Google is rejecting my feed

uksitebuilder wrote:Enter shipping info in the Taxes & Shipping section of your Google Merchant account

uksitebuilder wrote:The message you are probably seeing relating to this is pretty much being displayed to all merchants, more so as a warning of things to come, rather than it actually being a failure with you items.

uksitebuilder wrote:Yes it is the delivery that is causing the failure

Most people use different domains and thus different google accounts for their multi stores

That way shipping can be set up correctly for each store within Google

Your feed would then pass the basic tequirements

uksitebuilder wrote:You should check if your products require the Google Product Category (not all product types do)

Brand can be easily fixed by you creating Manufacturers/Brands in OC admin and then assigning them to your products

iSupply3D wrote:Just want to add that I had this issue with a new Google Merchant account and a new OC 1.5.3 install.
I tried google-base-improved-v1.5b but was still getting "missing delivery information" errors from google.
To fix it I went to Google Merchant, Settings > Tax and Shipping and created a weight based shipping method.
As I am in the UK (ie,outside the USA) I also had to specify a TAX method of "Not charging taxes" - not specifying a tax method still caused the errors.

where u get google-base-improved-v1.5b? I still struggling with Missing shipping information & Missing recommended attribute

iSupply3D wrote:

where u get google-base-improved-v1.5b? I still struggling with Missing shipping information & Missing recommended attribute

from this thread: http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?t=51604

However, it didn't make any difference to my errors - I still had missing delivery information error and Missing recommended attribute: google product category warning
As far as I can tell, only the errors are important and you don't have to worry too much about the warnings.
It seems that the UKSB paid extension is the quickest way to sort this properly

iSupply3D wrote:To get rid of the attribute warnings I have downloaded the Google taxonomy excel spreadsheet from here:
http://support.google.com/merchants/bin ... wer=160081
Then picked the category most of my products are under..eg:
Electronics > Print, Copy, Scan & Fax Accessories > Printer Accessories > Printer Consumables
Then I've manually altered the .xml file and added the category to each item, before uploading to google,eg:

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<item>
.
.
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<g:google_product_category>Electronics > Print, Copy, Scan & Fax Accessories > Printer Accessories > Printer Consumables</g:google_product_category>
</item>

Note that > means > (Greater than symbol)
& mean the & Ampersand symbol

Getting rid of the delivery information errors was, like you say, just a case of editing the settings in Merchant as I previously showed.
I know it's a PITA but hopefully these additional fields will be added to the feed in forthcoming versions of OpenCart

this is not a good idea

$item->appendChild($this->_c('g:google_product_category', 'Electronics > Print, Copy, Scan & Fax Accessories > Printer Accessories > Printer Consumables'));