Buckle Up with Google Shopping: How to export an OpenCart Product Feed? OpenCart is one of the easier platforms for doing an eCommerce business. It shows a huge space for flexibility and extensions. That is why OpenCart is followed by a very large community. But, out of these a large proportion still have difficulties in manually exporting their products feed to Google Shopping. Keeping this issue in mind, a number of developers have already developed some tools and extensions to facilitate the manual feeding of products with automatic feeding. OpenCart Google shopping plugin is a similar extension which makes the job pretty easier and also reduces the time you waste in the manual feeding of products to Google shopping.
OpenCart Google shopping extension is one of the best extensions for this platform which is capable of listing your products automatically on Google Shopping. You can feed your products by enabling an XML Product feed that will allow Google to automatically show your listed products on its website. Let's learn about some easy steps that you can follow to get yourself visible on Google’s channel. Step 1: Enable the product feed in OpenCart A. Enable the products field by going to- admin panel >extensions> product feeds> Google Base > edit. B. In the box of URL replace the default URL with “http://www.yourwebsitename.com/googlebase.xml” C.
Now click SAVE to store this setting.
D. You can test this URL by copying and pasting in your browser. If you do not see any error message then you are good to go. You can continue with next step now. Step 2: Tell Google about your product feed A. If you already have an account in “Google Merchant Center", continue with
further steps. Otherwise, first of all, you need to create an account on Google merchant center. B. Now, sign in to your Merchant account. C. After you sign in click on the link for data feeds given there. D. Now you are directed to a page where you can find a CTA button saying “ register a new data feed”. E. Fill in the fields with the respective details and save it as a target file “googlebase.xml” F. Now, save your feed and go back to the link for data feeds. G. There is a column for upload where you have to click the button "Create next” to the feed your data. If you want to modify the default schedule then click “Edit”. H. Provide your own schedule with desired frequency and location(directory) of feeds. I. Click on Save changes to complete your process of feeding. Remember that it will take some days to start your products becoming visible on Google shopping. So, there is a need of some patience in the entire process. Using OpenCart Google shopping extension is basically a great idea that will manage your products feeds on Google shopping automatically. Note that you need to check if your products are accepted or getting visible on Google? Carefully read the Google shopping policies and try not to avoid these rules otherwise, it might act as a catalyst to degrade your online ranking on Google's search results too.