SpreeGoogleMerchant

This extension allows you to use Google Merchant to list products for free that will appear in Google Product Search (http://www.google.com/shopping).

Learn more about Google Merchant

For product feed field definitions, (consult http://support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=188494#US)

Forked from github.com/jumph4x/spree-google-base, updated for Spree 2.0, removed taxon map and need to install migrations

INSTALLATION

1. Create Google Merchant account. Create Google Merchant ftp account (if applicable). Create data feed in Google Merchant with a type "Products" and name "google_merchant.xml".

2. Set preferences in spree admin panel (/admin/google_merchant_settings) for the feed title, public domain, feed description, ftp login and password. FTP login is not required - you may schedule upload from the public directory.

3. Issue the command 'rake spree_google_merchant:generate_and_transfer' to generate feed. Verify feed exists (YOUR_APP_ROOT/public/google_merchant.xml).

ADVANCED CONFIGURATION

You can modify fields set for export and list of 'g:' attributes. Look at config/initializers/google_merchant.rb You can override values of google_merchant_ATTR_MAP and google_merchant_FILTERED_ATTRS arrays with help of Array#delete, Array#delete_at, Array#<<, Array#+=, etc. Also you can override methods from product_decorator.rb in your site extension.

CRONJOBS

There are two options to regulate Google Merchant product update:

A) Setup cronjobs to run 'rake spree_google_merchant:generate' and 'rake spree_google_merchant:transfer'

Development of this extension is sponsored by End Point and by FCP Groton.