Creating a Product Data Feed Using Plytix’s Google Shopping Template

Learn how to configure a Product Data Specification XML Feed with Plytix’s Google Shopping Channel

Through Plytix’s Google Shopping channel, you can set up a Google Merchant Center (GMC) feed to send data from Plytix to Google Shopping. In this article, you will learn how to create your primary product data for GMC.

 

Creating your Google Shopping Channel

Channel Overview

Process Log

Products

Mapping

Processing your Channel

 

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Creating your Google Shopping Channel

 

1. To access Plytix’s Google Shopping channel, click on the Channels tab. Add a name to your channel. Then, under “Channel Type,” select the Google Shopping Channel.
2. Fill in your store details information: your store title, store link, and a description. You can also change these details later under the “Settings” tab. 
   

3. Click “Add channel”

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Channel Overview

 

After adding your Google Shopping channel, you will get to your channel detail page. 

Note: You can learn more about creating and managing channels here. 

In your Google Shopping channel, you will find the following tabs:

• Process Log
• Products
• Mapping
• Settings 

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Process Log

Before you process your channel for the first time, this tab will be the Instructions tab, where you can find general information about your channel and the step-by-step to process it.

After your channel has been processed, this tab will automatically change to become your “Process Log”.

In this tab you can find:

• The date and time your channel started and finished processing
• The status of each processing
• The number of products that were processed
• The result — whether your channel was successfully processed or failed

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Products

This is where you can add your preferred Product List for your channel. You can learn more about creating and managing Product Lists here. 

 

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Mapping

Go to “Mapping” to match your Plytix attributes to the Google Shopping fields. In the “Mapping” tab, you will find two sections:

• Required fields
• Optional fields

Required fields: 

These are the fields that are required for a main Google Merchant Center feed.

Following Plytix’s template, you can directly map the required fields with existing attributes in your PIM, or create computed attributes that will only apply to your channel.

 

Optional fields:

Beyond the required fields, you can also map optional fields with existing attributes or create computed attributes for your channel. Those are fields that are not required for you to be able to process your channel.  

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Settings

In the “Settings” tab, you can manage the following information:

• Store Details: Here you can modify your store Title, Link, and Description (which you entered during the Channel creation). 
  
  

• File: You can customize how your file will be named when you download it. You can also choose to add a timestamp to the file name for reference.

• Connections: If you have a FTP or Dropbox account, you can send a copy of your GMC file. To do so, click “+ Create a connection,” to establish an FTP/SFTP or Dropbox connection.  
• Scheduling: You can choose to set up a periodic processing for your feed if you wish to have your channel processed automatically at a specific set time. 

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Processing your channel

To process your feed, you will follow the same steps you would for another channel type (click here to learn more about processing a channel in Plytix).

To process your GMC feed:

1. Add a product list (we recommend using a completeness attribute to manage which products are ready to be sent to your Google Shopping account!)
2. While Plytix’s Google Shopping channel already includes a list of required fields for a product data specification feed, additional fields may be required depending on what kind of products you are managing and what country you are selling them to. We recommend checking the Google documentation for specifications on which attributes are required for your product type and according to each country.
3. After you have mapped your attributes, click “Process now” or set up scheduled processing in the Settings tab. 

4. Once your channel has been processed, you will have access to your feed URL under your channel name. Copy your feed URL and paste it into your GMC account.

 

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What's next?

• Learn how to generate a backup of your Plytix data
• Learn how to upload a CSV template into a CSV or XML channel
• Learn how to manage different channels in Plytix

 

 

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