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Wednesday, November 24, Paid gone free Premium Content. We follow a strict honesty policy. However, to fund our work, we use affiliate advertising links on this blog. Microsoft vs Google Workspace formerly G Suite — which is best? This is a question that many businesses, particularly startups, have a lot of trouble answering. Microsoft also provides a comprehensive range of desktop applications — programs that you install on your computer, rather than using online. The pricing structure for Google Workspace and Microsoft differs by country, but is broadly comparable from one territory to another.
Choosing a Google Workspace plan is fairly straightforward. The pricing options for Microsoft are considerably more complicated, because there are home, business, enterprise, government, non-profit and education versions available — and within these, a lot of sub-versions! There are four plans to consider:. You can compare all the business plans here. You can compare all the enterprise plans here.
To add insult to injury, Google also counts emails as taking up space in this 30GB limit. With these Google Workspace plans, you get 2TB or 5TB storage respectively, which is extremely useful to any business that has a need to store a large quantity of files in the cloud. As for Google Workspace, there are several tiers of additional data storage purchase options.
So, depending on how much storage you need for particular users, you may find it works out cheaper to simply upgrade all your Google Workspace users to a plan featuring more storage than to buy more of it. Technically, you can use any email program you like to access your Google Workspace or Microsoft mail, but the default apps provided are Gmail and Outlook respectively. Also, given the popularity of Gmail, there is a large range of third-party apps available for it which add useful functionality to proceedings.
Accordingly, you may find yourself wanting to use Gmail in conjunction with a desktop email program — for example the excellent and free Thunderbird , or, whisper it, Outlook. And speaking of which, getting your hands on Outlook is a key selling point of Microsoft On most plans you get access to two versions of Outlook: an browser-based version, which is okay, but — mail sorting functionality aside — Gmail probably betters in most respects; and a desktop version, which is feature rich and provides a lot of flexibility when it comes to how you sort, group, label and generally manage your email.
Here is where things get pretty interesting, and where a LOT of potential users of and Google Workspace will be tempted to go for Microsoft With most of the plans you get all the desktop versions of the Microsoft products as well as the cloud-based ones. Despite this being the age of cloud computing, a huge number of businesses still send each other files created locally using these applications, so there is a strong argument for having desktop versions of all the above available.
Having the desktop versions installed also allows your team to work more easily with these file formats. Another argument in favour of having the MS applications installed in your organization boils down to functionality. How much of a big deal this is for you will depend on the nature of your business.
The other thing to remember about the Microsoft desktop applications is that as nice as they are, and as familiar with them as your team may be, they have to be installed locally. Conversely, if you create a working environment where your organisation only uses browser-based applications that save documents to the cloud, then your data is arguably more secure so long as you have backup procedures in place and your team are more likely to make fuller use of collaboration features.
So you could argue that the Google apps — due to their cloud-only nature — are likelier to nudge people in this direction. If you are tempted by the unlimited cloud storage provided by Google Workspace, but want to save Word documents in it, you could buy the offline versions of the Microsoft applications that you use regularly, and save files created in them to your Google Drive.
That said, you would be closing down a lot of real-time collaboration possibilities by working in this fashion, and making life more expensive. We can help you set up or migrate to both Google Workspace and Microsoft Contact us today to find out more about how we can arrange a professional, risk-free installation of these two leading cloud productivity suites.
Or find out more about our services: Microsoft setup and migration Google Workspace setup and migration. Microsoft and Google Workspace both offer a set of web-based applications which have sometimes rough equivalents in both product suites, namely:. These are broad equivalents, in that their feature set is not exactly going to match the corresponding app. This app also makes it easy to share comments on a video, tag timecodes in comments and add descriptions that refer to specific points in a video.
Microsoft Sway is a new online tool for presentations, newsletters and other communications. The video below outlines the basic concept. We now offer both Google Workspace and Microsoft setup and migration services, which will get your business set up on either of these platforms quickly and with a minimum of fuss.
We can set you up from scratch, or migrate all your existing calendars and email across in a well-planned, hassle-free migration. Contact us now to find out how we can help.
A huge advantage of working in the cloud is the collaboration possibilities it opens up. Both Google Workspace and Microsoft make this sort of online collaboration straightforward using their online apps. You can try both Google Workspace and Microsoft for free 14 days in the case of Google Workspace, 1 month in the case of Microsoft This is a good, hands-on, way to establish which of these platforms best meets your needs.
Microsoft is more generous when it comes to participant limits on video calls though: you can have 1, participants in a business call and up to 10, if hosting a live event. Google now offers a separate add-on to Google Workspace, however, Google Voice , which is worth looking if telecommunications features are a key requirement. Both Microsoft and Google Workspace provide desktop apps for syncing local data with the cloud and vice versa.
There are currently three apps available for this purpose:. These apps allow you to save a file in the cloud which then appears locally — or vice versa. This is handy for when you want to work on documents offline, or want to back up or upload local files to your cloud storage the downside of this is that it makes your data less secure — if your laptop gets stolen for example, so does your data.
Some PDF creating and note-taking facilities are also included as features. This app has got a particularly good response from its users, scoring 4. There are various features that are available on certain Google Workspace and Microsoft plans that will be of relevance to users with advanced requirements.
You can avail of some advanced functionality a bit cheaper with Google Workspace. Email support is also offered for both products; and there are various support forums available for them both too. So which is easier to use, Google Workspace or Microsoft ? Which product comes with the steeper learning curve? As with much else in this comparison, the fairest answer unfortunately! You could also argue however that the simpler, more stripped-back productivity apps bundled with Google Workspace generate a gentler learning curve for users who are new to online collaboration.
In terms of user interfaces, the Google apps feel less cluttered than those bundled with Microsoft , simply because they are not as feature packed. My Google document is always saved to the cloud and I can pick up where I left off on it at any point, on any device. However Microsoft is unquestionably much better than Google Workspace — as you might expect — for editing MS Office documents and saving them without formatting problems as discussed above, although you can save to MS Office format using Google Workspace, you can often end up with formatting headaches.
Ultimately I think both products are fairly straightforward to use. If editing MS Office files is going to be a big part of your job, then Microsoft will feel a lot more familiar and present less of a learning curve; if facilitating internal collaboration effectively is more the concern, then Google Workspace is arguably a slightly better bet.
The answer is: yes. This will allow you to access and edit Google documents, sheets and slides offline; any changes you make to them will be synced to the cloud when you reconnect to the Internet. With regard to Gmail, you can use it offline so long as you are using Chrome and have enabled offline mail. With Microsoft , the best way to work offline on a desktop computer is by using the standard desktop applications in conjunction with the desktop version of OneDrive.
If you are not happy with the functionality provided by the Google Workspace apps and Microsoft , there are two ways you can extend the functionality of both suites of products. Lots of free and paid-for apps are available for both systems. The other way to enhance the functionality of both products is to code something yourself. If you have the know-how, you can use the Microsoft or Google APIs application program interfaces to add a bespoke piece of functionality to your chosen set of productivity tools.
The below video gives a brief introduction to the tool. Ultimately, Microsoft and Google Workspace are both excellent tools for managing the productivity side of your business, with Microsoft arguably winning on product features, and Google Workspace winning when it comes to making collaboration easy.
Google Workspace is also slightly more generously priced when it comes to file storage so long as you are not on its entry level plan. For me, I would probably focus on six key areas in making the final decision between the tools:. If you work in an organisation that absolutely has to work with MS Office files regularly — and particularly if you need to use the advanced functionality that MS Office applications provide — then the natural choice is definitely going to be Microsoft Although Google Workspace can be used to produce and edit Microsoft documents, this functionality is limited and you can expect hiccups when you try to edit and save a complex Microsoft document or spreadsheet with a Google Workspace app.
That said, Google Workspace technically allows you to edit both documents produced with Google Workspace and MS Office apps — this is not true of Microsoft So, if you have a client base that works with both Office and Google Workspace files, there may be an advantage in going for Google Workspace so long as your needs are relatively simple on the MS Office formatting front.
If having a serious quantity of cloud storage available is your overriding concern , then Google Workspace is generally the better bet. The working environment that you are hoping to deploy Google Workspace and Microsoft in should also be factored into your final decision. If your organisation uses a wide mix of devices and operating systems, then you could potentially make life easier for your users by opting for Google Workspace, which is designed to run online ideally in a web browser — but apps are available for all the major mobile operating systems.
This is especially true if you intend to use Access and Publisher — these apps are exclusively available to Windows-based users. That said, it is possible to mix and match license types with Microsoft — your organization could use a combination of Business and Enterprise plans, for example.
Hopefully this review has helped clarify your thinking on the Microsoft vs Google Workspace decision! Do leave a comment below if you have any thoughts of your own on the two products, and feel free to share this comparison with others. And make sure you contact us if you are thinking of using Google Workspace or Microsoft in your organisation — we can help arrange a successful setup or migration.
You can try Microsoft for free here. You can try Google Workspace for free here or read more about our Google Workspace setup and migration services. Like Microsoft and Google Workspace, you can use iWork in a browser on any device and collaborate in real time with other users; desktop apps Pages, Numbers and Keynote are also available, but these work with Apple products only.
The good news is that these apps are free — but you will need to potentially pay for iCloud storage so that you can store your files somewhere. Open Office is a well-known open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics and databases. The focus of Dropbox has traditionally about file storage — it was one of the first cloud-based apps that allowed you to store and access files from anywhere.
Got any thoughts or questions on Google Workspace vs Microsoft ? Or on any of the alternatives? Do feel free to leave a comment below! However, an annual commitment is required to avail of this price. The key reason to choose Microsoft over Google Workspace is the inclusion of its desktop apps — most plans give you access to fully installable versions of the classic Microsoft applications Word, Excel, Powerpoint and so on.
These tend to be more feature-rich than the Google equivalents and can be used easily online. The key reason to choose Google Workspace over Microsoft involves interoperability: it lets you edit files created with both Workspace and Both platforms allow you to save your files locally and use apps to edit them.
Microsoft is the more obvious choice for offline working however so long as you are on a plan that lets you install its desktop apps. After graduating from Trinity College Dublin in , Chris went on to advise many businesses and not-for-profit organisations on how to grow their operations via a strong online presence; he now shares his expertise through his articles on the Style Factory website.
Founded in , the Style Factory site provides in-depth, impartial reviews and comparisons of key business apps, and advice on how to grow a business. You can connect personally with Chris via Twitter or LinkedIn. Your email address will not be published. Save my name and email in this browser for the next time I comment. What a great and comprehensive comparison review. I initially toyed with GSuite, but ended up going with a Microsoft business plan. Ironically, though, since moving my PhD to another university, they provide graduate researchers with a GSuite account.
You can of course also get But, it looks like my uni leans more towards GSuite. I am a complete Apple user. So, I have some issues ongoing with conflict issues usually relating to OneDrive and SharePoint between Microsoft and my Mac devices.
Admittedly, Microsoft are pretty quick to get back to me to resolve the issues. But, yes, as annoying issue. Leaving MS Teams has also created a lot of problems for our users now not receiving Teams invites from external customers, they now just appear in Gmail with ics file attached and no ability to respond or add the meeting to Google Calendar. All our users are having to now manually re-create the appointments themselves — and this despite trying various IMAP clients Thunderbird, MacMail, Outlook.
Overall I would say that the user experience on is a lot smoother and offers a much simpler and definitely more familiar style of working. Not for everyone, including myself. Very interesting read, excellent explanation for each product, very much appreciate all your efforts on the article.
Outlook disadvantages: Outlook does not have a dedicated mobile contact app like Google Contacts does. Of course, at a computer in Outlook, updating Outlook contacts is easy and fast; but I am a mobile user with rare access to a real computer. At best the process is klutzy — Microsoft should provide a dedicated mobile contacts app.
Outlook Mobile users cannot add files to Outlook calendar dates — they must do it on a computer only. But on the Google Mobile app, you can easily can add files, images and the like to a calendar date. My preference is having the actual file and images attached to the calendar date; links can be broken too easily otherwise. Google Drive mobile does not display folder size or file count in folders.
OneDrive Mobile does both. Thanks Chris for the very informative article. We went with Google Workspace in the end for our solution. The big disadvantage we found was collaborating on MS Office documents. Workspace does provide Word and Excel inline editing online, but we find it messes up the formatting of the office version of the document.
We are still resorting to downloading and re-uploading. This helped us commit to Workspace, I hope it helps others too. Hope this helps a little! I have had to administer both environments and highly prefer M for a number of reasons, from Powerapps far surpassing appsheets to Teams to Google feeling like a still developing environment. Workspaces just fills like it exists to fill the needs of smaller companies with budgets but it markets to everyone and is comparably priced , so I struggle to see why any org over users would use it.
That said, I am once again in a boat where there are a number of people who have a personal preference for Workspaces or rather just not using Microsoft and I have to either make a solid case for letting go of that preference OR I have to convince myself that workspaces is the best option. I am not quite convinced highly biased , but this article certainly helped! I still just think that Workspaces feels like a budget solution and M feels like a grown-up, full solution, but I am trying to check that bias.
I would only use sheets for basic stuff. I can go on. Also in these days when everyone is on the net and connectivity can be cagey then guess what, no internet no work. I wish I was using Office but not my choice. Office is a second call back.
Google is days or weeks. I had a simple PW problem that took 2 months. The company that handles support in Columbia is filled with people who do not care and have zero accountability.
They blow off appointments and even the management does keep appointments. You missed the power ofPower automate and power apps, no mention of endpoint manager formerly intune , cloud security, defender, azure ad etc etc.
I have a 2. I would like to migrate the file server to the cloud. What dou you recommend? O or g-suite? Thank you. To respond to many other users, I would agree that Teams is a really nice tool with no G-Suite equivalent.
I like it a lot, though I can see it proliferating and causing headaches down the road unless companies put some usage rules in place just imagine having to sift through dozens of team sites to find a specific conversation or document you need.
The collaboration features are JANKY, and the OneDrive sharing is so unreliable that you may accidentally share extremely sensitive information unintentionally. It takes seconds to load emails sometimes. This is for crying out loud. With G-Suite, I had gotten used to my technology facilitating my work instead of hindering it. I have to hand it to you, the level of detail you provide in your comparison content is amazing!
As your team grows, so does your SharePoint storage pool. A business that size would be better served with and could easily afford an Enterprise plan. Once you get to that point, you can migrate plans.
For example:. This way you can give your users the Office plan that is most suitable for their needs, which helps keeps your costs as low as possible. Price is honestly last. Which Would suit me better just as a mail client without taking into account any document based operations.
Just a mail client where I can have [email protected] , [email protected] etc. I came to GSuite first.. But there are some huge annoyances that affect productivity and the bottom line.. What first hits you is the licensing of users. In Office you can have unlicensed users. So you can and should have your Office admin as a separate unlicensed user.. So your licensing costs match your needs. With GSuite.. There are major gaps in the Chromebook app scene.
I find nearly all Android Apps.. Google has recently opened up Linux on Chromebooks.. For example.. I could ping, ssh, netstat.. Easy enough.. Many people use Chrome but do not have a Google account. To make this headache worse.. See problems above. Having a desktop application is more reliable.. GSuite is constantly changing and because its entirely cloud based.. You go to print or move a docs file..
You try it from another computer.. Obviously its the Google service.. These hiccups last for a few seconds to up to 10 minutes.. And there are lots of issues like this. The school I support has over Chromebooks and I am constantly getting people reporting little issues like this.. Network monitoring shows everything is fine.. It happens often that all products have the same image, often dropshippers that use the product images supplied by the manufacturer.
That means that you could stand out with a different angle or higher quality image. The category attribute is no longer required. If you want to supply the data yourself, you can only use the pre-defined values from the Google Product Taxonomy list.
The product type is another category indicator. This one is mainly used for the organization of your Shopping campaigns. If you do use this, be sure to include the full string. In the example above, maybe your store only sells cycling jerseys. So you could have:. Note that items available for preorder are eligible to show in Google Shopping.
For example Price mismatches are one of the most common problems in a Google Merchant Center account. It is an optional attribute with the same requirements of the product price attribute.
Common mistake 1. The attributes condition , availability, sales price, and price are pretty straightforward, but Google is very strict about the accuracy of all the data in your product feed. What you put in your feed needs to match the data on your website. To avoid this, make sure to update your Google Shopping feed is updated frequently and that the data for each product variant is passed correctly.
Check in the Automation section below for some tools that make this process easier by integrating with your store. Gtin or Global Trade Item Number is a unique product identifier. You probably know these better as barcodes. The brand name of the company that created the product. Mpn or Manufacturer Part Number. This is a number provided by the manufacturer of the product. Here is how to use it:. Google really needs this information to match you with the right search queries.
Common mistake 2. For most products, Google requires 2 out of 3 product identifiers. These are the following attributes: brand , gtin or mpn. Because a lot of sellers will have different product titles or descriptions, Google uses these product identifiers to figure out which products are the same. My next move is usually checking sites like upcitemdb or barcodelookup. I opened up upcitemdb.
The screenshot below shows me all of the different product variations. But there are a lot of other ways to describe this product: battery pack , external battery , etc. Thing is that your competitors are probably using a lot of these keywords. Besides most of the required attributes covered above, some categories or cases require you to add additional information into your product feed.
Apparel probably being one of the most demanding categories. It allows customers to explore variations right in Google Shopping:. You can fix this by making sure each variation is unique.
The color attribute is required for all apparel items and indicated the color. The value you need to provide to Google needs to be the actual color spelled out: black grey, teal, etc. If you have multiple colors, you can provide up to three colors by putting a slash in between colors. The gender attribute indicates the gender the product is for. Possible values are male , female or unisex.
Multiple values are supported, but you have to stay consistent across variations. Possible values are:. Note that this is different from the adult attribute, which is explained below. The adult attribute is required if the products contain nudity or sexually suggestive content. I have had one client where this was all switched on by mistake, which caused the products not to be shown. So make sure this one is only turned on if it needs to be.
These are extra pieces of information you can add to your product feed. Adding custom labels to your Google shopping campaigns takes you into the optimization realm of your Shopping campaigns. Besides all of the required product attributes, there are also some meta requirements you need to pay attention to.
These are the various Shopping policies. Violating these policies is what gets your Google Merchant Center account suspended. If you are selling products that are heavily regulated or not allowed on Google categories like alcohol, adult content, tobacco, counterfeit goods, weapons, drugs, copyrighted content, etc. Google wants the best possible experience for a user on your site.
If the link you provide to the landing page is broken or returns a different kind of server error, that product or your whole feed might get disapproved. A second common error in this category is sending the user to the homepage instead of the specific product page. Welcome gates or popups that block the whole page are also not allowed by Google.
Check the list of landing page restrictions. You need to have clear information on your site on how a customer can get a refund or how she can return an order. You need to provide accurate and complete information with regards to the service fast, slow, express, insured, etc. If you are shipping from outside the country you are targeting you need to provide clear information about the cost and type of service. Also, be clear about extra customs fees that might be applied to the order.
If you include the shipping values in your product feed it overrides the values in GMC. There are two ways to pass the correct data for this attribute, one is to do this in a single field:.
Sometimes, shipping rates depend on the weight of the product. In most countries, the price you provide in your feed will include sales tax.
All of the information above will already improve your data quality and shed some light on any policies you might be violating. Account issues These are issues that affect your whole account. Feed issues These problems are related to the fetching, uploading or processing of feeds. Not every problem has the same importance, In Merchant Center there are 3 different types of problems:. But some problems require a different approach. With shopping feeds, that means creating a new simple product feed from scratch where you can control each and every variable.
This is a very time-consuming approach, plus all the data needs to be updated as soon as something changes in your store. There also is an official google shopping feed template. Be sure to also check tab 2 in the document called Example.
This will illustrate how to use the template. Most ecommerce platforms will have some kind of integration with Google Merchant Center.
Shopify, for example, has its own free app that pushes your products into Merchant Center. But in some cases, you need extra flexibility or features that these basic setups are too limited. There are a ton of tools out there that will help you do this skip ahead for a big list of them.
They all work in the following way:. These often have the features that really make the difference. They go under a number of different names: data feed management software, feed management, shopping feed platform, etc. That can be google shoppings feeds for multiple countries or a feed for Google and another for Bing Shopping. Pro tip: most of them will include a free setup, which will help you get your product feeds ready in no time!
Feed Rules is a little-known feature in Google Merchant Center can do some of the things these platforms can, the only difference is that you can do it for free. You can use these to add new information to your Google Merchant Center data feed and make bulk changes. Opinions over which one is the best vary.
Some of the data feed management providers mentioned above, also have their own Shopify apps: Channable and DataFeedWatch. To generate your shopping feeds on WooCommerce, there are many plugins out there. Two of our favorites:. The feedback from our students has been really great so I encourage you to check it out! Dennis is the founder of Store Growers. His goal is to cut through the BS when it comes to ecommerce advice and provide you with tactics and strategies that will make you more money.
Read more. Thank you Dennis! My team will be glad to help any of your readers on their Google Shopping Feed. Hi Id, Seems like both Oliver and myself have stood the test of time. Many thanks for this great article. Indeed, Google Shopping can be tricky. Hellow sir i am using woocommerce and i want to link my product to google shopping and i want to know how it update automatically after adding a product to store.
Hi Md asad, The Wocoomerce extension mentioned in this article Google Product Feed will do exactly that: automatically update the product feed and send it to Google Merchant Center. I have also encountered issues now where google says my mobile landing pages are unavailable — HTTP 5xx response. The pages all function properly on desktop and mobile browsers — it is only when google crawls the site that it finds issues. Here are a couple of idea to start figuring this out:.
Is it possible to change feed titles keeping it little different from website titles in an automatically magento updated feed daily updation. Any smart way to let the feed gets updated regularly via FTP except for the title. This way i can insert few high performing search terms into the product titles. For Shopify customers using the free Shopify app, there are some limitations if you are a clothing retailer selling a product with various color variants — The app will only publish the first variant.
To get around this and have some custom control over your feed if you need it you can actually generate the proper feed xml by using a custom Collection template.
Thanks for your comment Alex. This is going on my to test list! Thanks so much for this article and for the Merchant feed template. I was desperately searching for this info and some template and I found what I needed. A big thank you!!!! For those of us making bespoke or customised products, there are several considerations — particularly when it comes to google-product-category, brand and item identifiers mpn, gtin, etc….
I use Zencart latest version and then install some really good third-party plugin modules:- Sitemap. Make sure your product data is able to store in the database and in individual data fields all the parameters that need to indicate to Google, that your eventual data feed is compliant. In Google Merchant Centre, some product categories have additional required data-sets. So make sure your software enables you to add these attributes when a GPC requires you to do so.
For example such as on non-product pages , it is not necessary to invoke certain google remarketing jscripts. Take note of what may be slowing the site down. Here, you create a Google Search Console account, and when ready, use its features to upload a sitemap. If you plan on using Google Advertising services, then create your AdWords account now.
Start simply, with a single, easy campaign, and just one or two ads. Then, generate your product feed usually an XML file. Fix any errors, then TEST again. Over the years, this has become more detailed and complex — and is best handled by someone who has experience and knowledge. Messing it up can wreak havoc on your search results, your advert quality scores and eventually your bank account….
I absolutely agree to get your foundation straightened out before you start with feeds. Thanks for the great article! We are using WooCommerce. The Canadian feed works perfectly. But the US feed has shipping errors on every product. The shipping is set up in Google Merchant as a flat rate for the US — very straightforward. Any ideas on how to fix our shipping error? Just wanted to let you know! Hi Tom, Thanks for letting us know! A client of mine mytruwood. It seems a bit smaller than was wondering if there is a way to make it so the images of the watches were a bit more zoomed up so it showed off more of the watch than the whitespace around it.
To begin I would like to thank you for writing this article, I found it very enriching and useful. We are currently facing an issue with our product titles in our product feed.
These product titles describe the card e. The problem all of our product titles are taking pulling the titles we have on Magento. However, considering that we have product title to update I was curious to know if you knew an extension or a software that would enable me to operate bulk changes instead of having to go through all the product title and change them one by one?
Hi Milan, Thanks for your comment! But perhaps Excel can? We would like to update the product titles with the category they belong to The name of the card artist. Thanks for the great post. I am running exportfeed. I was able to successfully upload my first feed and some of my products are getting impressions while others are not.
Also when I do searches myself only some of the items show up. Any ideas what could be causing this? Hi Alejandro, There couple be a couple of reasons for products not showing up. Great article. Do you have any experience using Woogle? It seems to be a pretty powerful tool but quite complex.
I would suggest getting in touch with the team behind Woogle to see if they have any additional information. ShoppingFeeder is happy to help any of your readers regarding Google shopping issue.
I worked with Adwords for 5 years in Brazil, and we have many problems in small or medium stores. Hi Christiano, glad to hear this post is helpful even to an experienced professional like yourself!
What a fantastic article, it is a really good read and so comprehensive compared to much of the articles which are just scratching the surface when in comes to domain of feed management. I have worked with data feed management for more than 3 years now and setup integrations for a lot of small, medium and big stores i Scandinavia, but still there where some key take aways from this read.
First time I hear about your tool, what would you say is the main differentiator with other data feed management tools out there? First of all, i will say that the tools that you have mentioned are really good and cover a lot of the basic problems e-tailors encounter. I have to admit i am not as updated with the other tools solution as a day-to-day user will be, but here are some of the reasons why people choose our solution instead of the others.
In terms of enriching the data we offer merging, which means that we can merge any source of data or local file to your feed BI-, Recommendation-, Popularity-, Cost-, Weatherdata, etc.
That can be additional images, breadcrumbs, color, brand etc. When in comes to working with data for different channels, such as Google shopping, we have the conditions-hierarchy which you see in most feed management systems but we also have an expression engine, where you can do any changes to the data that you would want by using simple expression.
That could be to create search-term optimized titles, remove html, get the right format, etc. Lastly, we have an image editor not so relevant for Google Shopping , which allows customers to create image templates for different channels.
This article saved me when I have struggled with the feed for 3 days! Thank you so much! Although my feed validation result still indicates invalid data but no indication of what goes wrong….
Thanks a bunch for taking the time to put this together Dennis! And thoughts to share? But initially we were starting off with just trying to set it up for the size attribute. This is the point where they were all being treated as separate products rather than variations. This type of stuff is pretty tricky. One way to speed this testing up could be to create a Google sheet just for these products, that saves syncing time with your cart or feed provider.
Thanks so much for this article, however how long it will take to show information about uploaded data? In current issues section, it shows the message Looking good for Account, Feeds and Items but above. Hi Lisseth, Diagnostics can take some time to update. If that happens, I always double check the actual product information and make sure it contains the values I want them to.
Maybe you have an idea? Hi Adrian, Just had a look and it seems that Cobiro goes a bit beyond just getting your product feed into Merchant Center. It claims to also take over all of the management and bidding of those campaigns, all powered by AI. Hi Dennis, 1. How many hours is your course? Hi Al, 1. The complete Google Shopping course runs to almost 5 hours in total.
I would try the default Shopify Google Shopping app. If you need to do more special things eg. But do offer it as part of Google Ads management. Hi Dennis, Need your input…as still thinking about purchasing your course.
I need to switch. If I watch your course, will it benefit me to use one of their apps? I sell apparel. I have thousands of SKUs per season; so large inventory. I want to have control of my own Google Shopping campaigns…so that I control and maintain my ad spend. I want most efficient way to get lots of my products to be shown when customers search for my products. Their interfaces might be different or easier to use, but they both have very similar functionalities. They will take your product info, give you the ability to make changes to the feed and push it the Google Merchant Center.
The course will help you get a better understanding of all of the different pieces that you need to get right. Especially how to use these product feed tools to make sure you keep control over the performance of your Google Shopping campaigns. I have been reading your articles but think a paid phone call might be where I need to go. Currently, my eCommerce site is on Squarespace that just released a product feed for facebook.
While I was connecting the two I was able to open the file that squarespace created on google sheets and this is where I think I could add those extra columns for a google merchant feed. I have verified my website and am ready to upload a product feed on google merchant.
They probably need to be functiong fairly well before I hit the throttle on my Ad Words scheme. Does this sound like something we could work on? Thanks so much.
These tools usually have a monthly fee attached to them, but they will remove a lot of the headaches and very often help you with a free setup. At this point, I think singing up for one of these tools I mentioned is a better investment. Thanks for the detailed article, a must read for WooCommerce store owners who are setting up their first Shopping feed. Hi Aki, Thanks for your comment. That plugin is indeed a solid one, will update the post accordingly!
Very helpful article. Or have I misunderstood? Hi Paul, Not sure what you mean. Thanks for providing so much info about the google shopping feed. This post is a GEM for all the people who are getting started with the google ads. I have an e-commerce dropshipping store on the Shopify platform and I am using the free google shopping app.
And still, I am facing one problem that my feed is updating automatically on a daily basis, which resets the time for shopping feed approval. And because of this problem, my product feed is in pending stats from a long time.
I would also like to share with a circle of mine. I need for help i have an error in main page in product some field are recommended warning. I need for help regarding google merchant center i have uploaded product in feeds but after that product is going to feed and product status also showing active and Surfaces across Google is also active but in the below column in the name of Item Status showing Violation of shopping ads policy and there is no manual review option for all products and same item status showing so what should i do for fixing the issue please help.
Do you see that? I am completely sure about my product there is not violating of any kind policy of google merchant center,but main fact is that there is no option available for manual review only showing that learn more relating the Help or information of policy violation. In item status issue is Violation of Shopping ads policy and affected destination was blank and action it was Review Shopping ads policies and update your feed to meet the requirements Learn more.
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