• This plugin seems to be created by a makeshift team of amateur programmers, just to throw a WooCommerce plugin on the table. I have never seen such carelessness in a plugin’s functionalities, and I am very surprised that this terrible and useless plugin was approved by the WooCommerce plugin team!

    First of all, products are never fully synchronized. In particular, this plugin does not handle languages correctly and does not appear to be compatible with the WPML plugin. It requires many hours of work to adapt some data, and even then, products continue to not sync or present issues on the Google Merchant Center platform.

    The connection with Google accounts, Google Merchant Center, and Google Ads was troublesome, again due to the multilingual nature of the site. It seems the plugin can only be configured for one language, while the others are ignored.

    I kept this plugin for almost a year, hoping that something would change, but unfortunately, that was not the case. Apparently, it’s not a priority for the developers to improve the functions and reliability of this plugin, which now more than ever proves to be useless.

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  • Plugin Support Saravanan S, a11n

    (@simplysaru)

    Hi @plugenius

    Sorry to hear about your issues.
    I reviewed your profile and any support threads you have created and couldn’t find any topics, where you have requested for help with your issues with Google For WooCommerce. It’s not clear why you say sync issues, although you haven’t requested for help in the forums. The plugin doesn’t declare support for multilingual sites anywhere. <span style=”box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;”>In f</span>act, the multilingual support feature is the most requested feature, and you can join this request here.
    Could you please create a new support thread, so we can assist you further with any sync issues? Thanks.

    Thread Starter PLUGENIUS

    (@plugenius)

    Hi @simplysaru

    Thank you for your response. However, I would like to address some points that, unfortunately, your reply completely overlooked.

    For a plugin with as many negative reviews as this one, I find the tactic of redirecting to support requests to be highly presumptuous. My primary reason for this is that my requests for assistance were submitted when I first activated the plugin, nearly a year ago, as previously stated. These requests were made under a different profile than the one I am currently using, which was created more recently.

    However, this point is ultimately unimportant. I can read numerous reviews, many of them quite recent, detailing issues identical to my own. This clearly demonstrates that the plugin is fundamentally flawed. No amount of support can resolve issues that are inherent to the plugin’s native functionality.

    Furthermore, the decision to initiate a poll for multilingual support is a procedure typically adopted by large corporations that rely solely on statistical results to justify implementing features that simple common sense should dictate. Especially in Europe, but also globally, multilingual sites are increasingly commonplace. This trend alone should be sufficient justification to dedicate development hours to ensuring compatibility with the most popular WordPress multilingual plugins.

    You yourself state that multilingual support is the most requested feature, yet you ask me to add my voice to a request that, given its obvious necessity, should already be in development without further formalities. It is truly exasperating to have to submit to the arrogant demands of large companies like Google, where everything is dictated by mere statistics and numbers, when on a human level, it would suffice to use common sense.

    As far as I am concerned, your plugin is unacceptable by default. I am also a developer, and I would never dare to advise my clients to contact technical support when I am aware of my product’s inherent limitations. Instead, I would take the feedback to heart to improve and further develop my solutions to meet the real needs of my clients. For large corporations, however, this remains nothing more than an empty theory, devoid of any real meaning.

    P.S.: For the record, my request for multilingual support is also among those on the idea board, submitted under a different profile in March 2024.

    Furthermore, I would like to specify that Google Merchant Center has had data source functions indicating country and language for a considerable time. It is only your official plugin for WooCommerce that completely ignores this fundamental feature, making product synchronization practically incoherent for all languages. No support team can ever resolve this issue until the plugin is made compatible to sync each language with its own dedicated API.

    Plugin Support Saravanan S, a11n

    (@simplysaru)

    Hey there @plugenius ,

    Thank you for your detailed feedback and technical insights. You’re absolutely right that the lack of multilingual support is a fundamental architectural limitation, not something our support team can resolve with workarounds. Your point about multilingual sites being increasingly common, especially in Europe, is well-taken. Our development team is aware of this and is actively looking into it, though I can’t provide a specific timeline yet. Thank you for your patience and for the feedback you submitted in March 2024. Your technical perspective as a fellow developer helps us understand the real-world impact of these limitations on our users’ businesses.

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