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Google Shopping Feed for Magento 2 User Guide

• Table of Content
• Extension Installation Guide
• Configuration
• Set Google Product Category
• Bulk Update Product Status for Google Shopping
  Feed
• Google Shopping Feed Attribute Mapping
• Google Shopping Feed Rules
• Google Shopping Feed XML Log
• Feed File Upload in Google Merchant Center
• Feed Fetch Schedule in Google Merchant Center

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• Extension Installation
• For Magento Marketplace Customers
• Find the Composer name and version of the
  extension in the extensions composer.json file.
• Login to your SSH and run
• composer require meetanshi/magento-2-google-shoppi
  ng-feed --ignore-platform-reqs
• Enter your authentication keys. Your public key
  is your username your private key is your
  password.
• Wait for Composer to finish updating your project
  dependencies and make sure there
• arent any errors.
• To verify that the extension installed properly,
  run the command
• php bin/magento modulestatus Meetanshi_GSFeed
  --ignore-platform-reqs
• By default, the extension is probably disabled.
• Enable the extension and clear static view files
• php bin/magento moduleenable Meetanshi_GSFeed
  --clear-static-content
• php bin/magento setupupgrade
• For Magento version 2.0.x to 2.1.x - php
  bin/magento setupstatic-contentdeploy
• For Magento version 2.2.x above - php
  bin/magento setupstatic-contentdeploy f
• php bin/magento cacheflush
• For Meetanshi Customers

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• Configuration
• To configure the extension, login to Magento 2
  backend, move to Google Shopping Feed ?
• Configuration where you can find various settings
  to configure the extension.
• Add All Product(s) while XML Generation Adds all
  products to XML feed generation and ignores the
  attribute selection of product.
• Schedule Periodic XML Generation Set Yes to
  schedule product feed XML generation on a
  regular basis. This setting sets up the cron that
  keeps regenerating the product feed file (XML)
  that Google Merchant Center fetches to update
  your shopping feed.
• Frequency Sets frequency for XML generation.
• Monthly generates XML on monthly basis.
• Weekly generates XML on weekly basis.
• Daily generates XML on daily basis.
• Hourly generates XML on hourly basis.
• Start Time Starting time of XML generation that
  considers server time as a base time. Do not
  forget to schedule cron to periodically generate
  XML feed.
• Remove Out of Stock Product from XML Set Yes
  to remove out of stock products while creating
  product feed XML and restrict those products
  upload in Google Merchant Center.
• Apply Catalog Rules on Product Price Select
  Yes if you want the catalog rules to be
• reflected in the product prices shown in the
  Google Shopping.
• Remove Pub/ from media url Set Yes to remove
  Pub folder from media URL. Its used for the
  URL starting with media folder only, like
  https//www.abc.com/media/catalog/product/a/b/ab.j
  pg
• Add to Cart Redirection from Google Shopping to
  Product Page It redirects from Google Shopping
  listing to product page if set to Yes else it
  redirects to checkout cart URL.
• Show Product Price with Tax/VAT in Google
  Shopping Feed Select Yes to display product
  price with Tax/VAT in Google Shopping feed.
• Add Product Special Price in Google Shopping
  Feed Select Yes to display product price

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• Set Google Product Category
• The extension requires to set Google Product
  Category for your Magento categories based on
  Google Product Taxonomy.
• For Magento Categories
• Go to Catalog gt Categories, select the category,
  find the tab Google Shopping Feed, and set the
  ID of the Google product category listed here
  that best fits with your Magento category.

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• For Magento Products
• Go to Catalog gt Products, select the product,
  find the tab Google Shopping Feed.
• Google Shopping Product Enable the product to
  include in Google Shopping Feed.
• Google Product Category Set the ID of the Google
  product category listed here that best fits with
  your Magento product.

Note The Google Product category will be
prioritized in Product gtgt Category. If you have
set Google Product category for the product, it
will be shown, else the ID of the category in
which the product resides will be shown.
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4. Bulk Update Product Status for Google Shopping
Feed The extension facilitates to enable the
product status for Google Shopping Feed using the
mass action. If you want to only show some of
the products in Google Shopping Feed, set their
product status to YES. Go to Catalog gt Products,
select the products to update their Google
Shopping Feed product status and select the
Enable in Google Shopping Feed mass action from
the Actions dropdown and set the required status
in bulk.
Note Updating Google Shopping Feed product
status using mass action is not performed
immediately but adds the action in queue. The
execution of the queue is purely dependent on
your cron job set up and number of product
updates to reflect the change in Google Merchant
Center.
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5. Google Shopping Feed Attribute Mapping After
the extension installation, the extension
automatically creates default mapping between the
product attributes and Google Shopping Feed
required fields. You dont need to create
mappings for those fields. For example, SKU,
name, description, image etc.

• Add New Mapping
• If you have custom fields to be mapped to Google
  Shopping, you need to create an attribute for
  the required field and map it with the Google
  Shopping Feed field. To add new attribute
  mapping, simply go to Google Shopping Feed gt
  Google Shopping Feed Attribute Mapping and Click
  Add New Mapping. Select the Google Shopping Feed
  attribute code and a relevant
• Magento attribute to create the mapping.

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6. Google Shopping Feed Rules The extension
facilitates to create rule-based XML feed. For
example, if you want to exclude products of some
specific categories from the XML, you can create
a new Google Shopping Feed rule for the same
from Google Shopping Feed ? Google Shopping Feed
Rules.

• Add New Google Shopping Feed Rule Feed Settings
• While creating new feed rule, add the feed name,
  path and feed XML file name.

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• Add New Google Shopping Feed Rule Product
  Conditions
• Set the product conditions based on which you
  require to create XML feed file.

7. Google Shopping Feed XML Log All the manual
and scheduled XML file generation log is saved in
a separate grid under Google Shopping Feed gt
Google Shopping Feed XML Log. You can see the log
added every time the product XML gets generated,
with the details like start and finish date and
time, how the XML generation took place
(manually or using schedule), status and other
details. You can download the XML file from
Action column of a grid to use it for the feed
upload in Google Merchant Center.
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8. Feed File Upload in Google Merchant
Center Once you generate products feed XML file,
you can upload it in Google Merchant Center.
Login to Google Merchant Center, move to
Products ? Feeds from the sidebar and click on
the button to upload new XML feed file. It will
ask you to add basic feed information.
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• Enter feed name and input method. If you want to
  upload the products feed XML manually, use
  upload method. You can also use scheduled fetch
  if you want to automate the process.

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• Upload the feed file and click Create Feed
  button to successfully upload all the products
  for
• Google Shopping.

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• Products successfully uploaded to Google Merchant
  Center.

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9. Feed Fetch Schedule in Google Merchant
Center To keep the product feed updated in the
Google Merchant Center, you need to setup feed
fetch schedule to keep on updating the product
XML generated in Magento 2 on a regular basis. If
you have set up Periodic XML Generation schedule
in Magento 2, you can set up fetch schedule in
Google Merchant Center to upload the XML feed
file regularly. Move to Settings from the Feeds,
and under the feed settings, set fetch frequency,
time, file URL.
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