Filters:

Filters are meant to filter out products you do not want to appear in your product feeds. You can set two different types of filters, ‘include only’ and ‘exclude’ filters.

Exclude filters

You want to make sure that certain products do not make it to your product feed. The easiest way to do so is create exclude filters.

You want to exclude products that are out-of-stock:

Or you want to exclude a product based on a product ID:

Exclude products that have an empty price:

For example, you want to exclude products that have a stock lower than 2 items:

Or exclude product categories from your feed completely. Just select “Category” in the IF drop-down so the value field automatically populates with your WooCommerce categories. Select the one you would like to exclude and thats all:

Include-only filters

Whereas rules are created to exclude products you can also set filters to create a product feed that contains products based on include-only filters. Meaning only products will be added to your product feed that meet the criteria you have set.

Include only products that are in-stock:

Or, include only products that have a price > 100:

IMPORTANT: Please note that creating multiple filters is possible but that they act as an AND statement and not as a OR. Creating both include_only and exclude rules for a product feed is also possible but please make sure you start with all include_only rules first.

Need to ‘manipulate’ some of your attribute values before they make it to your product feed? You can do so by creating rule-sets. Let us just deep-dive into the inner workings of rules by showing you some of the most used rules.

Multiply rule:

Imagine you need to add a 10% margin on top of your normal product prices as the channel you are advertising your products on asks a 10% fee. Hence, you need to add an addition 10% on top of your normal product price. You can do so by creating a multiply rule like this:

Changing values:

Imagine you need to make a change to the text in one of your attribute fields, for example, the product name. You can do so by creating the following rule:

Create attribute values based on another attribute:

Lets imagine you want to add a color value to your product feed but you did not fill in that information for all products. In those cases you could use another attribute to set the color. For example:

Create an alternative category mapping:

When creating a product feed for Google Shopping using our plugin you’ll get the option to create so-called category mappings. You map your categories to those of Google’s taxonomy. This works perfectly but sometimes there is just that one product you feel fits better in another Google category. You can accomplish this by creating a rule like this: