How can you manage the Product feeds on Google shopping on an OpenCart site?
Google shopping is the name in eCommerce market which does not require any introduction. A large number of online shopping sites are flourishing already by integrating their store with Google shopping. Due to its complications and complexity to feed the products, Google shopping remains a dream for some store owners with less or no technical expertise who do not have any idea about how to manage the products here. For an OpenCart site, the major complication of the Google product feed and product management can be diminished to a certain extent so that even the nontechnical persons can take advantage of it. An OpenCart Google shopping module can help you achieve it. An OpenCart Google shopping module is an OpenCart extension that provides a user-friendly interface at the back end to manage any number of product feeds on the Google shopping platform. Such kind of OpenCart Modules is used to create an XML file of product feeds that can be uploaded to the Google shopping platform in easier steps. These extensions provide a central location at the OpenCart admin panel to create a ready-made upload file to be feed on the Google shopping. What does an OpenCart Google shopping module do to minimize the efforts?
These modules install in the OpenCart CMS like any other OpenCart extension/module. After Installation and some initial configuration, a control panel would be ready to use for creating a upload file for Google shopping. Steps to create an upload document1. Install Google Categories- For installing the Google Categories, you have to click on “Install Google shopping categories”. it is a one-time process to install Google categories to your system. After you complete the installation, it will automatically redirect you to a page something like the shown below:
2. Map your category with Google’s- Now, using this interface, Select your store category and then select the Google Shopping category from the two steps by which you want to map your store category with the Google’s. Mapping Result would be shown in Mapping Result. 3. Map other attribute and prices- Similarly, you can Map your other attributes and features with the Google’s in the next step.For example, you can map the tax, price,
shipping etc. If the suitable attribute is not found in the list, you can even create your own attributes and map it. 4.
Review the feed and finalize it for final submission- You can Review the feed
summary in this step and also edit it if you want to. After finalizing the feed, the next step is to final submit it. 5. Submit it- The final submission can be done in two ways. It can be done manually on the spot or you can set your Cron to feed the product at a certain time.
If you
select the manual submission, A document will be provided which can be submitted to Google Shopping manually by yourself. There is also an option to Feed from the same interface itself. Clicking this option will need you to enter the feed URL of your Google shopping. This is a quite useful module which can save a lot of time that are wasted in preparing the files for uploading to the Google shopping. Google shopping product management can be made way simpler with this OpenCart module.