> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://rogus-docs.frimty.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Quickstart

> Set up a Shopify product feed for Google Merchant Center in about ten minutes — install, map your attributes, generate, and connect.

This is the shortest path from installing Rogus to Google reading your products. It takes about ten minutes, plus however long Google takes to fetch your feed for the first time.

## Before you start

* A **Shopify store** with products that have prices, images and descriptions
* A **Google Merchant Center** account

## Step 1 — Install Rogus

Install Rogus from the Shopify App Store. It appears in your Shopify admin under **Apps**.

Rogus asks for read access to your products, inventory and metaobjects. It never writes to your catalog and never touches your theme.

Inside the app you get four pages: **Home**, **Feeds**, **Google** and **Get help**.

## Step 2 — Create a feed

Open **Feeds** and press **Create feed**. Choose **Google Shopping**.

Then fill in:

* **Feed name** — for you only. Google never sees it.
* **Target country and language** — the country sets the currency your prices publish in, and decides which attributes Google requires.
* **Products in this feed** — leave it on **All active products** to publish your whole catalog.

<Note>
  The kind of feed you pick here is fixed for the life of the feed, because it decides the file's address. If you need a different kind later, create a second feed.
</Note>

## Step 3 — Check the mapping

Rogus pre-fills every mapping it can work out: product title to `title`, description to `description`, image to `image_link`, stock to `availability`, and so on.

Two are worth your attention before you generate:

* **Google product category** — Rogus translates your Shopify category into Google's automatically. If your products have no Shopify category, set this yourself.
* **Brand** — normally your product vendor, which Rogus selects by default. Check it says what you want to appear in Google.

Press **Save**.

<Tip>
  Full detail on what each attribute means and where its value can come from: [Attribute mapping](/feeds/attribute-mapping).
</Tip>

## Step 4 — Generate

Press **Generate**. Rogus reads your catalog, builds the file, and shows progress as it goes. You can leave the page — the run continues.

When it finishes you get a count of published items, and a **Feed health** tab listing anything that needs your attention. Some products being skipped on the first run is normal — usually a missing description or image. The rest of your catalog publishes regardless. See [Feed health](/feeds/feed-health).

## Step 5 — Give the feed to Google

You have two ways to do this. Pick one.

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Paste the feed URL">
    On the feed page, copy the **Public feed URL**.

    In Google Merchant Center, add a product source that fetches from a URL, paste the address in, and set a fetch schedule (daily is normal).

    Google fetches the file from that address from then on. This works without connecting any account to Rogus.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Connect your Google account">
    Open **Google** in the Rogus menu and connect your Google account, then choose which Merchant Center account to use.

    Back on the feed, press **Send to Merchant Center**. Rogus sends the products across directly and reports what Google said about them.

    See [Connect Google](/google/connect).
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

Google validates your products on the way in. Warnings there are about your product data — a missing identifier, a category that does not match — not about the feed format. Rogus shows the same problems on the **Feed health** tab.

## What happens next

On a paid plan, Rogus watches for catalog changes and rebuilds the feed on its own — **daily** on Pro, **hourly** on Scale. On Free you press **Generate** yourself after changing products.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Feed health" href="/feeds/feed-health" icon="stethoscope">
    Understand skipped items and how to fix them.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Troubleshooting" href="/troubleshooting" icon="wrench">
    When something does not look right.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>
