How to Add Shopify Products to Google Merchant Center?
Shopify have a an official app that can be used to add products to Merchant Center however, this app is very limited and does not cope well with categories, validation, verification and automation. MCAPI is our cloud-based solution that allows you to upload your Shopify products to Google Merchant Center the easy way. You don't have to do anything, whenever you save your product in Shopify, MCAPI will collect the changed data and it will send it to Google Merchant Center for you, automatically, behind the scenes.
Also, behind the scenes, it will validate your data, it will ensure that data is correct and in proper format to avoid rejections and product drops from Google Merchant Center. It will also figure the best matching category for your product using AI (Artifical Intelligence) and you don't have to map 5000+ categories to your own, this is all done automatically.
To add your Shopify products to Google Merchant center, you need to do few simple steps:
- Create your account at MCAPI
- Select desired plan depending on the number of products you maintain, our most affordable plan starts from just EUR 19.90/month
- In the MCAPI interface, authorize our platform to access and update your Merchant Center account
- In Shopify admin, go to Settings > Notifications > Webhooks and create a new Webhook. Detailed instructions about the Webhook URL can be found in your account at MCAPI
- All is set
From then on, you can simply update any products in Shopify and this product will appear here in your MCAPI account ready for update. You can preview the fields, make adjustments if needs be. Depending on your plan at MCAPI, the product will get updated to Merchant Center immediately or later in the day to ensure that always the most up-to-date information is being sent to Google Merchant Center
