Google & YouTube , 7,821 reviews

Overall rating
4.5
Counts per rating level
  • 69% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 12% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 3% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 2% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 13% of ratings are 1 stars
What merchants think

Feedback submitted

Merchants appreciate this app for its user-friendly interface, easy setup, and smooth integration with Google Shopping and YouTube ads. They praise its automatic product updates, personalized recommendations, and quick search results. The app's insightful analytics are valued for optimizing strategies and boosting sales. Merchants also commend the responsive customer support and frequent updates.

August 13, 2023

Oh my god. What a struggle this app is. You might think that an app built by Google would be the perfect solution for including Google ads and google merchant account.

The reality is: it’s the worst solution. Attribution for ads is the worst our store has ever seen. Merchant account sync is the only useful thing about this. There is no fixing any of the Google ads or Google analytics problems. Their support policy is basically “screw you”.

Flexxline
United States
Almost 4 years using the app
Google LLC replied August 15, 2023

Hi there and thank you for the feedback. Sorry to hear you are having issues with attribution tracking on the Google & YouTube App. There are a number of reasons why GA4 conversion or attribution tracking may differ from other dashboards such as UA or Shopify analytics. You can read more about them here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/13672281

We have noted your feedback around attribution and support experience and will share it with the relevant teams. Thank you again.

June 5, 2023

No support or any details whom to contact. Need someone to get back to me, this thing has created 3 tags that I do not recognize and have no Idea how to remove them. Deleting the app does nothing.

Zellart Canvas Prints
Cyprus
Over 1 year using the app
Google LLC replied June 5, 2023

Hi there! Sorry to hear you’re having an issue with the app. We’re going to contact you privately to look into this a little bit more and work through the tagging issues. Thank you for your patience - we look forward to getting you up and running.

January 30, 2024

ショピファイですが、商品ページにテキストをコピー&ペーストで文字を貼り付けしますが、何度試しても日本語変換がうまくいきません。

参拝ショップ
Japan
3 months using the app
Google LLC replied February 1, 2024

Thank you for leaving a review. We did take a look at your account and it looks like all your offers are currently showing. If you're still having this issue, can you please contact our support team so we can get more details in order to troubleshoot. You can contact them at anytime here: https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/shopify_3p_support_app

June 21, 2023

We use Google & Youtube app to track data for Google Analytics 4, but it does not provide correct conversions and revenue. GA4 shows only about half the revenue of shopify sales. I can understand that the data of the two cannot be exactly the same, but the current data is too different, which proves that the data is abnormal and we cannot accept it. Is there a way to calibrate the data?

True Image Tech
United States
About 2 years using the app
Google LLC replied June 21, 2023

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We are sorry to see you are encountering possible data issues. We will reach out directly to get more information and see if we can help get this resolved.

October 25, 2023

This is the worst experience I've ever had with this app, and caused my account to be suspended integrating shopify's products. I've spent hours trying to fix issues. I can't get any live help. At least on the merchant account, it could update progress, but it doesn't, just take you around in circles. Even when adding sku's on manage my account it still says incorrect value. Horrible situation.

The Everything Creative Store
United States
15 days using the app
Google LLC replied October 30, 2023

Hello there and thank you for leaving the review and feedback. We are sorry to hear this has been a cause of frustration for you. Google's policies are in place to protect merchants and consumers. If you would like to learn more about this particular policy and how you can request a re-review, please visit: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6150127?hl=en&sjid=15068795589301841412-NA

For further questions or help with this, feel free to reach out to our support team at this link: https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/shopify_3p_support_app

September 1, 2023

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.

Max's Case Co.
United States
About 2 months using the app
Google LLC replied September 5, 2023

Hello and thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback. I am sorry that this has been a frustrating experience for you - this was certainly not our intention. I did pull up your account and was not seeing any suspension. It is possible that some merchants have multiple accounts, though. In order to best help you, please contact support through this link where we have a dedicated team of Shopify-trained agents on standby: https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/shopify_3p_support_app

Edited November 26, 2023

It's a pain to set up, it doesn't sync intelligently, there's no guidance on how to set it up, it keeps quacking against the policy, and there's no details or indication of what needs to be changed~~~

Sincecam
Hong Kong SAR
About 1 year using the app
June 30, 2023

The app still doesnt gives me accurate data in GA4. In UA i get half of the income than the actual, but it would be okay if the GA4 would be correct, but the GA4 gives me even less (1/3 of the actual income)

Kerámia Otthon Vintage lakberendezés
Hungary
Over 4 years using the app
Google LLC replied June 30, 2023

Hi there, thank you for the feedback regarding GA4. I wanted to share this article which shares some reasons for differences between GA4 vs UA: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/13672281

We will also reach out directly as well to further assist you with you this.

June 12, 2023

Trying to figure out google ads and why they keep suspending my ads accounts and having issues with my listings has gone on for months. We've paid people, spoken to their 'help' desk so many times it's absurd. they should have videos step=by-step on how to set up successful merchant centers and ad accounts. Now I have 2 suspended ads accounts and merchant accounts with issues that we keep fixing and then get suspended. It's terrible.

BathSlut
United States
Almost 2 years using the app
Google LLC replied June 12, 2023

Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear this has been a source of frustration. Google's policies are in place to protect merchants and consumers. If you would like to learn more about this particular policy and how you can request a re-review, please visit: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/13447091?hl=en&ref_topic=13402337&sjid=15119101867569295281-NA

If you would like further help trying to resolve these issues, don't hesitate to contact us at: https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/shopify_3p_support_app

July 31, 2023

Was notified after a few days my shop was suspended due to website needs improvement. After contacting them by email. I have not receive any instructions on how to fix the problem or where in the website it needs improvement in.

Jolissa Boutique LLC
United States
About 1 year using the app
Google LLC replied August 1, 2023

Hi there and thank you for leaving this feedback. We apologize for any frustrations you have encountered around this. In case you haven't already seen the Help Center around the "Website Needs Improvement" policy you can find it here: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/10740889?hl=en&sjid=7744043795859814750-NA

It highlights reasons that may cause this policy enforcement. If you feel that you have resolved the issues or it is being applied in error, you can request a review (instructions on how to do so are in the article above).

One thing we noticed was on the product page for your Café con Bochince (Gossip with coffee) Candle under the "Add to Cart" button there appears to be a broken text/link from your Shopify theme. You will want to resolve that on that page and others.

Shopify support can provide help around editing your theme but if you still have other quesitons around this policy or anything else app-related, please contact our support team: https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/shopify_3p_support_app

Thank you again for the review and feedback.