Reviews for Google & YouTube

My goal was connecting YouTube shopping as our videos are the #1 source of conversion. This App is extremely frustrating. Forced me to create a new Merchant Center account rather than feed to our existing account which has worked perfectly for years. This shut down my Google Ad campaigns for a week while waiting for approval of products and various errors to patch up. Finally all connected, new Merchant Center is up and running. STILL CANNOT GET YOUTUBE TO PICKUP OUR PRODUCTS! I lost a significant amount of revenue in this transition, and it seems like Shopify isn't providing any support. There should be a litany of troubleshooting videos. Very disappointed.

It's been about three weeks now of attempting to connect Shopify to my monetized YouTube channel and after multiple interactions with reps, it's starting to become clear this app just is NOT compatible with YouTube brand accounts (which no one actually knows for sure or not). If that's the case, I'd say this function is pretty useless considering majority of channels use/migrated to brand accounts!

It kinda does the thing, but has some issues: 1) It uses UA instead of GA4. 2) When using UA, you are prompted to migrate to GA4 3) If you do it, many important Goole Ads conversions stop working, because they depend on UA at the moment. So Google is basically guiding you to break their own product atm.

Absolutely useless if you have PRODUCT VARIANTS. This app ignores them totally. Very disappointing!!

They have suspended my account for 'suspicious payment activity' but I only just opened it. They are also refusing my products for no reason.

It's still crazy that an application developed by Shopify does not work. I installed this application and when connecting my Google account I got an error: Error 400: invalid_request

Update 5 Aug. Thanks to Shopify's in-house magician Jason, it's now working for the first time ever, and it only took a few straightforward changes. Many thanks Jason! Has anyone ever managed to get an advert running via this incredibly poor app? I've tried countless times but it would honestly be easier landing my car on the moon. Why do you need to link the app, Google Merchant Centre AND Google Ads just to get this to work; which it NEVER does. Any campaign I create just sits on 'pending' FOREVER.

Sadly I moved to Shopify to get this app working with my Youtube channel. Can't get it working it's terrible and my YouTube channel is for tech training. People have multiple youtube channels not just the main login.

Tsutomu Lures

2022-08-05

United States

Horrible app and horrible support from youtube. Successfully set up shop only to have no visible merch shelf on my videos. They told me to disconnect shop and then reconnect, which has proven to be impossible.

Es muy facil de usar y mejora mi alcance de productos.Me facilita el llegar a muchos segmentos de mercado que antes me costaba alcanzar.

So I attempted this morning to add this. Two issues. First, it created a brand new account under my main google merchant center login. This is not what I wanted. I am a trusted store, have local and Buy on Google set up under my other account. Why would I want to start from scratch. The other issue is that I have sub-accounts under my main google merchant center account. It allowed me to select from them, but didn't list the actual sub-account I needed to connect to. It only listed three of the four sub-accounts I have. I have no idea why it didn't list them all. We do live shows every month and have over 85,000 followers on Youtube. I think this could be awesome if you can help me to get it to work and I would change my review to 5 stars.

La app de google channel si funciona bien, pero por alguna razon tengo un problema al momento de quitar o borrar los anuncios no se borran por completo ya van como dos anuncios que e borrado pero aun me muestra que los anuncios aun siguen activos.

Basically pure hell with shopify not integrating with google merchant center at all NOT THROUGH API, NOT THROUGH GOOGLE APP NOT THROUGH GOOGLE MERCHANT!!! SHOPIFY PROMOTES A GOOGLE APP- HERE https://apps.shopify.com/google?search_id=46852b99-4046-46df-a0ca-ae8160d0357b&surface_detail=GOOGLE&surface_inter_position=1&surface_intra_position=4&surface_type=search Its really just google merchant center but its broken and mine still is stuck on 5/7 items validated and will not approve any of my products. ( NOTHING AND IM MEAN NOTHING WORKS) I have all custom products, no GTIN no MPN but no matter what I do its still will not accept my products, even when I have done everything in the documentation here https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/160161 Ive done everything that I possibly can per the documentation to let google know its a custom product, I have even created custom meta fields, supplemental feeds etc., etc.. NOTHING WORKS. set it to false, no - nothing in the suggested documentation works. Someone else made a video not mine of course, however I feel his pain I have done all of whats in this video to no avail, This video explains what we are all going through with shopify not integrating with google merchant. and google and shopify passing the buck https://www.screencast.com/t/fHC13pVy Even when you go directly to google merchant and change the settings globally it still will not take which leads me to believe this is a shopify google marriage disaster and it DOESNT WORK! PLEASE REMOVE THE APP OR FIX IT!

Having problems with this App. It tells us our account is suspended, but when we check with Google they say all is fine!

The youtube integration doesn't appear to work consistently. If a user has an ad-blocker or YouTube premium the shopping section does not show.

Google検索からの新規の集客に不可欠なアプリです。アプリ側で商品のGTINやMPNを設定してもGoogle Merchant Centerに反映されず大変不便なので、これらが反映されるように早急な改善をお願いします！

Editors Keys

2022-07-26

United Kingdom

Quite a poor app at this stage, throws up GTIN errors when all products have codes, can't connect to youtube channel. So far causing a lot of issues

I set my daily budget but it uses next to nothing, I am not getting coverage on google shopping, so I am not getting orders through this app.

This app is almost infuriating. I have had API issues with it since installing it. I've disconnected and connected several times it fixes the issues for a day. I'm constantly getting errors for things like missing gtins when they're ALL there. It's really frustrating and Shopify doesn't take any responsibility for the issues. Google says it's the app, Shopify says it's Google.

This app does not sync products with existing Google Merchant Accounts. Every single one of my items was marked "not approved". Then, to add insult to injury, my existing Google Merchant Account was suspended and the link within the Google Channel on Shopify to "Request Re-Review" sent me to a page within Google that never loads. It also appears that my Google Merchant Account shipping settings were somehow changed and then sent back to Shopify. Even though I only sell digital items (which require no shipping), my order notifications from Shopify now have an unnecessary and unwanted "Create Shipping Label" button. I have uninstalled the app and hopefully that cleans up all the problems because I don't want to waste any more time with this mess.

It does not sync the products correctly with google merchants. When I made a bulk edit in my products price in Shopify, it did not sync with google feed, and some products were reproved in google because of the different price in the feed x website. Also, my products have variants of size and color, and it does not sync that information with google automatically because the option is not written in English, is in Portuguese. So... it has a lot to improve!!!

Have to give this one star. It's like Shopify isn't even trying here. As already mentioned GTIN does not work. Barcode filled in but you still have to manually go into the Google app and then select FALSE. If you have more then 50 skus this also might not even work for you and is extremely labor intensive if you have a lot of skus. Like many shopify apps that shopify themselves build, it sucks. Fairly certain it sucks on purpose so you purchase apps.

The app works OK and generally functions as expected but it has its challenges when managing a large library of products. For example, if a product has a UPC, you need to select the Google Channel, then Manage Availability, then toggle each product to false (every product!). Once a barcode is entered into the field, it should automatically be assumed that the product is not custom. It's also very time-consuming to scroll all the way through large libraries to get to products further down the list loading small groups of products at a time just to enter data or toggle the Custom Product field to false. Having the ability to filter by a brand or product would be ideal. Google Metafields disappear often too, causing delays and challenges when updating a large number of products. These issues would ultimately be solved by provided the True/False custom product drop down on the product page, instead of a checkbox to indicate "custom" or leaves the field blank instead of false.

The main issue that we have is the GTIN missing issue, but apparently that's old news with the amount of reviews and the inability for the issue to be fixed. Either support doesn't have the authority to float this critical issue up, or there's a brick wall between Shopify and Google. Either way, not very reassuring. Through testing it has become pretty clear that either column for GTIN on the data being sent to GMC either has a bad naming convention or bad path way assignments as GMC will pull all other data but the UPC, which is on the data sheet going to GMC - it just gets read on the GMC side as a blank cell. The thing that is really irritating is that although we cant fix this ourselves, it cannot be that hard of a fix.

I could not even sign into my google acct to link this...it kept saying "Disable pop-up blocker" even after I did it still didn't work. It's stupid and infuriating!