Google & YouTube

The newest update of this app has caused a lot of products for our business.

We used to be able to easily filter before bulk editing products - specifically Google metafields (color, size, age group, and gender) for apparel. We could filter by vendor or active/draft or sort by created and products with issues were an entire category that we could edit separately.

However, since the past updates - we can now only edit all of our products at once (which we have over 10,000 so it is impossible to work with anymore.)

Great flexibility in editing in bulk and identifying the issues and helping to fix

De Shopify Google App werkt prima en doet precies wat ik nodig heb. Alles wordt netjes gesynchroniseerd met Google, waardoor mijn producten goed zichtbaar zijn zonder dat ik er veel tijd aan hoef te besteden. Het bespaart me een hoop werk — ik kan mijn tijd nu aan andere dingen besteden!

It is so disappointing to see a brand like Google coming up with this kind of an app. It is not for shopify store owners at all. Everything is extremely complicated and creates a headache. I have no idea what am I doing wrong and google support is robotic. They keep pointing us to articles after articles to read. This has become such a big headache. Not user friendly, not helpful, definitely not DIY. I have two stores and as soon as I connect the other store my current store becomes unapproved. I connect my other store to a new account, it says you already have an account and cannot open a new one. I just gave up after 3 months of wasting tuime and effort. Horrible.

difficult to set up, but once you go through the growing pains you see the value in setting it all up

In the Google & YouTube plugin, some previously generated and uploaded primary data sources in GMC (Google Merchant Center)—for example, the one with the country set to Australia, named “Shopify App API,” and with the Feed label “AUD_13723795709”—have recently shown a product count of zero (estimated to have occurred between August 22 and August 25, 2025).

Meanwhile, the system has automatically generated and uploaded new similar primary data sources to GMC. Notably, the product count in the new data sources is exactly the same as the count in the original sources before they were reset to zero, and all historical product data has been preserved. This indicates that the products were in fact automatically migrated from the old data sources to the newly generated ones.
Only some of the main data sources have this problem, while others do not. The main difference between the data sources lies in the target countries.
The question is: Why does the plugin automatically generate new primary data sources?

Hermosos colores de leopardo y material duradero

Vor kurzen haben wir unseren Shop zu einer neuen Domain volmer-clothing.com umgezogen. Das wurde im Merchant-Center auch für ca. 1 Monat akzeptiert.
Seit 3 Wochen erhalten wir Fehlermeldungen - u.a. "Der Domainname Ihrer Website muss mit dem hochgeladenen Domainnamen übereinstimmen".
Die Domain ist im Merchant-Center verifiziert und beansprucht und in den Feeds korrekt angegeben.

Avoid this platform if you value sanity. Nothing is consistent: one typo and the entire feed stops syncing, then you get flagged as if it’s your fault. The rules are vague, enforcement is random, and customer support recycles canned answers that solve nothing (via email, no phone, no chat, days of waiting and waste of time for no help etc...). You follow the documentation line by line, it still fails, and then you’re punished for “non-compliance.” It’s a trap of moving goalposts and zero accountability—not a place for anyone who needs reliability. Basic tasks spiral into endless loops: sync → error → appeal → repeat. The system penalizes microscopic formatting differences while ignoring its own bugs. They demand millimeter-perfect standards from you, yet don’t hold themselves to the same—a terrible example. Miss a single character, the feed won’t refresh; fix it, and you get a new unexplained rejection. You don’t even know if they’ll ban you because the Shopify feed refresh lags a few minutes—delays outside your control—so you never get a real diagnosis; support replies with copy-paste templates and you get banned for that too. Support is slow, scripted, and unhelpful. This wasted days and delivered nothing. And here’s the kicker: if a review fails, your Google Ads account can get restricted or blocked; you’re forced to wait days before requesting another review, and those reviews are rationed. Burn through a few attempts and you’re effectively shut out of ads for good. Now I understand why so few people stick with this platform and choose alternatives. This isn’t a professional ecosystem—it’s roulette with your business on the line. I’m switching to alternatives immediately so I can actually see my ads delivered.

This app has been super dissappointing. It should not be offered to shopify store owners without proper guidance and control. It is being offered as if everything will go smoothly and as if shopify has done its verification process and there are no issues. It does not allow you to manually choose your products but just automatically syncs the products into merchant account at the beginning. The app should provide potential issues you may have before syncing your products in google and being hit with misrepresentation, policy violation, or any other issue. It should give you an option of whether you want to sync your products to free listing only or both free listing or google ads. It should allow owners to exclude products certain channels in shopify itself since it is easier to filter and bulk edit in shopify than in Google & You tube. It should also provide a checklist or warning of potential issues of why your store will be disapproved by google. Any live help should be offered immediately to relief shopify owners that unknownily fall into this situation.