Hi All.
Wix does not appear to fully support GTINS with the google merchant centre plugin.
This isn’t suitable, as in Australia this is required for merchant centre to display products correctly.
I understand that you can manually add a GTIN for a product within merchant centre, but we have approximately 5000 or more items, so this is not suitable.
There is a method where you can add a supplemental data source within merchant center, to add the GTINS (supplemental source, google sheet, copy the item ID from the already imported products, then add the GTIN column also) - then update.
The issue is, products already within WIX are assigned an item number, which is fine.
But the order in which they are present in the exported product list from merchant center (prior to creation of the supplemental google sheet feed), is different than the order in which our original datafeed from the distributor is formatted.
So basically, we are unable to copy the barcode/GTIN column from our original data feed, to import into the downloaded product list from merchant center (we would still have to do each one individually). If that makes sense…
So i figured that instead of connecting WIX with merchant center, we could just format our original data file, into the same format as the merchant center format, and import.
But the issue then, is that WIX provides the item numbers to merchant center, and we would also have to add a link for each product, to each specific landing page for each specific item, which is unsuitable.
My question is, has anybody successfully synced their large product catalogue with merchant centre, and been able to also supplement the GTINS, whilst having WIX provide the relevant ID and landing page information?
The fact that WIX doesn’t handle barcodes is kind of silly, but it works for everything else fine.
Currently the process is this:
Download datafeed from distributor
Use a python script to reformat the feed into WIX format, and split the file in 2 .csv files
Import all products into wix - WIX working normally
Connect google sales channel and list all the products - which all are approved.
Within merchant center - all items are appearing as “showing on google, free ads and shopping”
But all items also are missing the GTIN, because it is not imported into the WIX feed when it is created and imported. (hence they are not optimised for merchant center, and give the GTIN error)
It appears that the only data columns required for merchant centre supplemental feed are the ID, and barcode. But as mentioned earlier, we can export the product list from merchant center, but are unable to match barcodes from our original distributor data feed, as the items are in a different order, causing us to be unable to create the supplemental data feed without doing each item individually. Which cannot be done.
Absolute Headache!
If anyone has any relevant information, it would be much appreciated!
Thank you!
Mobile Wizard