Shopping Booster Bucketing Issue

How to Resolve Feed Confusion in Google Merchant Center for Accurate Product Bucketing in Shopping Booster

By following this guide, you’ll resolve any feed-related issues and maximize the accuracy of your product performance tracking in Shopping Booster.

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Part 1: Overview

Part 2: Check Your Feeds in the Merchant Center

Part 3: Remove Duplicate Feeds

Part 4: Further Support

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Part 1: Overview

Managing multiple feeds for your products in Google Merchant Center can sometimes cause confusion and affect how your products are bucketed in Shopping Booster. This article will guide you through the steps to ensure that only one feed is active, improving data accuracy and performance within Shopping Booster.

What Is the Issue?

If you have more than one product feed in your Google Merchant Center account—especially if one is an automatic feed generated by platforms like Shopify—this can confuse the Shopping Booster tool. The tool relies on accurate product data from the Merchant Center to properly bucket products based on performance. Multiple feeds can lead to incorrect data and wrong bucketing.

Why Does This Happen?

Each feed in Google Merchant Center might have slightly different information, product IDs, or other variables, making it difficult for Shopping Booster to track performance accurately. When the tool encounters two feeds for the same products, it may not know which data to prioritize, leading to inaccurate or incomplete insights.

How to Fix It

To prevent this issue, you must remove one of the feeds and keep only one active feed in the Merchant Center.

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Part 2: Check Your Feeds in the Merchant Center

1. Log into your Google Merchant Center account.
2. Navigate to the Data Sources section.
3. Select Feeds. You will see a list of all the active feeds in your account.

Part 3: Remove Duplicate Feeds

Look for duplicate feeds, especially if you have both a manual feed and an automatic feed (such as the one generated by Shopify). These feeds often have overlapping product IDs, which causes confusion.

1. Choose the Primary Feed
   We recommend keeping the automatic feed from Shopify as the primary feed. This feed typically updates automatically and is synced with your store inventory, making it more reliable.
2. Click on the feed name of the duplicate feed
3. Choose the option to deactivate or delete the feed. This will ensure that only one feed remains active.

Part 4: Further Support

If you've followed these steps but are still experiencing issues with product bucketing in Shopping Booster, please contact our support team. We’re here to help ensure your setup is correct and that your product performance data is accurate.