Google & YouTube
Drive sales with the Google & YouTube app on Shopify
Rating
4.6
feedback
8,676
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#112
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Nov. 24, 2020
This app simply does not work. It creates a feed that gets 100% of the products rejected by Google Merchant Center.
Hey there, Chelsea 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 and receiving product errors. A member from our team will follow up with you in an email within the next few days to open up the lines of communication here so we can see if we can help you any further with getting the app set up and working for your store. Chelsea l Shopify
Nov. 6, 2020
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
Nov. 4, 2020
All they do is reject your product, and suspend your Merchant Center account so you can't advertise on Google
Hey there! Charlotte here from Shopify Support. I would be happy to follow up with you and help you through any errors that you are experiencing. I will send you an email so that we can chat further! Also keep in mind, anytime you need support, you can click on the "Get Support" button in the top right corner of the Google Channel. This will send your request/question directly to our support team. Charlotte | Shopify
Oct. 27, 2020
I have been trying for over 3-weeks to simply setup my account. My products have repeatedly been rejected for "violating" policy. Yet, I've not been told what the violation is or how to correct it. Finally just deleted the app and moved on.
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 your products approved in the Google Merchant Centre. We work pretty hard at helping with approval issues, 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. Spencer l Shopify
Oct. 25, 2020
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
Oct. 20, 2020
I used this app to approve my products for Google Ads. I read reviews where this app did not work, but still gave it a chance. My product was not approved and I was not given a reason to why my product was not approved. Very disappointed with the app, especially because I read the guidelines and I know my product doesn't break any violations.
Hi there, Jordan here from Shopify support. Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. Your feedback is extremely valuable. I realize that having products disapproved with little information can be challenging and am disheartened to hear that this has shaped your experience with the app. I will send over an email to discuss this further and help get you an email to explore this further with you and would to explore this further with you and help out where possible. Jordan | Shopify
Oct. 16, 2020
I decided to give this a try this week, even after reading all the bad reviews. It was a week of wasted time, I could not get any products approved, my accounts were constantly suspended, yet I could not get any information on the actual violations, only pointed to program policies over and over. Each account, Google Merchant and Google Ads, is dependent upon the other. So, if one account has a suspension, so does the other. I would fix one, and the other one would get a violation. I would fix that, and another violation would pop up. I went over every word of every policy again, and I was not in violation, and there was nothing left to fix. I finally removed the channel from my store. I was very hopeful to have this to grow my new business. I agree with other reviewers. It is very, very difficult to use and to solve the issues the automated system claims you have. Good luck if you try it out.
Hey there, Chelsea 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. Chelsea l Shopify
Oct. 14, 2020
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
Oct. 8, 2020
This is too bad to use at all. My product cannot be approved,My product does not have any violations, it is difficult to pass the review
Hey there, Robyn from Shopify Support here. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us about the Google Channel. I'm sorry to hear of the struggles you had in 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. Robyn | Shopify
Sept. 20, 2020
Worst ever app to set up. EU based selling world wide, this app is impossible to setup. NO help or what ever.
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. In the future it is possible to reach out to us directly by clicking Get Support in the top right corner of the screen when in the Google Channel. Spencer l Shopify
Sept. 15, 2020
Can not connect with my Shopify account. Plain sucks. Shopify does not even have a way for customer support. Seem like a glitch to me
Hey there, Chelsea 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. Chelsea l Shopify
Sept. 15, 2020
I used this app, it syncs the products to Google Merchant Center well but it is not for Merchants with a huge catalog. Google expires all products after 30 and yet listing and approving the products takes 10 days for us. Meaning we do not have business for 10 days of the month due to feed update. Also when a product is disapproved and you delist it, it will update after at least 7 days and with us our ads where disapproved because of this. But if you list a new product it updates immediately which is good. If they can improve on products expiring as well as deleted products update the app will be perfect for all users
Hey there, Chelsea 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. Chelsea l Shopify
Sept. 12, 2020
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
Sept. 7, 2020
Absolutely terrible! All my listings were rejected (and try to figure out what needs to be fixed...impossible!) Shopify support sucked, too. AVOID!
Hey there, Claire 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. Claire l Shopify
Sept. 6, 2020
I've had this up for over a month now and still 0 traffic from it with a good size daily budget not sure what the issue is but any help would be appreciated.
Hey there, Claire here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to share your review of the Google Channel with us. 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. Claire l Shopify
Sept. 5, 2020
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
Aug. 19, 2020
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
Aug. 11, 2020
For some reason the app doesn't install the pixel events on my website. It's been almost 2 months since the "developers" of Shopify would look at it. Still nothing.
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 getting your issue 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. I will send you an email to open up that line of communication! Claire - Shopify
Aug. 9, 2020
Tracked conversions in google ads will automatically disappear? Any reason why?
Hey there, Claire here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to share your review of the Google Channel with us. 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. Claire l Shopify
Aug. 4, 2020
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