This article discusses how to troubleshoot your Product Feed. To learn more about implementing a Product Feed, click here.
If you are leveraging a non-Google Product Feed to pass your products to PowerReviews, there are steps you can take to ensure the feed can be ingested without issue. These steps can minimize the need to make corrections to the file after your Implementation Team reviews it.
Validating Your Product Feed File Type and Encoding
PowerReviews accepts .csv (comma-separated values) file type for Product Feeds. Additionally, these files should be UTF-8 encoded without a BOM.
Escaping Double Quotes
In some cases, you may have fields that contain double quotes (such as indicating the size of a product in inches). In this case, it is necessary to escape your double quotes.
Example:
5" Super Widget
This should be encoded as:
5\" Super Widget
Please ensure you are escaping all double quotes throughout the entirety of your Product Feed file.
Wrapping Fields that May Contain Commas
Often in Product Feeds, fields like name or description may contain commas. Because we use comma-separated values for Product Feeds, it is essential to wrap these fields in double quotes to prevent commas from breaking the file parsing.
Example:
"Our granola is fat-free, sugar-free, and gluten-free!"
