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Below review submitted one year ago and the issue is still not fixed. As far as syncing products the app works great. Issues arise when you have a large number of products - thousands to be exact. We are currently at 6101 SKUS and when attempting to bulk edit in the app it freezes once we reach product 1100 and provides a "Page Unresponsive" error from Shopify. Google Tech Support has verified all is fine on their end so this issue is definitely on Shopify's end and seems to only appear when you have more than 1000 products. Others that have left reviews seem to have run into the same issue with this app. They told me this would be fixed by this morning and it is not. With other reviews encountering the same issues in the past months, it is evident Shopify is unwilling or unable to correct the issue. I would look elsewhere. Wish Shopify would take care of issues with their platform as opposed to aesthetics. Shopify platform and support have deteriorated a great deal over the past 3-4 years.
Updated Response 1 year later: Hi again! Unfortunately this is a Shopify bug, not a bug on our app. I know you still are having this issue, but we only own the app, not the bulk editor page you are using, so rating our app as 1 star won't help to fix their tool any faster. Thank you for the review. We have noted your feedback around the bulk editor. As you pointed out, that portion is actually owned by Shopify but we will be sure to pass on the feedback to their relevant product teams. One workaround you may find useful in the meantime is using the import/export feature available on the Shopify Product page. More details can be found here: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/import-export If there is anything else we can do to help you, don't hesitate to contact us! https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/shopify_3p_support_app
Unable to create multiple feeds, unable to sync products to multiple countries.
This app doesn't allow me to complete the set up integration with google and YouTube. There is no easy way to contact google about this issue. If I cannot finish the setup or contact google for help, what is the point in having this app as an option to add to my site on Shopify?
Hello there and thank you for taking the time to leave a review. First, we are sorry for any frustrations you encountered during the onboarding phase - that was certainly not our intention. We do have a dedicated support team that is on standby to help you through any of the issues you are seeing. You can reach them at https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/shopify_3p_support_app Our support team should be able to get you squared away. Thank you again for the feedback.
Does not locate correct Merchant Center account
Hi there and thanks for leaving the review. There are a few reasons this may happen with the most common one being that the admin user in your Merchant Center account does not match the email from your Shopify account. You can read about how to edit user access settings in Merchant Center here: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/1637190?hl=en You're also welcome to reach out to our support team who can walk you through the linking process: https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/shopify_3p_support_app I hope this helps!
Der Google Merchant Center Support ist das schlechteste, was ich je gesehen habe, ungeschulte Mitarbeiter, die immer wieder die gleichen Antworten schreiben. Es wurden mehrere Center gesperrt, keinerlei Hilfe von keiner der Mitarbeiter zu erwarten. Sie kommen ins Stottern, weil sie selber nicht mehr wissen, was sie sagen sollen, weil sie nur überfordert sind. Meine Existenz und meine Selbstständigkeit stehen auf dem Spiel, von monatlichen 60.000€ bis 70.000€ Umsatz auf 0€ zufallen und keine Reaktionen von Google und dem Merchant Center Support, selbst wenn der Anwalt schreibt, keine Reaktionen. Da gibt man monatlich fast 10.000€ bei Google ads aus und bekommt als Antwort warum oder wegen was die Center gesperrt sind, immer das gleiche, Sie können mir nicht helfen, sie hätten selber keine Möglichkeiten. Selbst in der Google Merchant Community List man nur von gesperrten Centern und das keiner eine Hilfe bekommt und keinerlei Optionen auf eine gute Zusammenarbeit. Ich hoffe, Shopify versucht mal bei Google Druck zu machen, dass es so nicht weiter geht!
Hello there and thank you for the review. I apologize for any frustrations you have encountered. I see that you have contacted our support team earlier this month and have asked them to get back in touch with you to see if they can continue to help you resolve some of the account issues you are seeing. Thank you for your patience and again for the feedback.
Oh my god. What a struggle this app is. You might think that an app built by Google would be the perfect solution for including Google ads and google merchant account. The reality is: it’s the worst solution. Attribution for ads is the worst our store has ever seen. Merchant account sync is the only useful thing about this. There is no fixing any of the Google ads or Google analytics problems. Their support policy is basically “screw you”.
Hi there and thank you for the feedback. Sorry to hear you are having issues with attribution tracking on the Google & YouTube App. There are a number of reasons why GA4 conversion or attribution tracking may differ from other dashboards such as UA or Shopify analytics. You can read more about them here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/13672281 We have noted your feedback around attribution and support experience and will share it with the relevant teams. Thank you again.
I've been using the app since earlier this year when I created my store. I didn't run into many issues other than the occasional missing gtin or a product being disapproved. I sorted it all out, 100% of my products were approved and only several were not (only for dynamic retargeting). Fast forward several months later, I go to check on my products in the google merchant center and I see that my account has been suspended due to: Misrepresentation. I thought maybe this happened because I ran into a issue with Shopify that same day where it said I had to add a CAA record to my domain. But nope, I do not think so. The account suspension reason that google provided is vague. It lists many possibilities why my account could have been suspended but not THE reason. So, I honestly do not know why. I tried to message google to see if I could get an explanation but the only thing, I got in return was automated responses linking their misrepresentation policy. I decided to search for user experience regarding the issue and behold I found nothing but nightmare stories. Most users seemed to have never gotten their issue resolved and gave up. Thus, leaving their account suspended forever. The strange thing is that my account was perfectly fine for five months straight. I didn't change anything, only added, or removed products. Then out of nowhere I get this. It's kind of sad. I'm not sure if I will be able to use the google and YouTube app ever again. And for a reason I'm not even aware of. I'm a small business and it's a nightmare to have to deal with automation repeatedly and left in the dark about alleged issues. It seems like it might be impossible to fight issues such as this.
Hello there and thanks for leaving a review. We are sorry to hear this has been a cause of frustration for you. We regularly review this feedback with our product team so all the details you provided were very helpful. Google's policies are in place to protect merchants and consumers. If you would like to learn more about this particular policy and how you can request a re-review, please visit: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6150127?hl=en&sjid=15068795589301841412-NA You can also open a case with our support team through the above link to further assist in trying to unblock you. Thanks again for the feedback and we will share it with the wider team.
Linking this app in Shopify is utterly impossible if your shopify admin email address does not match your google ads and google merchant center email addresses. Google offers no useful support at all so don't count on any help from them. I have sent numerous emails to their support center and they just push me around in circles with no resolution in sight, after weeks of trying. Stay away from this app if any of your email addresses (in shopify, google ads or google merchant center) is different from the others. Perhaps the app works but i will never know because there is no useful support at all. We spend thousands of Euro with Google every month, but get no support in return. Very disappointed.
Hello and thank you for taking the time to leave this feedback. I apologize for any frustrations you had linking your accounts. I wanted to provide a bit of context as to why we have this requirement around matching emails and why it is done to protect our merchants. The reason we require the admin emails in Merchant Center, Ads, Analytics to match when linking to Shopify is to prevent fraud and any unauthorized account takeovers. I do see you have had multiple support cases with us and have asked our support leads to take a closer look at your most recent, open case to ensure it is handled properly and hopefully resolves your account linking issue. Thank you again for the review and feedback.
Using it for GA4.0 but the analytics is very different from actual figure. Support is not helpful either.
Hello and thank you for the feedback! Sorry to hear you are having issues with conversion tracking on the Google & YouTube app. There are a number of reasons why GA4 conversion tracking may differ from other dashboards such as UA or Shopify analytics. You can read more about them here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/13672281 It looks our support team did provide more context as to how GA4 tracking works and I am sorry if this is still causing frustration for you. We have noted your feedback and rest assured we do track this and share these insights with our product and development teams. Thank you again for the feedback.
Was notified after a few days my shop was suspended due to website needs improvement. After contacting them by email. I have not receive any instructions on how to fix the problem or where in the website it needs improvement in.
Hi there and thank you for leaving this feedback. We apologize for any frustrations you have encountered around this. In case you haven't already seen the Help Center around the "Website Needs Improvement" policy you can find it here: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/10740889?hl=en&sjid=7744043795859814750-NA It highlights reasons that may cause this policy enforcement. If you feel that you have resolved the issues or it is being applied in error, you can request a review (instructions on how to do so are in the article above). One thing we noticed was on the product page for your Café con Bochince (Gossip with coffee) Candle under the "Add to Cart" button there appears to be a broken text/link from your Shopify theme. You will want to resolve that on that page and others. Shopify support can provide help around editing your theme but if you still have other quesitons around this policy or anything else app-related, please contact our support team: https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/shopify_3p_support_app Thank you again for the review and feedback.
To difficult to setup. Assistance is scarce.... still waiting after 2 weeks for help! NO BUENO. If I can get somehelp from someone it would seriously help
Hi there, thanks for sharing this feedback. I understand you reached out to our support team to get additional guidance around policy/suspension enforcement. While we are not part of the team that handles this enforcement, I will see if we can get you more details that will help you resolve any open issues. We apologize for any frustrations you have had.
Frustration after frustration. I am getting a misrepresentation violation but I can't understand how my business is misrepresenting itself? Everything is legitimate, the products offered are officially licensed products. How is that a misrepresentation? The violation list I am shown when I sign into my merchant account is also vague, there is no way for me to know which one I am violating. If I can get a clear direction on which specific violation I am committing that would be helpful, but at this point my account is constantly getting suspended which I do not believe is my fault.
Hi there and thank you for the feedback. We are sorry to hear this has been a cause of frustration for you. Google's policies are in place to protect merchants and consumers. If you would like to learn more about this particular policy and how you can request a re-review, please visit: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/13447091?hl=en&ref_topic=13402337&sjid=15119101867569295281-NA I do see you have opened a case with our support team around this issue and they are best suited to try and resolve this for you if you feel your account has been overflagged.
Utterly terrible and simply unable to setup. The App is asking us to add a refund policy when there is one already. Google support offer no help and Shopify can't help ether, Uninstalled.
Hello there and thank you for the feedback. We apologize for any frustrations you encountered while onboarding. We do require all merchants have their policies (Shipping, Return, Refund) populated within the "Policies" page in Shopify Settings (https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/checkout-settings/refund-privacy-tos). We will reach out directly to get more details and see if we can unblock you.
Horrible. Impossible to connect to Youtube Channels. Complete waste of time. Do not bother installing.
Hello there - thanks for leaving us a review and feedback. We are sorry to hear you were having challenges connecting your YouTube Channel. There is some eligibility criteria documented within the app interface and more in-depth in our Help Center: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72851?sjid=17515629745871199990-NA Please take a look at that article and if you still are having troubles connecting, feel free to reach our support team at https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/shopify_3p_support_app
Doesn't work. I have to update Google Center directly and then it resets and I have to start over again.
Hello there and thank you for the feedback. We will reach out directly to see if we can support you in getting onboarded.
This app is a total disaster. Following all setup steps and spending a lot of time to present all our products diligently, we got banned by Google, and then spent months trying to find out how to unblock our account. Until today we haven't succeeded. They keep sending us vague emails, telling us to read endless articles and policies and guess what we might have done wrong. Not only is this treatment pretty arrogant and condescending to a merchant with absolutely no intention to do any harm. It's also completely disrespectful of our time. We have wasted so much time on this topic with no outcome. The monopoly that a company like Google holds unfortunately allows them to treat merchants like this.
Hi there. We are sorry to hear this has been a cause of frustration for you. Google's policies are in place to protect merchants and consumers. If you would like to learn more about this particular policy and how you can request a re-review, please visit: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/13447091?hl=en&ref_topic=13402337&sjid=15119101867569295281-NA I do see that you have been in touch with our support team and hopefully they can reach a resolution for you. Thank you for your patience.
Too many data discrepancies! The dataLayer implemented thanks to the Google Ads integration is not deployed properly - for some purchases it works, for some others it doesn't. Impossible to know why.
Thank you for the review! We are sorry to hear you are seeing data discrepancies and will be in touch to futher investigate and try to resolve for you. You're also welcome to open a case with our support team at: https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/shopify_3p_support_app
Can;t even log in after installing the thing. Can't use it AT ALL. This app has reached its sign-in rate limit for now. Google limits how quickly an app can get new users. You can try signing in again later, or ask the developer ([email protected]) to increase this app's sign-in rate limit.
Hi there! This should be resolved but I will reach out to you directly to ensure you're unblocked. Thanks for the feedback.
I am not very happy with this app at all. GA4 Analytics, just does not deliver correct Data. Always Purchases or Add to Cart Values are missing. Also the Sales appear earliest 1 day after. in Google Universal Analytics the Sales Data appeared just a max 15min later. How can this be solved?
Hello there, thank you for the feedback. We are sorry to hear about your frustrations with GA4. I am hoping I can share a few resources that may answer your questions. First, please take a look at this help center article about comparing GA4 to UA: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/11986666 Additionally, if you're still having questions about the integration please reach out to our support team: https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/shopify_3p_support_app
Trying to figure out google ads and why they keep suspending my ads accounts and having issues with my listings has gone on for months. We've paid people, spoken to their 'help' desk so many times it's absurd. they should have videos step=by-step on how to set up successful merchant centers and ad accounts. Now I have 2 suspended ads accounts and merchant accounts with issues that we keep fixing and then get suspended. It's terrible.
Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear this has been a source of frustration. Google's policies are in place to protect merchants and consumers. If you would like to learn more about this particular policy and how you can request a re-review, please visit: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/13447091?hl=en&ref_topic=13402337&sjid=15119101867569295281-NA If you would like further help trying to resolve these issues, don't hesitate to contact us at: https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/shopify_3p_support_app
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