Google & YouTube , 7,721 reviews

Overall rating
4.4
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 value its insightful analytics for strategy optimization and audience expansion. Despite some reported issues with syncing large product volumes, the app's responsive customer support, personalized recommendations, and regular updates are highly praised. It's recognized for effectively boosting sales traffic, followers, and business growth.

Edited August 4, 2020

Can support please get back to me about how to get rid of the active campaign that is left in my shopify admin EVEN AFTER I have deleted the app. No response from app support. I do NOT recommend this app.

Lulu Babe
Australia
5 months using the app
Google LLC replied September 1, 2020

Hey there!

Claire here from Shopify Support. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. I'm really sorry to hear of the struggles you were facing with your campaign.

I would love to talk to you further and better understand the issues you were facing to see what we can do on our end. I will send you an email to open up that line of communication!

Claire - Shopify

October 28, 2022

All my products were dissaproved in Google Merchant Center resulting in suspension for 'misrepresentation' Unable to synch Gtins / no real time stock updates. Don't know how to undo the suspension.

Bebeco
United Kingdom
5 months using the app
Google LLC replied October 31, 2022

Hello,

Jackie here from Shopify. Thanks for taking the time to submit your feedback. We're going to follow up with you over email to open up the lines of communication and see if we can address some of the issues you were having with the app.
Jackie | Shopify

May 24, 2018

Why release this when it's US$ only? It's a joke???

Casebuddy
Australia
5 months using the app
Edited March 20, 2021

i don't know why Google don't approve my products and suspended my acc. I don't know what to do to solve it!
It says: Account suspended due to policy violation: Misrepresentation of self or product (Untrustworthy promotions)
To resolve your suspension, you need to go to Google Merchant Center and contact Google support.

El Greco
Greece
5 months using the app
Google LLC replied April 2, 2021

Hey there,

Robyn here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to share your review of the Google Channel with us. We really appreciate your feedback. I'm sorry to hear of the struggles you are facing with a suspended Merchant Center account. I'm going to look into this and follow up with you in an email to open up the lines of communication here so I can see if I can help you any further.

Robyn | Shopify

February 16, 2019

Worked great to start with, then I get an email that I cannot reply to, and can ask no-one for help about - saying my landing page currency and google shopping feed don't match (using the words "violated policy" - you know what - you're deleted... you want to take my advertising money, and then send me emails like that not offering clear and simple help - FU Google

Plant Essentials
Australia
5 months using the app
Google LLC replied June 6, 2019

Thank you for sharing feedback on our Google Shopping app. Currently the app can only be used to target one region which is determined by your store currency, this could have been the cause of the error you saw. For policy violations, that is determined by Google and is outside the scope of this app, but I understand how frustrating that can be. I’ve followed up with you via email to log your feedback and see if I can provide further information for you! - JP, Shopify Support

August 19, 2020

I like it even I just registered. I wanted to boost my e commerce page. hopefully I am on the right track.

The Saint Night
Malaysia
10 days using the app
October 29, 2020

Very helpful enjoyable experience and very very easy to setup up, was a quick and painless experience

Deran Designerwear
United Kingdom
5 months using the app
April 9, 2019

If you have any other option use it and dump this app. We operate 3 shops here what a waste of my time. Shopify keeps blaming "Google" No its their app. Dare you to use it. I mean if you dont what to sell on Google shopping than its great. Or chase your tail. Pending Pending Pending - Ya goggle it to blame. right ya they dont know anything about indexing. I have weeks of support email. Just wait they say. PENDING PENDING

Specialopstools.com
United States
5 months using the app
Google LLC replied June 3, 2019

Thank you for sharing your feedback on the Google Shopping app. We work hard to improve our app functionality, so I’ve sent out to an email to you and hope to hear more of your thoughts soon. - JP, Shopify Support

April 30, 2020

I will be using this app to promote my online store. I hope all goes well and it's not at all complicated so thanks for that

Desire Roses store
United States
10 days using the app
Edited December 5, 2019

Update 12/5/2019: Shopify support reached out to me directly after I posted this review. They did a complimentary review of my setup and let me know that everything was set correctly on my end. They said it takes 14 full days for Google to "learn" your products and to figure out the best placement for conversions. Seeing no activity during this period is normal.

We are now 21 days into the campaign and we're starting to see activity from it (sessions, adds to cart, etc). It appears that it was working correctly this whole time which really goes to emphasise the importance of improving the user interface. I made a few suggestions to the support that reached out to me and he said he would pass them on to the developers. I really hope they do because this is a valuable marketing channel and could be a great tool if it were more user friendly.

For example, there is nothing telling the user that this learning period is underway. It just says "active" and "running" which is not accurate. Adding to the frustration is the fact that you have to dedicate a portion of your marketing budget to it- In my case $5/day (or $150/mo) which is not a small amount.

I am updating this review from 1 star to 3 stars because it does work.. The user interface is just severely lacking.

Original review:
I really hate leaving negative reviews but I think this app needs to be completely overhauled. I fumbled through the setup and after some trial and error got most of my products to get accepted by google (48 out of 51). After this, I tried setting up a paid campaign with a starting budget of $5 a day. The campaign has been "active" and apparently running since November 14th and in these 7 days, there has been zero activity and I'm honestly not even sure if they're actually running. I have had really good success on Google adwords campaigns as well as Facebook campaigns but really zero activity in 7 days? It seems like something is wrong with the campaign but there is no way for me to diagnose it inside the app. Everything just says active, accepted, and running. This app lacks intuitiveness and navigating through the setup and maintenance is very cumbersome. Most of these positive reviews look fake if you read through them, so I'm not sure if the developers even care to improve it. Sad because this would be a great marketing tool if it worked!

Alpine Rings
United States
9 months using the app
Google LLC replied November 21, 2019

Hey there! Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. Google Smart Shopping campaigns that are created within the Shopify admin require up to 15 days for Google to learn and optimize your products and audience. Once Google optimizes what will work best for your business, this is when you will most likely start to see results. This can be found in our handy help doc as well (https://bit.ly/35qB8HE). I'll follow up with you via email to provide some more insight and tips on this and so we can continue our conversation there. I'm happy to assist and look forward to working with you.
Jonathan - Shopify Support