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The Google Merchant Promotions extension allows you to enhance your Product Listing Ads with special offers by displaying your promotions directly in Google Shopping.
Consumers rely on Google to help them find the perfect product from the right store and at the best value. Merchant promotions give you the opportunity to highlight the benefit of purchasing from your store at the moment consumers are deciding where to shop.
As an example, Venus increased their click-through rate by 7% and decreased their cost-per-click by 11%.
In order to participate in the Google Merchant Promotions program, you need to follow 5 steps:
The Google Merchant Promotions extension for Magento allows you to create your promotions feeds easily and within a few minutes.
Configuring the Google Merchant Promotions extension will take you a few minutes before being ready to use. We have established 3 easy steps to follow.
You can first in the Settings tab from:
System › Config › Wyomind › Google Merchant Promotions
You'll be able to define your own settings:
_promotions
You can create a new rule or choose one in:
Promotions › Shopping Cart Price Rules
In the Rule Information tab, you can specify if you want to upload the promotion to Google Merchant. To do so, set Upload to Google Merchant to YES.
Then you need to check that your promotion complies with the requirements of Google Merchant Promotions by clicking on Google Promotions requirements.
After that, click on Save.
You can have a quick look at the promotions you've decided to upload to Google Merchant in:
Promotions › Shopping Cart Price Rules
Check out the value in the last column named Upload to Google Merchant for each promotion.
You should find a preconfigured template named GoogleShopping_feed.xml, if you go to:
Catalog › Simple Google Shopping
To retrieve the product promotion ids in the data feed, you need to add the below promotion attribute to the XML pattern:
{G:PROMOTION_ID}This attribute is used to link your products to the promotions. You can add it to any feed you want.
To check the promotions ids that the attribute retrieves, click on PREVIEW. In the below screenshot, the attribute found one promotion with id 42, for the first product of our feed.
A product can have only one promotion assigned. In the case where there are two promotions for one product, the promotion displayed will be defined according to the priority.
You can see two links from:
Catalog › Simple Google Shopping
In the Products file link column, https://demo.wyomind.com/magento/GoogleShopping_feed.xml is the URL of your products data feed. If you click on that link, you should see all your products as on the screenshot below.
In the Promotions file link column, https://demo.wyomind.com/magento/GoogleShopping_feed_promotions.xml is the URL of your promotions. Here again, if you click on that link, you should see all the promotions you've decided to upload to Google Merchant Promotions.
This is displayed only when the Debug mode is enabled from the Settings tab in:
System › Configuration › Wyomind › Google Merchant Promotions
Each promotion retrieves the information that Google asks such as the product applicability, the promotion display dates.
When clicking on Generate, you get a notification to specify that the data feed has been correctly generated. You also get two URLs:
You will need both URLs to upload your feeds for the first time to your Google Merchant account.
This extension works with Magento Community Edition and also Magento Enterprise Edition. To know if Google Merchant Promotions is compatible with your Magento version, please check the Compatibility tab.
We offer our customers who want to migrate their Magento 1 license to a Magento 2 license, the transfer at a reduced price.
You have the possibility to migrate your license directly from your Wyomind account in:
My account › Licenses & Downloads
Click on migrate to magento 2 in front of the extension and the domain you want to transfer.
Confirm you want to migrate your license to a Magento 2 license by clicking on Confirm and checkout .
An invoice will be automatically added to your account from:
My account › Invoices
The price of the transfer is equivalent to a 30% reduction compared to the price of the regular Magento 2 license.
You can proceed to the payment by clicking on PP .
Once the payment is done, you can go back to:
My account › Licenses & Downloads
There you will be able to download and install your license for Magento 2.
A license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one single Magento installation.
If you use more than one Magento installation, you will have to buy a separate license for each one.
If you run several domains on the same Magento installation, you will need only one license for all of them.
Although your license doesn’t have a limited period of validity, your support period does. By purchasing an extension, you’ll be granted a 6-month support period for free. Passed this period, you will have to renew your Support plan (see FAQ: How to extend my support period?).You can pre-register your live domain to your license in advance.
Thanks to this option, you'll be able to get the extension ready to use on your domain before it goes live.
To pre-register your production domain:
next to the extension you want your domain to pre-register on.
One license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one Magento installation only.
It is possible, however, to extend or transfer your license in 2 cases:
To be able to use Google Merchant Promotions on both your production and testing environments, follow the instructions below:
Now that you can use Google Merchant Promotions on your production environment, repeat the same steps as above on your testing environments.
The only difference this time: a notification will appear in your Magento admin.
You will be given a choice between:
Click on Add this domain to my license.
A transfer request will then be sent to our team within an hour.
Once the request is taken care of, you will receive a confirmation email.
If your transfer request is accepted, you can use Google Merchant Promotions on both environments at the same time.
The order in which you activate your license on your domains does not matter.In order to download Google Merchant Promotions, log into your Wyomind account:
icon next to Google Merchant Promotions.
A new window opens.
Your download can start.
When purchasing an extension from wyomind.com, you benefit from a lifetime upgrade. You can at any time download the latest version of the extension directly from your account.
To upgrade Google Merchant Promotions, follow the steps below:
next to Google Merchant Promotions.
To uninstall Google Merchant Promotions, go on its zip folder and open it.
You will find a shell file (such as: yourextension-uninstall.sh) that you must execute on both your server and Magento root directory.
Once the uninstallation is over, refresh your cache and enable the compiler back again (if you use it).
Before installing Google Merchant Promotions, you’ll have to:
Now you can install Google Merchant Promotions:
Next step is to activate your license, to do so, click here: Extension activation
Once Google Merchant Promotions is installed, you have to activate the license:
configuration › advanced › advancedIf the message doesn't appear then you must check that:
Wyomind's License Manager has not been removed from your installation.
Wyomind's License Manager is enabled in: app/etc/modules/Wyomind_Licensemanager.xml
The HTML output for Wyomind_Licensemanager and/or Adminhtml_Notification are not disabled in your system under: system
To activate the license of an extension that includes other modules, you’ll have to repeat the steps described above for each extension, using the corresponding activation keys (each module has its own activation key).
When exporting a product data feed there is no contextual data such as customer, cart or item in cart. As a consequence no promotion can be applied to your data feed with these conditions.
You can easily debug your promotion data feed using the Debug mode.
For that, define the Debug mode option on Yes from:
System › Configuration › Wyomind › Google Merchant Promotions
This will allow you to see additional data and debugging your promotion data feed when clicking on the Promotions file link:
Catalog › Simple Google Shopping
If your site crashes and gives this error message after uploading all files to the correct folders:
Fatal error: Class 'Wyomind_Notificationmanager_Model_Resource_Setup' not found in includes/src/Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup.php on line 234It probably comes from installing an extension while the compiler is still enabled.
Important note:
Here is how to disable the Magento compiler:
define('COMPILER_INCLUDE_PATH', dirname(__FILE__).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'src');define('COMPILER_COLLECT_PATH', dirname(__FILE__).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'stat');to get:
#define('COMPILER_INCLUDE_PATH', dirname(__FILE__).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'src');#define('COMPILER_COLLECT_PATH', dirname(__FILE__).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'stat');If you're getting a white page using the extension, you should enable the error reporting in order to display the error. You can do that from index.php.
How do cron tasks work:
Be sure that you have correctly configured a scheduled task from the server side (cpanel) targeting the cron.php file in your Magento installation.
The extension includes reporting and debug tools for the scheduled tasks in:
system › configuration › Wyomind › Google Merchant Promotions
We also strongly advice to install the AOE Scheduler that will help you to monitor the Magento cron tasks.
If when saving your data feed configuration, you get:
Forbidden, You don't have permission to access /.../ on this server.
This is probably something regarding the hosting company that doesn't allow to post XML in the form.
The mod_security (security module) includes rules that stop all post/get requests including code.
In order to fix that issue, you should get in touch with your hosting company so that they can add some exceptions to the security rules.
Steve
This has saved us loads of time, especially during busy periods like black friday! Just add the code to the simple google shopping feed, toggle it on for the promotional rule and it’ll get picked up by google no problems!
Mel
The Simple Google Shopping extensions takes the hassle out of creating feed files. It's easy to navigate, customise, de-bug and use. The capability to set rules on what to pull into the feed, along with the category mapping against Google's taxonomy are fab! Plus support has also always been great!
esp
Very nice module. It´s very simple to use and clear.
Sharat Hegde
The Simple Google Shopping and the Google Promotions Add-on are easy to use and configure. I have only had some problem with the time taken to generate the feed, for large websites. Trying to optimize this. Support is excellent and very responsive which is a delight.
ukdig
On the occasions we have needed support from Wyomind our support requests have been answered professionally, and very, very quickly. Following up has been even faster! No frustration of hanging around for numerous days or weeks for a response like we have experienced from some other companies. They understand the importance of quick customer support required to enable smooth running of your site. Probably one of the best extension companies for its customer support, its great to know they are there if needed. As per other reviews you can see that this level of support is not a one off. Well done guys. Fantastic and many thanks again.
Stephen
Takes the hassle out of making a feed file of your latest promotional codes. Also really easy to tell Google about product specific promotions when used with DataFeed Manager. Have it set up to update every day.
myshop
Have used this extension for several years now and find it invaluable when sending our shopping feeds to both google and bing. It's very quick to run also and we have managed to customize this feed as well. Had an query recently and support got back to us quickly.
sportgps
We've purchased 3 extensions from Wyomind, all of which suited our needs perfectly.
Installation was a breeze and all perform flawlessly. We've since upgraded the extensions which went seamlessly.
The Support from Wyomind however.....OUT OF THIS WORLD.
Unlike any we have experienced before. Questions answered within minutes not days and any issues solved in record time.
We would have no hesitation is recommending Wyomind and their extensions to anyone. When something works this well, I have no problems in paying for this level of service and quality.
Well done guys, customer for life.
kartguru
After failing with a free PLA solution I researched my options and decided on the Merchant Promotions module to stand out in the crowd. Slight issue but Paul was able to fix immediately. Looks like the issue was implemented into the next round of Simple Google Shopping updates.
How merchants put Google Merchant Promotions to work, step by step.
Initial release for the master version
Initial release for the legacy version
Specific needs or any ideas of enhancements and new features to add to the extension? Tell us more, we'll get back to you shortly!
