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    google product feed

    I am looking for suggestions.... I have been using www.feedexact.com for years which has been amazing and can't imagine being without it. Category matching does the work of assigning to google product categories (match them once extremely easy setup).

    However Miva has now "built in" this functionality but in my opinion they have not. It's pretty much impossible for us to use with 500k in variants we are stuck looking at a spinning hour glass until finally getting a ssl read timeout error. Are we really supposed to need to go to every variant to fill out all the same information? Current set up uses a module coupled with custom fields to take care of this for us. For instance we have a boot not available in different colors and the master image can be used for all the variants but with the Miva version we have to apply. Also sizing a pant can have multiple attributes to indicate size but google only provides one location. Feedexact allows us to specify how the sizes get arranged and what google sees.

    I guess I'm not even really a 100% sure how Miva's version work considering it just times out on us half the time I haven't successfully gotten a single product to work. Anybody else selling clothing and footwear that comes in different sizes, widths etc. that has a cool solution?
    Mark Hood
    Vermont Gear

    #2
    I'm going to tag along with you Mark, inquiring minds would like to know.
    Leslie Kirk
    Miva Certified Developer
    Miva Merchant Specialist since 1997
    Previously of Webs Your Way
    (aka Leslie Nord leslienord)

    Email me: [email protected]
    www.lesliekirk.com

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      #3
      personally i've never understood why a feed would want size/color for stuff like shoes...maybe for beds, but even then, i'd suspect Billy Bob's Cowboy Rodeo bed to come in twin, full, queen & king.
      Bruce Golub
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        #4
        Using google shopping you can actually use facets to drill in on color and size from different stores. Changing those can actually show you stores that have that specific option rather than landing on a website that doesn't actually have them in the combo.

        I'm really hoping Miva can step in and help on this because that built in option makes zero sense.
        Mark Hood
        Vermont Gear

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          #5
          Originally posted by Mark Hood View Post

          I'm really hoping Miva can step in and help on this because that built in option makes zero sense.
          OMG, I am glad I am not alone, but then I seem to be the one that has these types of problems

          Leslie Kirk
          Miva Certified Developer
          Miva Merchant Specialist since 1997
          Previously of Webs Your Way
          (aka Leslie Nord leslienord)

          Email me: [email protected]
          www.lesliekirk.com

          Follow me: Twitter | Facebook | FourSquare | Pinterest | Flickr

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