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the app has a lot of bugs with it. the GTIN information is filled in completely and 2 days later it shows the data blank even though it is fully populated. The items not approved either lack a reason or has inaccurate information.
This app does not approve several items and it doesn't tell you how to fix the issue. Also, items do not show up on Google Shopping.
Hey there, Thanks for taking the time to leave a review! Totally understand that you'd like for products to be approved and displaying on Google's Shopping tab - there could be a few different reasons for products to not appear, I'd be happy to investigate further with you. I've sent you an email to gather some more context about the issue and I look forward to getting this figured out at the earliest! Chat soon! Nidhi | Shopify Support Specialist
Been trying all day to speak with support about how I've been having an issue with the Google Shopping App in our Shopify store. No matter how much I shorten the product description, the warning always appears stating that the description is too long. Nobody seems to know what to do and I keep getting sent back and forth to different support people as Shopify and Google support point the finger at each other and shrugging off the problem as "not theirs"
Google flagged all of my handmade by myself products as misrepresented, and then failed to provide me with a solution to fix them
Hey there, Thanks for taking the time to leave a review! I've sent you an email detailing some ways to get in touch with Google directly in order to get this solved. I look forward to hearing from you! - Jake, Shopify Support Specialist
Google Product Category Fields doens't work. No matter what kind of category you fill in... It doens't sync.. so dynamic remarkting doesnt work properly.. Syncing with merchant is very slow... buggy. Please work on category syncing...
i don't know why Google don't approve my products and suspended my acc. I don't know what to do to solve it! It says: Account suspended due to policy violation: Misrepresentation of self or product (Untrustworthy promotions) To resolve your suspension, you need to go to Google Merchant Center and contact Google support.
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 a suspended Merchant Center account. 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
It's practically useless, constantly removes products from feeds. really hard interface to work with. literally this app makes the job so much harder. You'd think as they advertise ease of use that Google would get this sorted asap...2 years deep same issues as when I started. customer service is terrible aswell...failed to respond to 20 emails about the same issue....use a third party app
Hey there, Kevin 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 Google not approving your products, there are many policies to abide by to have all products in good standing. I'm going to look into this and follow up with you in an email to open up the lines of communication. I can see you sent in another email so I'll link link that ticket to streamline the correspondence. Kevin | Shopify
I have had this app since August with no problems. Now I receive a message stating "Your account violated the circumventing system policy," and "We've detected suspicious payments in your account." I have not touched anything since setting up the account and received these messages. When I reach out to them, the explanations are extremely vague. I ended up deleting all merchandise, reentering my credit card information, making sure I do not have multiple ad accounts, and still cannot use Google Ads. The merchandise is not showing up in this app like it is supposed to. I really do not see how I benefit from the app and I see no purpose in having it. Not sure if this is a Shopify issue or a Google issue, in terms on how they connect. I just know I have no issues with using Facebook for virtually the same thing. I know I am not the biggest business, but Google needs to make things a little more user friendly.
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 and truly appreciated. I'm sorry to hear of the struggles you are facing with the Ads account suspension. 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
Worst experience. Made 2 accounts was fine then got suspended on one for suspicous payment even though both accounts are on the same debit card? 1 day later my merch center got suspended for terms and conditions as well as my 2nd google ad account? Reach out to fix issue and google said I need to work on my merch account but the link from the merch center was causing my google ad account to be suspended. So i listened to Google and in the mean time unlinked my account and it was unsuspended!!!! 2 hours later it gets suspended for Circumventing???? I have done nothing but try and resolve this with google and never tried to be sneaky and make another account or anything. I have worked so hard and try so hard to email google for help and all i get back is an automated email saying your still suspending and it will remain that way till you fix whatever you need to even though it tells me nothing about what to possibly fix to get things working. Waisted so much time when I did nothing wrong I made 1 ad that ran for probably 12 hours. Waisted so much of my time.
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 suspended account. I'm going to look into this and follow up with you in an email to open up the lines of communication so I can see if I can help you any further. Robyn | Shopify
Be very care with your ad budget. There is a several day lag between what you see in Shopify and what is going on with your actual google ads account. By the time it catches up, that ad that shows not spending the daily budget has maxed out the budget for the last several days. This lead to spending a bunch of money while showing very poor results in the end.
Hi there, Jordan here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to share your review of the Google Channel with us. Your feedback is very important. It is concerning to hear about the ad budgets lag. I will send you an email to open the lines of communication to see if we can further assist you with this matter. Jordan l Shopify
My google account always log out after some time so all product become unavailable on the google channel. Great channel for us to sell but the app have some serious issues. I would like some help here if possible.
Hi there, Jordan here from Shopify. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us, your feedback is incredibly valuable. I would love to better understand your concerns with the Google Channel app and will send a follow up email where we can discuss this further. Jordan | Shopify
Be careful! Shopify is taking ownership of your ads account (admin rights). You should always be owner of your ad account to have the full control over it. So check out other apps. Once again shopify, give us back our admin rights.
Hey there! Charlotte here from Shopify Support. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. I'm really sorry to hear of the frustration you are having. In order to publish ads on a Google Ads account, Shopify requires admin rights to be able to take that action on your behalf. If you would prefer for Shopify to not have admin rights, you can choose to create your own Google Ads account outside of Shopify, and not connect or run ads via the Google Channel. I would love to talk to you further and better understand the issues you are facing, to see what we can do on our end to help. I will send you an email privately, in order to open up that line of communication! Best, Charlotte | Shopify Support
This app is one huge money loser and waste of time. I'd give it zero stars if I could. Every two weeks your products start to expire until they are all expired because Shopify is unable to fix this app. It's obvious when it happens because your sales slow dramatically. It takes days for Shopify support to get back to you, another 2 days for the feed to upload completely again. Each time you contact them they give you some big excuse or explanation about how the app has been fixed. Two weeks later the same thing happens. I find this app just a larger reflection of Shopify now. Competitors are far better. All they care about is making money for themselves at the expense of its customers. I'm really, really fed up with this.
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 ongoing struggles you are facing with expiring products. I'm going to look into this and follow up with you in an email. Hopefully we can open up the lines of communication here and I can see if I can help you any further to avoid this happening again. Robyn | Shopify
I'm finding this almost impossible to use after a year of trying. I've contacted them and it is all way too technical for me to work through and I have been unsuccessful getting professional help with it either. Really disappointed in this one, I had hoped it would be easy to use.
Hey there, Spencer here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to share your review of the Google Channel with us. Sorry to hear of the struggles you were facing with getting set up. I'm going to 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 with getting the app set up and working for your store. Spencer l Shopify
I used this app and my products were all the time not approved... I uninstalled the app and now I lost google console.
Hey there, Nidhi from Shopify Support here. Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback and I'm sorry to hear that you have had trouble getting products approved. I'm going to follow up with you in an email to open up the lines of communication so I can dig further and see if I can help with getting the channel set up and working for your store. I look forward to chatting with you! Nidhi | Shopify
Not quite sure what I'm doing wrong, but regardless of the budget I get almost no traffic. I have been using Facebook ads (until recently with the error bans) for about three years and get much better return on investment which is easy considering I get nothing from this app.
Hey there, John here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to share your review of the Google Channel with us. I'm sorry to hear you are disappointed with the Campaign you are running so far. I'm going to 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 with improving your product data in case you are missing any required information. John R | Shopify
Been working with this app for 6 weeks and can't get my products to be approved for Enhanced Listings. 100% listed as "ineligible for enhanced listing," "Severity - Disapproved" at the Merchants Center, yet I meet all the Google requirements. It would seem that I am banned from Enhanced Listings with this app. If so, this is useless.
Hey there, Claire here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to share your review of the Google Channel with us. I am sorry to hear of the struggle you were facing with setting up the app. I understand this decision is made by Google directly but I'm going to 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. Claire l Shopify
Having created bespoke pictures of products to fit in with my website, my listings got rejected because of the images. Could not amend feed image details to provide an alternative picture that was OK .
Hey there! Claire here from Shopify Support. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. I'm really sorry to hear of the struggles you were facing. If there were changes made to your account settings this can trigger a re-sync which might be what happened here. I would love to talk to you further and better understand the issues you were facing to see what we can do on our end. I will send you an email to open up that line of communication! Claire - Shopify
Can support please get back to me about how to get rid of the active campaign that is left in my shopify admin EVEN AFTER I have deleted the app. No response from app support. I do NOT recommend this app.
Hey there! Claire here from Shopify Support. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. I'm really sorry to hear of the struggles you were facing with your campaign. I would love to talk to you further and better understand the issues you were facing to see what we can do on our end. I will send you an email to open up that line of communication! Claire - Shopify
Simple to set up, but doesn't work, seems like a bug to me. The products are not syncing to the Merchant Center. Under each product, it says "Google has noticed that your shop does not meet Google's requirements." Yet, when you look at the Google channel settings it says "Your shop meets Google Merchant Center's basic requirements".
Hey there! Claire here from Shopify Support. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. I'm really sorry to hear of the struggles you were facing. I understand at the time of your review the app was experiencing some sync issues but these have now been resolved. I would love to talk to you further and better understand the issues you were facing to see what we can do on our end so we can get the channel working for your store. I will send you an email to open up that line of communication! Claire - Shopify
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