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missing_gtinWarning

Limited performance due to missing value: GTIN

You submitted products without a GTIN in a category where manufacturers normally assign one. This is a limited-performance warning, not a disapproval — the products still serve, but with reduced visibility, because Google can't match them to its product catalog as precisely.

Common causes

  • ·The GTIN/barcode field isn't mapped from the shop system into the feed
  • ·Products genuinely have manufacturer barcodes, but they were never entered into the shop data
  • ·Custom or handmade goods without a GTIN that aren't marked accordingly

How to fix it

  1. 01Fill the gtin attribute with the manufacturer-assigned barcode (EAN/UPC/ISBN) wherever one exists
  2. 02Make sure the value isn't from a restricted range (e.g. internal or coupon ranges)
  3. 03For products that truly have no GTIN, set identifier_exists to false — only where that's actually true
  4. 04Re-upload and confirm the warning clears in the 'Needs attention' tab

Checked against Google's documentation: Google Help

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