AI Category Suggestions
Google Shopping needs a Google Product Category on every product. In Feedy, a product without one has a validation error and is left out of your Google Shopping feeds. The AI can suggest a category for you.
How it works
Section titled “How it works”The AI reads the product’s title, description, vendor, product type and tags, and picks the most specific category it can from Google’s product taxonomy, for example Sporting Goods > Winter Sports & Activities > Snowboarding > Snowboards rather than just Sporting Goods.
Suggest a category for one product
Section titled “Suggest a category for one product”- Go to Products and open a product.
- Next to Google Product Category, click ✨ AI.
- Review the suggestion, then click Accept, Edit or Dismiss.
- Click Save.
✨ AI Optimize All also suggests a category, but only when the product doesn’t have one yet.
Suggest categories in bulk
Section titled “Suggest categories in bulk”- Go to Products and select the products that need a category.
- Click Optimize N with AI.
- Tick Google Product Categories and click Start Optimization.
- Check the Categories tab in Review AI Suggestions and apply the ones that are right.
Each run handles up to 15 products.
Check every suggestion
Section titled “Check every suggestion”Category suggestions are usually close, but always check them. A wrong category can put your product in front of the wrong shoppers or trigger extra requirements in Google Merchant Center. If a suggestion is wrong, pick the category yourself in the Google Product Category search field.
Good to know
Section titled “Good to know”- Each suggestion uses 1 AI credit. See AI Credits & Usage.
- The category is saved in Feedy, not in Shopify, and is used by your Google Shopping feeds.
- A feed’s Default Google Product Category (in the feed’s Basic Settings) does not clear the “missing Google Product Category” validation error, so it won’t bring uncategorized products into a Google Shopping feed. Set the category on each product.