Google & YouTube

This is the first time I have ever taken the time to write a review but the service, specifically, the lack of service of I have received from Google is astonishing. My story begins a few weeks ago when I began a PMAX campaign to advertise my company. Granted, these types of campaigns can take weeks to months to fully optimize. Completely understandable since it uses AI to adjust your bidding/targeting. In one week, I had spent $700 to gather data/show ads. In addition, my products were uploaded to the Google Merchant center as Google/Shopify HEAVILY push you to do this. I even began a PMAX campaign for the Google Merchant center as I had read this may be better suited to the products I was selling. This is where EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING went wrong. After two days of running the Merchant Center PMAX campaign in addition to my other campaigns, I received the dreaded "Misrepresentation" warning on my account. Since I am new to Google ads, I didn't think this would be a big deal and didn't fully understand the consequences of having this stamped on your account. I made adjustments to the site to try and be compliant and submitted the site to be reviewed several times until I was put on a cool down period. Again, I didn't fully understand what was happening and thought it would be something that could be easily fixed. That couldn't be further from the truth. After two weeks of calling/emailing Google almost DAILY pulling my hair out trying to get back into their good graces, I was met with NOTHING but "We cannot share the details of why your merchant center has misrepresentation listed, keep trying to fix it, you'll figure it out." No joke, this went on for about two weeks to the point I was going to pay $1800 for an outside company to fix my misrepresentation suspension. That is, until I submitted a question to the forum since Google does not provide you with a reason your account is suspended. I was told because my items are POD, I cannot list them in the store. Google does not specifically list POD and instead states, "Items must be in stock to ship". The items in the POD store are "in stock" and would show "out of stock" if they were unavailable. There is conflicting information from Google forum "experts" as I found some posts that stated POD is allowed and some that say they are not allowed. The problem goes beyond this as my Google Ads account was CONNECTED to the merchant center. Because the Merchant Center was suspended, my Google Ads was suspended as well. The only way to reinstate my Google Ads is to get the Merchant Center reinstated which is IMPOSSIBLE since Google doesn't allow POD in their Merchant Center apparently even though Google Ads DOES allow POD products to be advertised. Do you see where I am beyond upset? I spend $700 for a week of ads to be displayed to have the rug pulled out from under me and have both accounts suspended. I can't tell you the relief I feel that I no longer am doing business with Google Ads and their horrible, nonexistent customer service. You would think paying $700 for a week worth of ads would be enough to get some sort of response or customer service from Google. Its not. This is your warning, if you have a POD service or similar business structure, be very careful and do not upload your products to the Merchant Center even though Google will encourage you to do. You will be put into a doom loop essentially with no way out. I learned my lesson $700 later. You've been warned.

Google expects prices inc tax, this app can't cope if your store uses tax exclusive pricing. Used to work, has been "improved" by Shopify.

this app us useless and does not work. I deleted the old app and added this app but this is by far the worst mistake!

Google sucks. I can not advertise my brand which I am an authorized dealer, have the brand name in my URL, or do anything that would actually help people searching for the brand I sell to find me on google shopping ads. I tried to send them the contact information for them to verify that I am an authorized dealer, but they keep telling me I am misrepresenting and making a false claim about my relationship with the company I have a contract with to sell their products. Most attorneys would call this Tortious interference, so it looks like my next step is a lawsuit against Google for interference with my contract to sell a name brand, and for driving customers to their protected big store dealers that pay them thousands of dollars to keep small businesses as mine suppressed.

I really don't understand this app. They banned my account for misrepresentation, even though I only dropshipped the item. I've addressed the issues they raised and sent numerous emails, but when you attempt to reach customer support, it's impossible. I've got the Google merchant, but I'm unsure of what to do next. This app isn't suitable for beginners because a simple mistake can result in account suspension, with no way to rectify it. Considering Google's reputation, I expected more user-friendly and customer-oriented services.

This is a review which should go to the creators of this app and also to Google Merchant support and Google Ads account. I have two online stores and when I installed the Google channel app, I saw my products approved for probably 10 minutes and then they were disapproved. The way it works is that I am not provided an exact problem, rather taken to a policy which states dozens of potential issues and I should go and figure out which one exactly I am breaking per each product. It is impossible to work like that. I got also my both accounts suspended, one for misinterpretation, the other one for broken checkout experience. Why don't you warn before suspending and put a yellow banner on the top of the account stating what the issue is exactly and if not resolved after an x number of days, suspend an account? I have been waiting for days for the account to be reviewed, when reviewed, I am getting nearly the same message and I am in a vicious circle not able to resolve the issue and make the website searchable in Google. Disappointing to say the least!

Our products are unique and this is indicated by default in Shopify Google Fields. Yet on the Merchant centre all our products are disapproved because - wait for it - they are unique and don't have GTIN etc. The fix, that we mark them as custom/unique! To repeat - we have already done this! Staggeringly incompetent and farical by Google.

Terrible for custom products. Our store has over 5000 custom products and due to there being no GTIN / Barcode, the products are being rejected by Google Merchant Center. Shopify's solutions is to MANUALLY SET all 5000+ products as 'Custom Products' in the backend. That's an awful solution to integrating with Google Merchant Center and is going to force us to look for third-party solutions.

My products have taken more than 5 days to get approved , whats going on, they are still pending like seriously?

Rien ne fonction mais produits ne sont même pas en attente de validation... J'ai beau installer à nouveau mais rien ne se passe !
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Alors qu'il y'a 2 mois c'était parfait...