Google Merchant Center UPC

[rfblast]

Google Merchant Center requires a UPC (GTIN) or a field annotating that it does not apply. Not sure whether this is something we can update on the product backend or with the Google Merchant Center App itself. My products do not have a UPC, and in most cases with online marketplaces such as eBay, if you do not enter a UPC, it will show:

UPC: Does Not Apply

If I put in a UPC, Google will see it and mark it as invalid because it doesn't match the product.

Solution:

If there is not a UPC entered on the product page of the backend, the Google Merchant Center Module needs to add a field to the php page generated to Google Feed to show.

 

Snippet From Google Help:

 

It is definitely difficult to go through and manually add this to the file, and even in doing so, it requires manual uploading rather than the automatic updating that the extension was intended for. Let me know if I can provide any further details for this issue. Otherwise, app is working great.

Tagging @cjf1026 to follow along.

@pandrei - I think you are the module guy? If not, I apologize for tagging you  

[pandrei]

identifier_exists = false is needed only if the product does not have any identifier at all. Which is not very good.

Why don't you use the last point:

then you can select the field for mpn in Merchant Center page:

 

[cjf1026]

Thank you - this is what we wound up doing. I don't guess I followed this topic because I am just seeing this response. Many hours and reading Google pages brought me to that result though.

 

Thanks!