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mydiscountbridal
posted this on Jan 24 07:24
All of my Bridal Gowns & Brides Maids are .... FREE SHIPPING! (This was done as an effective way to lower prices, since dress prices on designer clothing are regualted by the manufacturer/ design house) to make my customers come to me instead of some of the others, I thought I'd offer free shipping in the US. via priority mail..
The Items are all set to "FREE SHIPPING"
However if you search me on google shopping:
it doesn't say free shipping next to my store name..
for example (I AM "SLB SHOP" in the results) https://www.google.com/search?q=liz+fields+400&tbm=shop&hl=en&aq=f
yet my competition at better bridal online & petit penelope show "free shipping" & "$204.98 with est. tax & shipping" respectively..
How Do I Get Mine to Show Free Shipping? As nearly 100% of my traffic (about 30 - 50 search clicks per day) comes from google this has been important to me..
but I cannot seem to figure it out... Is FREE SHIPPING A Google "ATTRIBUTE"?
Does anyone out there know how to get it done?
Also a side note, if you click "google checkout" on the left sidebar, it also excludes me... I ONLY offer google checkout, yet am not included there? is this one of those things where highwires built in "google feed" is lacking options or isn't completely compatible with the way google wishes to be submitted data? or am I missing something here too.?
Thanks In Advance...
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I believe, from what I've read is you have to actually set a weight for products and set a flat price of 0.00
You may want to check this thread at Google http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/base/thread?tid=6bba058b919ad39a&hl=en as well as http://support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=188494#US
I've yet to find any information on Google about the sidebar question.
Read about tax and shipping settings here:
http://support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=...
It appears you can specify free shipping as a default...note the link at the bottom of the page to edit your settings.
I don't have my products on "Flat Rate" or "calculated" I set all of them as I put them in the system on highwire as "free shipping" or code "0" in shipping column in the bulk uploads. I cannot set my google checkout by default to "free shipping" on every item in merchant center, or checkout because I have items that I will charge shipping on. I currently have only free ship items listed but for example bras & jewelry are not free shipping as they don't cost $100 or more where I could throw it in like bridal gowns.
I was told by someone I could add google attribute as Attribute name: Shipping Attribute value: US:::0.00
is this true? I could try it, I suppose...
Still no luck...
New problem
Are we allowed to use a weight of 0 in our highwire stores?
for example if you buy a free shipping dress (1.5 lbs weight)
and a julie france body shaper (1lb weight)
you get charged 2.5 lbs shipping.
but if you remove the dress you get 1 lb shipping
and if you remove the item that doesn't get free shipping, then you get free shipping..
btw to clarify my above question... Dresses all have a weight entered as 1.5 lbs, however they are marked "free shipping" in the product uploads.
The google checkout thing might have to do with your google account... everything is connected with them... so are you using the same google account for the checkout and for the google merchant center? Just an idea.