Upcoming changes in Google feed requirements

[eileen]

I just received an email notice from Google that after May 3, 2011 their feeds will require 2 of 3 of the following: Brand, MPN (Manufacturer part #), and GTIN (Global Train ID #, e.g., UPC or EAN). The product record in AC7 already supports Brand & MPN fields but does not support a GTIN field. Amazon is moving in the same direction.

Does AbleCommerce plan to add a GTIN field and revise the Google feed to include it? We are in the process of upgrading our store from Able5 to Able7. I am aware we can customize the fields and feeds. I'm just wondering if we have to, or if AbleCommerce plans to do this.

Google feed announcement 110403.pdf

[DelectablyYoursDecor]

I have seen this question posted a couple of time yet no answer. I have sent the same question in on a service ticket and have not gotten an answer. Can someone please let us know if AbleCommerce will be supporting the new Google feed requirements? If not, does anyone have a custom feed mod that will fulfill the requirements?

Thank you very much for your assistance.

[aaron8340]

Hi, I am also scrambling for an answer to this. My business has seen a marked decrease in sales for this month because of the changes in the feed requirements. Able please advise as to where we would place the UPC within the system.

[jmestep]

Mazhar had said that the datafeed outputs the sku in the UPC field, but that hasn't worked for me. It could be that it does it only if the sku is numeric, so you would have to put the UPC into the sku field to verify.
Web2Market has a custom Googlebase feed plugin that gives you more versatility as far as what data to output into what GB field. You can even select a template field called "UPC" and it will pick up the UPC from there.
If you are interested, you can contact Web2Market- I don't know what the pricing is.

[jmestep]

Web2Market has put this feed on our site for purchase now.
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=15356

[abhs]

hi,

We need this for a purpose where we can include Sales Tax within the Google Base feed, is it possible to do so in this plug-in ? any other way of doing so.

regards,

Abhi

[mikek]

Hello,

You can manually modify the Google Feed Format in all 7.0.x versions, no additional modules or upgrades required. For detailed information
please refer to:

http://resources.drundo.com/post/custom ... merce.aspx

[foodsleuth]

Hello,

You can manually modify the Google Feed Format in all 7.0.x versions, no additional modules or upgrades required. For detailed information
please refer to:

http://resources.drundo.com/post/custom ... merce.aspx

I tried the file feed as shown on the above page and it seems we get a server error on line 154:
Exception information:
Exception type: HttpCompileException
Exception message: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\store.gourmetsleuth.com\App_Code\GoogleBaseCustom.cs(154): error CS1056: Unexpected character '®'

Any suggestions?
Thanks

[dgoranov]

It seems that the code posted on our resource site got changed by the html editor code plugin. Below is the correct RemoveHtmlTags() method code.

Code: Select all

private string RemoveHtmlTags(string text)
        {
            var notags = Regex.Replace(text, "<(.|\n)*?>", String.Empty);
            var sb = new StringBuilder(notags);

            var replaceItems = new[] { """, "&nbsp;" , "&reg;"};

            foreach (var replace in replaceItems)
            {
                sb.Replace(replace, String.Empty);
            }

            return sb.ToString();
        }

[foodsleuth]

Thanks very much; I'll give that a try today!
Barb

[foodsleuth]

Hi, looks like we have a new error now:
Exception information:
Exception type: HttpCompileException
Exception message: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\store.gourmetsleuth.com\App_Code\GoogleBaseCustom.cs(99): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'var' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
Thoughts?