Google Shopping in 16.01

[Air-Tech]

We would have to FTP to the site, retrieve it, edit, send it back - and do that every time we upload! What a pain !!

I did say "temporary workaround".....

[rookers]

Hi - yes, Thanks Air-Tec - I am frustrated at Sellerdeck, not your helpful reply.

Here is the latest - so perhaps it is not going to be so temporary as they are basically says "tough":

FROMM SELLERDECK:
Development have read your last comment and have advised that the workaround provided is one of two workarounds we can offer you currently.

The other was to remove shipping classes that would result in Google feed identifying them as the lowest shipping cost.

I realise this is not ideal for your operations however this was the original design for v16 Google shopping feed.
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So basically their solution is:

Work-around one involves making a product that costs 3.50 to send, FREE.
Work-around two involves removing our well-used Collect-From-Store feature.

I am sorry, I do not see how either of these are acceptable work-arounds.

I do not care that this falls within the “Design” for v16 google shopping feed. I didn’t design it and yet I am forced to use this obviously buggy implementation. The design is obviously completely flawed and needs changing.

[guccij]

I am so disappointed with this "innovation" for v16. I've fiddled around with it so much that my head is exploding as is my temper. Why make it so complicated? Why can I only get one product to be submitted when I have the variables in place and filled? My shopping feed is utterly trashed when it had worked 100% successfully on v14. Thanks a bunch Sellerdeck.

[guccij]

Here's the latest error:

"Feed Errors

XML formatting error1 error.
Our system encountered an error when processing your data feed. Learn more
Examples:
Line No. Column No.
1
3,073"

How can there be an error like that when the feed is generated by the bloody software?

[EdHarrison]

I gave up and used Andy at codepath - his catalog order export is simple (I'm clueless) and totally configurable.

[Dealec]

Do you have a copy of the XML file?
I virtually had to rewrite the layout to make it work the way i needed.

[Dealec]

Here's the latest error:

"Feed Errors

XML formatting error1 error.
Our system encountered an error when processing your data feed. Learn more
Examples:
Line No. Column No.
1
3,073"

How can there be an error like that when the feed is generated by the bloody software?

That error looks like you might be missing a closing tag somewhere, probably at the end of the product data.

[guccij]

That error looks like you might be missing a closing tag somewhere, probably at the end of the product data.

Agreed - but this should not happen in an out of the box layout. I'm damned if I should spend time fixing it.

[Dealec]

Agreed, the change without warning was the most annoying part.

[Jan]

I guess the XML is easily to change / fix, which allows Sellerdeck customers to keep up with the changes that Google keep on making to their requirements.

[guccij]

Update: the feed works on 16.0.2