Magento

Thanks for the help guys

There is no such thing as a “special price” attribute in magento.  Did Dr. Frankenstein solve anything for anyone?  I have “minimal price” mapped to Google’s “price” attribute, using 1.3.2.4, and there is no update on price.  We are using catalog price rules for M.A.P. changes (this product line can now be sold 25% below original MAP.  This is HUGE if I want to sell ski equipment along side the big boys like evogear.com and backcountry.com, as they seem to lag at updating they’re MAPs.  If magento figured this one damned feature out, they would have a lot more developers because alot more small businesses using magento would have more sales which means more money to spend which means more developers getting paid for solutions like this one.  Come on… please magento devs, lets hammer this thing out.

http://www.skibarndurango.com

Are you sure you haven’t skipped passed it or have turned off special price as its a default attribute that is available from install?

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My apologies, its front end label is “our price”.

Still though, no dice.  I’ve bashed my brains into a brick wall over this one for quite some time… Apparently the programmers at Varien aren’t knowledgeable in e-commerce business practices like changing your prices temporarily for a sale and wanting those price changes reflected in your product feed to google that organically drives 78% of your sales.

I feel your pain imacache.  I’m in exactly the same boat. 

Thanks for your previous answers Dr_Frankenstein.  I think I’ve followed your tips for getting special prices showing in google base but still no dice.  For instance if you type:

hatley raincoat farmer jill

into google.co.uk you’ll most likely see us listed for the farmer jill raincoat as the first of the google base listings.  But 21.95 is our normal price, it should be showing £18.95 ...
http://welliesandworms.co.uk/hatley-raincoat-farmer-jill.html

Here’s a screenshot of my product attributes for the relevant attribute set:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1853455/special-price-bug.png

I thought it might be because it’s a configurable product but simple products are also displayed in google at the regular price rather than the special one. 

If you have any ideas I’d really appreciate it.

imacache - 09 February 2010 06:15 AM

Still though, no dice.  I’ve bashed my brains into a brick wall over this one for quite some time… Apparently the programmers at Varien aren’t knowledgeable in e-commerce business practices like changing your prices temporarily for a sale and wanting those price changes reflected in your product feed to google that organically drives 78% of your sales.

@Dr_Frankenstein: At my Magento Installation its alos not working (your fix).
Is it correct, i have to change only the Attribute match to:

Special Price -> Price

and then its working?

I have deleted all Products and published 3 Products for testing.

At all 3 Products i saw the Normal Price, not the Special Price. And yes, i have a default installation and nothing changed at the attributes (only add condition)

Thanks for you help

M.

I fixed this problem by commenting this line out

“$this->_setAttributePrice(false, $object->getPrice());”
inside of function
“protected function _setUniversalData()”

in file

app/code/core/Mage/GoogleBase/Model/Service/Item.php

Make sure to have some price attribute pointed to a google base price attribute in your mappings.  It doesn’t have to be special price attribute.

This is an all or none fix, so you must have the price attribute filled in every single product you want to upload otherwise errors will occur.
I know I shouldn’t modify the core code directly because of updates. I’m just lazy for the time being.

dup post, please delete.

Yea i’m still having trouble trying to get the special price to show up in Google Base. Nothing seems to work in this thread.