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Customer reviews: Google & YouTube

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Reviews (3,925)

Overall rating
4.5

What Merchants Think

The "Google & YouTube" app receives mixed reviews from merchants. While some appreciate its integration and seamless workflow, others encounter numerous issues with account suspensions, product misrepresentations, and weak customer support. The overall sentiment suggests that while the app has the potential to enhance business operations, many users face significant technical and support-related challenges.

Key Strengths

  • Intuitive and user-friendly interface.
  • Seamless integration with Google tools for efficient collaboration.
  • Automatic handling of advertising and business workflows.
  • Positive impact on sales and business efficiency for many users.
  • Easy setup for those targeting basic functionalities.

Common Concerns

  • Frequent account suspensions for vague "misrepresentation" reasons.
  • Lack of effective support and slow response times from Google.
  • Complexity in setting up conversion tracking with Google Analytics.
  • Technical bugs and sync issues with Shopify and Google Merchant Center.
  • Redundant processes and misclassification of products.

Final Thoughts

Overall, the "Google & YouTube" app meets diverse reception. It is well-suited for businesses looking to leverage Google's integration capabilities, yet its operational stability and support system need improvements. Addressing technical concerns and enhancing customer support are pivotal for maximizing its effectiveness and achieving user satisfaction.

LetzGlow

Sep 07, 2024  on Shopify

so confusing and complicated to get conversion tracking from google ads to work with shopify, honestly ridiculous. even after going through all the steps, still does not work.

mostlyfinethings

Aug 31, 2024  on Shopify

Complete nightmare using this thing for me. I have been with Shopify for over 6 years. Started online only and then when we opened our little local retails shop and tried to integrate with Google Business Profile and thus Google & YouTube and Ads etc. The entire experience to date has been wretched. Everything always in a loop screwing up, randomly changing data of all kinds from missing price to adult labels on benign things, to missing price, shipping, added attributes I don't want - on and on - and we sell a nominal amount of one of a kind products - art antiques & namely. Extremely poor help from Google and Shopify keeps sending the blame to Google. I am beside myself with fury on this as it is affecting in great ways our local reputation and our ability to take advantage of the free listings and such. It is like a Gremlin outside of our 2 person show is screwing it all up every few days so I can never get it going right only wrong almost all of the time. Horrible and horrible support. I am in CANADA btw. We sell internationally and locally. So wrong to have such stupid problems with Google.

VarietyBay

Aug 19, 2024  on Shopify

The support system is very limited. Theres no any direct contact to google. All the time you have to fill up the submission. I have been trying to contact google for so long for the suspension in my account but they don't get back to me at all. I tried everything to contact them but im tired of trying to contact them and wasting too much time on the phone and then on the web form.

BoatEye360

Aug 18, 2024  on Shopify

Horrible. So complicated for no reason.

Bodega 33

Aug 11, 2024  on Shopify

No funciona bien la app, me duplica los productos en google merchant center. No me permite modificar atributos de los productos en google merchant center y tampoco me deja hacer remarketing dinamico. Intente mil formas de arreglar los problemas, desde shopify modificando los productos y tambien en google merchant center. Nada funcionó

Exotix Card

Aug 08, 2024  on Shopify

MedMassager

Aug 07, 2024  on Shopify

Stays disconnected from Shopify's customer events no matter what. Shopify support claim they can't do anything about it and neither can Google

Alumota

Jul 28, 2024  on Shopify

I can't get it activate and support I was chatting to, could not seem to get me anywhere

MOBILFOX CROATIA

Jul 22, 2024  on Shopify

There is no option for Croatia country. Why is that?

Djolie

Jul 16, 2024  on Shopify

Complicated for nothing .

Executive Automotive Society

Jun 25, 2024  on Shopify

Be very careful when installing this app. I installed it, put in the information per Shopify request and it started asking for information that nobody has and before I could do any research it shut down my automatically started account. No warning, no chance to fix, just said I wasn't doing how it liked it and never told me how to fix it and it can be fixed wrong. Even worse, the only reason I did it was to assign my store to my account and the store I wanted, even though it let me connect, the location wasn't on the list. Completely useless.

The Foalyard

Jun 07, 2024  on Shopify

I am coming from using Magento for many years and I have never needed YouTube to get Google Analytics working. However, here on Shopify with this app it is impossible to set up Google Analytics without YouTube. Anyway, I have created my "Brand Account (limited to YouTube)" as they call it now (see the note at the top of https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7001996), but during the integration when it is time to choose the brand account and selecting the one I did create for the business, it errors with: `Whoops! You're using an account that can't go here. Reference code: es=ABAdc_iIhvK2ZAUWDqjIpeVqHbBtzFtg77o3S-SuSVaYbkqCFX2hkzoGnFRJpqWCRvGTmmexXpLjulqXJ1j1Z_ya7eArOENnYaIVsIECGEnUVdgDwqSXm5TKY-4vgJHAU5Quh6H2l9lK` The reference code is alway random and the error itself is not immediately helpful at all. I have spoken to the Shopify support people but they only suggest to check with Google. Google on the other hand it is impossible to contact as they always refer you to the community and can raise a question with the public. I just needed Google Analytics set up...

Casa by Josephine Jenno

Jun 02, 2024  on Shopify

IT DOESN'T LET ME DISCONNECT!

Oh Bop Fashion

May 31, 2024  on Shopify

Keeps flagging my shops for misrepresentation without giving me any idea what to fix.

Tiny Explorers

Apr 17, 2024  on Shopify

The least intuitive app I've come across so far. Confusing, creates errors, waists time. The worst part is that in order to get support from Google, one needs their Shopify Account ID, which is not readily available in their store, but requires a chat with Shopify support. Even they didn't know which ID to provide (multiple failed attempts inputting a "Shopify Account ID" value in the Google support request). Very frustrating.

Wooflinen

Apr 12, 2024  on Shopify

horrid app. I have it installed, everything is synced and connected, be it merchant center, analytics, google ads. Everything should be good. Tag assistant says no Google tags are on my site. So what's the point?

TheUnfrumpyMommyStore

Apr 11, 2024  on Shopify

The Shopify shopping ribbon, which is intended to show products from my store in the description of my YouTube videos, did not work/appear on my latest YouTube video upload. It worked/appeared on legacy videos, but not on newly uploaded videos. When I contacted support about this, they couldn't tell me why this was happening, nor did they address my concern. They basically said "sometimes this feature will be available in videos, sometimes it won't be - it's random." If that's the case, this is not something I can direct my customers to use.

ShosaQualiTees

Apr 08, 2024  on Shopify

Worst.. when just connected with the Shopify account the products were getting approved. and after 2-3 days it was showing as Misrepresentation policy violated. No proper clarification is provided. just the robotic email received that to visit the policy page and read all over again ang again. it would have been better if there are specific issues have been mentioned. so that as an individual handling all the things can manage and correct the things which is causing issue. instead of just copy pasting the same email. i know nothing right is going to happen. just in words a message full of formality include an apology and our our team will look into this. or is looking into the concern or some same repetitive bot messages.

Naufrage

Apr 07, 2024  on Shopify

Trop de bugs. Automatisation defectueuse à revoir. Un jour votre domaine est parqué, puis accepté apres de nombreuses demandes puis retirer à nouveau le lendemain...

The Earphone Guy

Apr 05, 2024  on Shopify

Suddenly my products disappeared and I cannot reach anyone from support. Very frustrating to say the least.

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