Project merchant-center-clear-disapproved-items · revised 11 October 2026
Project
Clear the warned and disapproved products in one Merchant Center data source
We work through the flagged products in one Merchant Center data source by cause (file errors, price and stock mismatches, images) and return each group fixed or explained, with diagnostics.
This asks for a proposal by email. Nothing is charged, and nothing starts, until you have agreed the scope, the price and the terms in writing. Google's approval is never promised.
The result you are buying
Flagged products in one data source rarely share one cause. File errors hide item errors, price and stock mismatches return after each change, and image problems sit underneath. Fixing them in the wrong order wastes weeks of waiting for Google to reprocess.
Who it’s for: Store owner or e-commerce manager with many warned or disapproved products in Merchant Center, several causes at once and no clear order in which to fix them.
Usually starts when: Hundreds of products are flagged for different reasons, a sale or relaunch is coming, or earlier fixes cleared one cause and revealed another.
The result: You buy the cleared list, not the individual fixes. Every flagged product group in the agreed scope is fixed on the feed side and shown clear in processed diagnostics, or is listed with the reason it needs your action or Google's review.
How the work fits together
The project is complete when the file fetches and processes without file-level errors and every price and availability group, and every image group where images are flagged, in the agreed scope is accepted by you as cleared or listed with the reason it needs your action or Google's review. You accept the finished list, not each internal step.
Get your product file fetched and processed by Merchant Center without errors Job First
Merchant Center fetches your named product file on schedule and processes it, with file-level errors in the data source report cleared or explained and the item count matching your file.
One, done first
If the file cannot be fetched or read, item fixes cannot be seen.
Fix Merchant Center price and stock mismatches between your feed and your product pages Job Included
For an agreed set of products the feed's price and availability match the page, checkout and markup, and processed diagnostics show no mismatch. Google's approval is not guaranteed.
One for each group of up to 25 products
After: Merchant Center feed file errors
Map a supplier's category names onto your store categories, with no silent defaults Job Optional
Every category value in a named supplier feed maps to exactly one of your store categories, or lands in a visible unmapped list. Nothing falls silently into a default category.
If category values are the cause
Only if you add the mapping to the written scope.
Keep your Merchant Center product data fetched, approved and in step with your site Standing service Optional
We watch the Merchant Center data source you name. When fetch, processing, price, availability or image problems appear, we find the cause and propose the fix, or say what only you can change.
A separate standing service that watches the source after the clear-out.
How an engagement works
The price covers the agreed groups only. Products added later, new causes and further data sources are quoted separately.
How it starts
You send a redacted summary of the diagnostics and tell us how the file is produced.
We group the flagged products by cause and propose the order and a fixed price.
You agree the scope, price and terms in writing. Nothing starts before then.
We work through the groups, sending each fix or change list for you to apply and then recheck in processed diagnostics.
We send the final summary and hand over anything left open.
Who decides what
You decide prices, promotions and stock, apply every change, resubmit data and request any Google review.
Handover
Each fix arrives as a corrected rule or change list with before and after evidence. Anything unfinished is handed back with notes.
Sharing your product safely. Send a redacted summary of issue names and counts, never logins, advertising access or customer data. After you agree the project, share diagnostics through the agreed route.
What is included, and what is not
- A grouped list of flagged products with the cause for each group
- The corrected feed rules or exports, and change lists for markup and settings you control
- Before and after diagnostics for each group
- A final summary: cleared, needs your action, needs Google review
Included
- One Merchant Center data source and the flagged products in the agreed scope, grouped by cause
- Work in diagnosis order: file fetch and processing first, then price and availability, then image problems
- A feed-side fix or an exact change list for each group, and a refresh route written down
- For flagged images, check each address, file type and size against Google's published image rules. Fix on the feed side what the feed controls (the address, or a file type that does not match its extension) and give a change list for a host that blocks Google. Pictures that need replacing or your decision (overlays, watermarks, placeholders, images below Google's minimum size) are listed as needing your action
- Before and after diagnostics for each group, and a final list of what is clear, what needs you and what needs Google's review
Not included
- Account suspensions, policy appeals or promises of approval
- Advertising campaigns, budgets or billing
- Deciding your prices, promotions or stock
- Products added to the data source after the scope is agreed, unless added in writing
- Applying changes to your live feed, site or account, which stays with you
How we know it’s done
Agreed with you before work starts. Each check produces evidence you keep.
The data source's latest-update report shows a completed processing with no file-level errors, and the items read match the file.
Evidence: Redacted before and after reports and the item reconciliation.
For each price and availability group in the agreed scope, the processed diagnostics show no mismatch, or the product is listed with the reason it needs your action or Google's review.
Evidence: Redacted before and after diagnostics and the final list.
Where images are flagged, each image group in the agreed scope shows no image-address, file-type or image-size issue in the processed diagnostics, or each product in it is listed with the reason it needs your action (for example an overlay, watermark, placeholder or image below Google's minimum size) or Google's review.
Evidence: Redacted before and after image diagnostics and the final list, with the address, type and size found for each listed product.
You have accepted every group in the agreed scope, or removed it from the list in writing.
Evidence: Your written acceptance or removal for each group in the final summary.
Sign-off. You accept each group, or send it back with comments, and then you accept the finished list. Applying changes and requesting review stay with you.
If it fails. A group we cannot clear is named with the reason and what it would take, and is taken off the list with a matching change to the price. Nothing is billed as delivered that you have not accepted.
When it fits, and when we stop
It fits when
- You can share redacted diagnostics for the flagged products, or give the least access that lets us read them
- You control the feed generator, export or rules, or can name who does
- A person on your side applies changes, resubmits data and requests any review
We stop and tell you if
- Most flags are account-level or policy decisions that no feed change can resolve
- Nobody can change the feed source or the pages
- Safe work would need advertising or billing access
What could go wrong
Every fix is a change you apply to your own feed rules or pages, so you can restore the earlier version. If the project stops, groups already cleared stay cleared and the rest is handed back with notes.
Scroll the table sideways to read it all.
| Risk | How we handle it |
|---|---|
| A fix to one cause reveals another cause that was hidden. | Work follows diagnosis order, and groups revealed later are named and re-scoped with you before work. |
| Google's reprocessing lags, so a correct fix looks like it failed. | Acceptance is the processed diagnostics, with the wait stated in the proposal, and no review result is promised. |
| Changes made to the feed contradict what the pages show. | Every price and availability fix compares feed, page, checkout and markup, and your account holder confirms the authoritative source. |
Each group is reviewed separately from the work that produced it, and you accept every group. No human supervisor is included unless your proposal names one. At launch the work is largely automated, and we say so.
Stays with a person
- You apply every change, resubmit data and request any review
- You approve any change to prices, stock or account settings
Access we would need
- Diagnostics and reports shared by an agreed route, or least-privilege read access
- A copy of the feed rules through a company-controlled route
Questions
Do I buy fixes or a result?
A result. You agree the groups in scope and a price, and you accept the finished list. The order we work in is our job.
Can you promise Google will approve everything?
No. We make the data correct and show processed diagnostics. Anything that needs Google's review is listed as such.
How is this different from the monthly watch?
This clears an existing set of flags once. The monthly service watches the data source afterwards.
Send an enquiry
Send us
- A redacted summary of the diagnostics: the issue names and approximate counts
- How the file is produced and fetched, and when it last processed without errors
- Who applies changes and requests review. No logins, advertising access or customer data in the first enquiry
Later, once you agree
- Diagnostics and data source report access at the least level that lets us read them, or redacted exports
- The feed rules or generator through an agreed company-controlled route
- A named person who accepts each group as cleared
Your Merchant Center account, store and prices stay yours. We read the diagnostics you share, work on a copy of the feed rules and return fixes and change lists. Your account holder applies changes, resubmits data and requests any review; we never hold advertising or billing access.
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