Hi Garry,

google will be introducing shipping rates soon, is this something that will be aaded by red mystic

cheers

Hi,

Do you have a link?

THe component already supports 2 different kinds of shipping...1 using virtuemart shipping modules (already supported by google).  2. Dynamic shipping which calculates rates in real time on the redmystic.com side (google doesnt support this)

Cheers,

Garry

Hello,

Thank you for participating in Google Product Search.  We are reaching out to you to inform you of updates to the Tax & Shipping settings tab located under "Settings" in your Google Merchant Center account.  On this tab you will be able to set shipping values for your items on Google Product Search. We will soon be displaying this information on Google Product Search to provide buyers with important price information. This email provides an overview of the submission process in order to help you provide this data.

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HOW TO SET SHIPPING VALUES IN YOUR GOOGLE MERCHANT CENTER ACCOUNT

You have two options to set SHIPPING for your products:
1.  Specify a flat shipping rate (or free shipping).
2.  Define custom tables if the shipping rate you charge varies by price, weight, or number of items. Note: If you define a table based on the number of items, for now, we will use the rate in the first row only.
If you use the weight-based table option, please be sure to include the SHIPPING_WEIGHT attribute.  More information on formatting the SHIPPING_WEIGHT attribute can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?answer=160085&hl=en#shipping%20weight

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HOW TO SET SHIPPING VALUES VIA DATA FEEDS OR GOOGLE BASE API

An alternate way to submit shipping information is to include item-level values for the new shipping attribute in your data feed. 
These values will override any account-level default values that you have set for that item.
More information on formatting the revised SHIPPING attribute,  please visit
http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?answer=160085&hl=en_GB#shipping

For more information on shipping, please visit our Help Center at
http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=160162

Sincerely,

The Google Product Search Team



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Well these features have been in the US based version for a while. To be honest I didn't realized that the UK version didnt have them already.

The bottom line is the component is already setup to send shipping information to google. You have a choice of doing that way or managing it with the merchant center. Personally I like the dynamic option the component offers to retrieve real time shipping costs but google doesn't support it. Silly if you ask me.

Cheers,

--Garry

hi,
but the products need a weight if the Shipping is based on the weight. So we need a weight attribute in the feed and i cant see a point to includ it.

And i think It is not enough to setting up the shipping cost per weight on Google Merchant settings, because there is no relation between prices and the products.

So i think we need a 1.3.12 :)

Here a sample for the XML code from the Google Merchant Center Help:

<g:shipping_weight>3 Kilogramm</g:shipping_weight>

Hi again,

It's a good suggestion. I'll see what I can do

Cheers,

Garry