8 months 6 4.3
Developer Reply

Hey there, Robyn here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to share your review of the Google Channel with us. We really appreciate your feedback. I'm sorry to hear of the struggles you are facing with custom products. I'm going to look into this and follow up with you in an email to open up the lines of communication here so I can see if I can help you any further. Robyn | Shopify

1 / 5 Share
Sept. 25, 2021

Im still waiting for support i got products thats been pending over a week and wont upload to Google or sync correctly products I have deleted days ago are being disapproved even though I have removed them days prior might just have to delete this app and start fresh so my merchant account doesn't get suspended.Shopify needs to get it together and be accountable for issues like this or retire the app because your app is causing alot of peoples accounts to get suspended,you preach about how Google is strict however your support response time is un acceptable waiting for your response will get your account suspended. Best thing to do is delete the app from your store and the products if you see them quickly being disapproved so you dont get your GOOGLE account suspended and just go with a app that you have to pay a couple of bucks,it will be less headache.

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The Connection Team Over 1 year 5 3.4
Developer Reply

Hi there, My name is William with Shopify support, I'm going to reach out to you over email to discuss the account specific details related to your question. We definitely appreciate the feedback about the app and want to get this resolved for you. William | Shopify Support Specialist

1 / 5 Share
Feb. 1, 2023

Update* 11 months later I tried again. Google couldn't fix tagging issues, couldn't fix feed issues. Couldn't get verified properly. It got to the point i was being advised to "just leave it" and continue setting up paid ads. Considering these things affect cpc and many other factors it not smart for the people who built it to tell you to just leave it with errors and obviously not function correctly. Wasted so many phone calls. They couldn't keep appointments straight. They couldn't keep straight what website they were calling about and I guess they have to rebook for a new day if its not exactly the topic and website they are calling about. Oh and they won't rebook for you over the phone on the call. You have to then play email tag back and fourth for many more days before they set a time. But don't expect to get anything done when they call again! They spend the first 5 min trying to get off the phone and convince you to rebook because they thought it was for another domain or something else they are not able to figure out. I wasted so many phone calls and never got anything even started to be set up. 11 months later and still very bad and nothing set up. older issue below... Won't connect.. I get an error about billing when everything is perfect. I contact shopify they say its an issue with google. (even though its a shopify app) So I contact google, to my surprise they say it's an app that they didn't make so they can't make changes to it. They confirmed everything is set up correct on their end. So I then contact Shopify again, which isn't easy. They say it's google fault but they have no idea why or any idea what to do. Sigh! I Give up, I can tell there is no actual troubleshooting. It's just a computer illiterate person working at home trying to figure out if this goes to tier 2 or not. Shopify you're useless again!!! Oh and to make matters worse all my products are not approved for no reason just like everyone else. Wasted 2 hours and no fix.. time to uninstall

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Carver Maker Over 1 year 6 1.0
Developer Reply

Hi there, William from Shopify support here. I understand that the setup process provided you with an error and in troubleshooting that error it sounds like we missed the mark on the level of support you were expecting. I'd be happy to review this with you and I'll reach out to you via email shortly. Cheers, William | Shopify Support Specialist

1 / 5 Share
Sept. 3, 2021

It was great in the first few days, but then all of our five thousands products got disapproved from enhanced listing and google do not give us a particular reason. We cannot find the solution from the articles provided. Many products were moved into pending without a reason. There is no useful support at all.

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Front and Company: Gifts About 1 month 3 2.3
Developer Reply

Hey there, Adil here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback on your experience. We definitely want to make sure that you get the clarification you need in regards to the issue you are facing with your products. Although Google is best to direct you with this, I'll be sending an email out to you shortly to explain some details that could help. I look forward to communicating with you there. Adil | Shopify

1 / 5 Share
Aug. 20, 2021

This app has no refresh the feed on the merchant center. just created a product when I config but there's no refresh mode to get changes in the products.

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Developer Reply

Hey there, Spencer here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback on your experience. The Google Channel is designed to automatically update any product that gets changed, so there should be no need for you to instigate that. I'll be sending an email out to you shortly so that we can dig into this deeper for you. Spencer | Shopify

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Aug. 19, 2021

This app is bad. We are 8 days in trying to get 26 products approved, not able refresh the feed, will probably have to wait another 5 business days for them to tell me some things not right.. support is useless. Will probably have to delete and start fresh with the sales & orders app. We have 1400 products with this one on another store and never had any issues like this.

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Developer Reply

Hey there, Adil here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback on your experience. We definitely want to make sure that you are getting the help you need to ensure your products are being synced to Google in a timely manner. I'll be sending an email out to you shortly and I look forward to communicating with you there. Adil | Shopify

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Aug. 10, 2021

This app no refresh the feed on merchant center. just created a product when I config but don refresh the stock nor changes in the products. I have 1 month with me feed outdated. and on the documents or help articles dont tell anymore about that.

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chilebefree About 2 months 2 3.0
Developer Reply

Hey there, Adil here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback on your experience. We definitely want to make sure your products are being synced to Google in a timely manner so I'd love to discuss this further with you. I'll be sending an email out to you shortly and I look forward to communicating with you there. Adil | Shopify

1 / 5 Share
Aug. 6, 2021

Horrible Customer Service! We have been running very good shopping campaigns since 2018. Come The end of May 2021 something in Google changed and adds stop running with success and cost skyrocketed. We were getting 500% return on ad spend and now it is one to one. We have reached out to Google from 2 months and the support or underwhelming. We even got disconnected on Phone call and they never attempted to call back. The shopping campaigns are automated and we have accepted/acted upon every recommendation from Google. Support is non existent. We should have learned our lesson after building Google Shopping Site and Google discontinued the efforts.

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Prince of Scots About 3 years 9 2.1
Developer Reply

Hello, Jack here from Shopify. Thanks for taking the time to submit your feedback. Our app allows you to link your products to Google and run Shopping ads. Any changes to the ads performance would be the because of Google. I'm going to follow up with you over email to open up the lines of communication and see if we can address some of the issues you were having. Jack | Shopify

1 / 5 Share
July 20, 2021

Worked well until it didn't and then it was a disaster. Google closed account for Misrepresentation on 18th June after we updated our URL. All all the information is fed through the App from Shopify we have been unable to resolve. We have lost c£10k in the last 4 weeks and will be out of business soon.

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HomeFit 5 months 3 3.7
Developer Reply

Hi there! Thank you for taking the time to let us know your experience. Your feedback is extremely important. I absolutely understand how this experience was frustrating and I want to make sure I can do everything in our power to help you get the Google Channel setup and working. I will be reaching out to you through email shortly. Looking forward to chatting with you! - Paola, Shopify Support

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June 22, 2021

Does Not Work...Has Not Worked For Years...How there are so many good reviews is beyond me! Only reason I looked at trying again, but I can see that most people have the same issues I have. This should be a number one priority or so you would think! Please don't respond from Shopify telling me that you are going to look into this, just do something!

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Soda Pop Shop Over 3 years 1 1.0
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June 3, 2021

doesn't work with custom products. Won't even update new products. Tried to get help but no joy. give up

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Sprinkled with Magic 7 months 3 3.7
Developer Reply

Hey there, Spencer here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to share your review of the Google Channel with us. Your feedback is extremely valuable. I'm sorry to hear of the struggles you are facing setting up your products. I'm going to look into this further and follow up with you in an email to open up the lines of communication here and get you set up fully. Spencer | Shopify

1 / 5 Share
May 24, 2021

My ad account has been suspended due to no GTIN, MPN, code and I have custom products. This is very frustrating. Google has given me instruction on editing the API feed to - but that does not seem possible.

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Flying Sheep Country 2 months 4 4.0
Developer Reply

Hey there, Robyn here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to share your review of the Google Channel with us. Your feedback is extremely valuable. I'm sorry to hear of the struggles you are facing with a Google account suspension. I'm going to look into this further and follow up with you in an email to open up the lines of communication here and get you set up fully. Robyn | Shopify

1 / 5 Share
May 10, 2021

I am not able to add Google product category and other relevant data at collection level which makes the whole process of updating a big catalog unnecessarily painful to update.

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Shingora About 1 hour 2 3.0
Developer Reply

Hi there! Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback! Although it isn't possible to add Google product attributes at a collection level, this can be done using the Bulk Editing tool in the Google Channel or by editing the Google fields on the product pages. I'll be following up with you via email to offer assistance to help you get set up and would be happy to share your feedback with our developers to take into consideration for future improvements. Chat soon! Nidhi | Support Specialist

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