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IMPORTANT: This module is currently around 98% compliant with current (September 22nd 2011) Google Merchant requirements.
To put it simply, this module exports your entire product list into a Google-Merchant/GoogleBase/Froogle friendly format using a static filename (instead of the dynamic one created in the admin version) so you can tell Google to grab this regularly.
Basic Product Information
Supported: ID, Title, Description, Google product category, Product type, Link, Image link, Condition
Pending: Additional Image Link
* Supported as custom fields with appropriate labels (NOT as Variation values! - see Variations information below)
^ Supported as either using SKU/Stock Code field information or a custom field with label "mpn"
** Unsupported as data is unavailable within the Interspire Cart code and not required by Google Merchant
The current Interspire Shopping Cart system lacks critical functionality to allow the use of Variations as part of Google Merchant product feeds. These include:
These are considerable hurdles to overcome and will require major code changes to the existing Interspire code to acheive so support for this particular feature is currently unknown
Beta support now available version 6.0.11 - 6.1.8
Support for earlier versions may be added depending on demand and/or the amount of work required to retro-fix the Interspire code to provide the necessary information.
(Version compatibility changed following Google Merchant requirements changes for tax and google product type)
This module resolves many of these requirements as well as adds a number of additional features/fields.
Numerous updates, fixes and improvements have been added in response to user requirements, over the past 3 months alone so it's very much a work in progress, especially with the continued policy changes instigated by Google.
This module resolves one of the core problems caused by very large numbers of products. Issues such as memory_limits or php timeouts meant that successfully generating a feed from stores with these volumes, is (up to, and including, ISC version 6.1.6) impossible.
Not anymore!
You can follow development, "quick and dirty" bug fixes, updates and all things relating to this module on this forum discussion thread
Posted by Kwickargo.com on 14th Dec 2011
Just like one of you that are reading this, I too had multiple problems with Interspire Shopping Cart and its antiquated ways of sending Froogle Feeds, but after downloading this module and its updates(very important!) I now have a great functioning feed to Google.
I encourage those of you who may be sitting on the fence, with a non-functioning ISC Google feed, and losing money each day, to go ahead and purchase this module. You won't be unhappy anymore! This guy (Martin) has fixed completely what the folks at Interspire won't do, and if they do, drag their feet about it.
Go ahead and buy-it will fix it!!!!
Posted by Treasure Island Sweets Ltd on 28th Nov 2011
Seeing Interspire take forever to fix anything this add-on is invaluable and is updated regularly to comply with google merchant centre / product feed. Google has a habit of updating its requirements at short notice and this add-on is always updated quickly.
Works very well for out UK based store. Only think stopping it getting a five star review is the lack of support for product options but that is a limitation of the Interspire code not the snail solutions add-on. Well worth every penny.
Posted by Unknown on 12th Nov 2011
Everything was working fine until a couple days ago when the fee stopped working because the "expiration date" is not in advance. I am not sure where it is pulling the expiration date from to correct this.
Note: This issue is a common problem when the feed generation has not been setup using CRON
Posted by Jack on 5th Nov 2011
This mod has helped us a lot. It has reduced the amount of time we have to spend uploading, as it's automated. This has allowed us to submit 3 feeds a day (UK, Australia and USA). Just about all features available from Google are there in this mod and Martin has done a great job at going way way beyond what Interspire have included in their release.
Recommended!
Posted by Brandeline on 16th Jun 2011
A very nice add-on for the Interspire cart which fills a definite gap in the stock functionality. Responses to running problems on my windows system were swift, and effective. It works very well and reduced the errors on my Google base feed upload to next to nothing, where the original Interspire feed code was no longer compliant with the changing Google specs. Excellent work and work the money.
Posted by Antony Salem on 19th May 2011
As a Interspire site owner with a large product database (over 35,000 products), the “out of the box” Google product feed module supplied by Interspire starts to creak under a hefty product set such as ours. The feed would take a number of hours to generate and more often than not, a time out would occur, resulting a lot of hair pulling and time wasted.
This coupled with Google’s ongoing feed specification changes led to us looking for an alternative solution to ensure we retained our presence within the Google Products marketplace.
Having discovered the SnailSolutions Google Merchant Feed module, it seemed a no brainer but to give it a shot… and am I glad that I did!
With an extensive and rather complex product catalogue, teething problems weren’t unexpected. The support received was simply outstanding. Martin at Snail Solutions, painstakingly refined and reworked the module code to accommodate stores with large a product set such as ourselves, whilst at the same time enhancing it further to accommodate the latest changes announced by Google.
Not only does the SnailSolutions Google Merchant Product Feed module create multi market feeds and ensure compliance with the latest Google Base requirements, but it also does it in lightening quick time. In our case, both UK and US feeds are generated in a third of the time it took the default Interspire module to create a single feed.
I cannot recommend this module and the SnailSolutions support highly enough. If you are looking to bring more visitors to your site and/or expand into new markets, this is an essential purchase for any Interspire site owner.