HikaShop Google / Meta Products feed plugin

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3 days 19 hours ago #370646

Hi Nicolas

I’m using the HikaShop Google / Meta Products feed plugin

Problem: Google Merchant Center is ingesting some parent products (e.g. a product page like /comprar/bandejas-plateadas) as individual items, but the parent product has no price because the prices are set only on the variants. As a result, Merchant reports “Missing price [price]” for those items.

What I need is one of these two behaviors:

Option A (preferred): Export only variants/items that have a valid price, and do not export the parent product as a purchasable item.
Option B: If the parent must be exported, export it only as a group container (e.g. item_group_id) and ensure only variants carry price, so Merchant does not require price on the parent item.

Questions:

Which exact plugin setting(s) control whether the feed exports parent products as <item>?

Is there a setting to exclude parent products and export only priced variants/items?

Is there a way to automatically skip items with empty/zero price?

What is the recommended mapping for Google <g:id> for variants (SKU / variant code), so Merchant recognizes each variant as a separate item and does not treat the parent as an item?

Can the plugin output item_group_id for variants (grouped under the parent), and how to configure it?

If you need examples, I can provide:

the feed XML

an example variant MPN (e.g. 0185R53040) and the corresponding parent product page.

Best regards,
José Ángel

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3 days 13 hours ago #370648

Hi,

Thank you for the detailed feedback.

Actually, the plugin already handles most of the scenarios you described. When you enable the "Include variants" option in the plugin configuration, the plugin will:
- Remove parent products from the feed entirely
- Export each variant as its own item with its own price
- Automatically add the <g:item_group_id> tag on each variant, pointing to the parent product, so that Google groups them together

So enabling that option should resolve the "Missing price" errors you're seeing in Google Merchant Center.

Additionally, products without any price were already skipped from the feed. We've now also added a check to skip products with a price of 0, which will be available in the next version of HikaShop. But normally, prices with the "0" value are deleted when the products are saved in the backend, so this should not normally happen and this is not needed for your direct situation.

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