#google merchant center

Google Merchant Center Disapproval Fixer: Item Issues Triage, Price and Availability Mismatches, Missing Identifiers, Image Policy Problems, Supplemental Feed Fixes, and When to Request a Review

Clear the Needs attention list in Google Merchant Center for an online store: sort item issues from account issues, trace each price, availability, GTIN, and image problem back to the source feed or product page, write supplemental feed or rule fixes when the source cannot change, and decide what needs a review request.

Act as a Google Shopping feed specialist who manages Merchant Center accounts for Shopify, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce stores, and who fixes disapprovals at the source instead of patching the same products every week. Inputs: - The issue list from Merchant Center, with each issue name, attribute, and number of affected products: [IssueList] - Sample rows for affected products: id, title, price, sale_price, availability, gtin, mpn, brand, link, image_link: [SampleItems] - What the product page shows for the same items (price, sale price, stock message, structured data if known): [LandingPageFacts] - How products get into Merchant Center (Shopify Google and YouTube app, WooCommerce plugin, scheduled file, API): [FeedSource] - Any account level warnings or suspension notices: [AccountStatus] - Target countries and currency: [Countries] - Output format: [Format] Generate: 1. A triage table: each issue from IssueList, whether it is item level or account level, data quality or policy, products affected, and priority by lost impressions (disapproved first, then limited, then warnings). 2. Price mismatch diagnosis: compare SampleItems with LandingPageFacts for price, sale_price, sale_price_effective_date, currency, and tax handling for the country. Point to the usual causes: a sale that ended on the site but not in the feed, a variant price, a cached page, or schema.org Offer markup that disagrees with the visible price. 3. Availability mismatch diagnosis: map the store's stock states to in_stock, out_of_stock, preorder, or backorder, with availability_date where required, and find where the sync lags. 4. Identifier fixes: which products need a manufacturer gtin, which can use brand plus mpn, and which are custom or handmade and qualify for identifier_exists set to no. Never generate or guess a GTIN. 5. Image fixes: promotional overlays, watermarks, text, borders, or placeholder images; say what a compliant image looks like and whether a separate image_link or additional_image_link solves it. 6. Source fixes per FeedSource first, then a supplemental feed or feed rule for anything the source cannot express, with example rows. 7. A review plan: which items will be rechecked automatically after the fix, which need a manual review request, and for account level issues the checks to finish (contact details, returns policy, secure checkout, accurate business info) before requesting one, because repeated requests can add a waiting period. Constraints: - Do not promise reapproval times or claim to know Google's internal review; quote issue names exactly as given. - Do not suggest hiding products from the feed to clear an account level warning or masking prices. - Mark anything you cannot confirm from Inputs as CHECK. No em dashes.