Google keeps emailing me about product issues. The list never gets shorter.
Each email names an issue. You fix it, and the next email names another. In my experience the issues are not one pile. Some are settings someone can fix. Some are business decisions only you can make. Some are policy walls nobody can move. The check sorts yours into those three, and prices the ones I can fix.
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Most of the list is one cause repeated across many products.
Merchant Center checks every product against Google's rules and emails you the results. One wrong setting can mark hundreds of products at once, and each shows up as its own line. Here are the causes I check first. Don't worry if the words are new. I explain each one in the report.
The price Google holds is not your price
Google's own rule: "Submit an amount and currency that match the price on your landing page and the checkout pages." If they differ, Google says, "we disapprove your product". A sale that ended, or an app that stopped updating, is enough.
Business details not verified
Google asks you to verify your business details. Until you do, products can go limited, which means fewer shoppers see them. I have seen it on a live store. It is a fix you can do yourself in minutes.
One bulk edit, hundreds of products
A bulk edit strips one required field across hundreds of products. Google marks each one not approved, and nothing in Shopify tells you.
Two apps send the same products
A second app that also sends products to Google can clash with the first. BoxQuiz was paying two apps for a job Shopify already did. I retired both.
New from Google, and it lands soon. Product images must be at least 500 by 500 pixels, the dots a picture is made of. Google's notice says warnings have shown in Merchant Center since April 14 2026. Enforcement starts on January 31 2027. It also says it will enlarge some smaller images itself, so that those products are not disapproved.
Google Merchant Center Help, product data specification update 2026, read Nov 10 2026
You fix lines. The cause stays, so the lines come back.
Google's screens tell you approved, limited or not approved, product by product. They do not tell you that 300 of the lines share one cause. So you fix the lines one at a time, and the next sync writes them back.
The products that are out are the ones you stopped looking at. If you run Shopping ads, the spend keeps going out while the shelf gets shorter.
I sort every issue into one of three kinds, then price the ones I can fix.
The sorting is the work. Once each line has a kind, the list stops growing.
Settings someone can fix
Prices out of step, a missing field, an unverified business, a second app. I fix these at a fixed price, or show you how.
Decisions only you can make
Which countries you sell to, which products you list at all. I lay out the choice. You decide.
Policy walls nobody can move
What Google will not list, whatever the settings. I name them so you stop spending time on them.
- I read Merchant Center's own list and every warning, and group the lines by cause.
- I compare the product list Google receives with what your pages show today. Prices, stock, links and images, including which images are under 500 by 500.
- I check for a second app sending products beside Shopify's own channel.
- You get a written report within three business days. Every cause in plain words, its kind, and a fix list in order with a fixed price on each. I say which fixes you can do yourself in minutes.
A real example, already public: a Shopify store had 2,053 errors in Merchant Center. Eight weeks later it had 9. The order I fixed them in is in that article. Google decides what it approves. I put your side right and show you the proof.
Built for Shopify stores with a Merchant Center inbox they have stopped opening.
This is for you if
- Merchant Center emails you about product issues and the count does not fall
- Products sit in limited or not approved and you cannot tell which fix matters
- You fixed something and a new batch of issues appeared
- You have a warning about image size and do not know which products it means
Not the right first step if
- Your account is suspended. Start with the suspension page instead, where only Google's decision matters
- Your store is not on Shopify
The other Google pages.
Google says your products are approved. Shoppers see nothing.
The Google Shopping Check: which of your products a shopper can see on Google, which they cannot, and why. The $285 card in full.
Nobody finds my store on Google.
Your shop's name and pages missing from Google Search, which is a different system from Merchant Center.
Google suspended my store for misrepresentation.
What Google's own policy page says, what only Google can do, and what I check on your side.
From 2,053 errors to 9
What the errors were, the order I fixed them in, and what you can check yourself.
Before you write.
- Will the emails stop?
- The ones about settings on your side stop when the settings are fixed, and I show you the proof. The ones about business decisions stop when you make the decision. The ones about Google policy do not stop because of anything I do, and the report says which is which.
- Do I have to fix the small images now?
- Google's own notice says product images must be at least 500 by 500 pixels. Warnings have shown in Merchant Center since April 14 2026. Enforcement starts on January 31 2027. Google also says it will enlarge some smaller images itself. The check lists which of your images are under the line, so you fix only those.
- Can I ignore the limited ones?
- Limited means fewer shoppers see the product. Often the cause is one setting, such as business details not verified, that you can fix yourself in minutes. The report says which fixes are yours and which are mine.
- How long does the check take?
- Three business days from the moment I have both the payment and the access to Shopify and Merchant Center.
Forward me one of the emails.
Send me a short note, or pick a time to talk. I read every message myself and reply within one working day.