Suspension Shield for WooCommerce – Google Merchant Center & Shopping Feed Audit

Catch what gets your store suspended — before Google does. A Google Merchant Center suspension doesn't warn you. Your Shopping ads stop, your revenue drops overnight, and the notice says only "misrepresentation of self or product" — with no list of what to fix. Here's the part nobody tells you: most of those suspensions come down to a handful of fixable problems. A feed price that no longer matches your live store. A product marked in stock in the feed but sold out on the site. A return policy Google's crawler can't find. A checkout that doesn't enforce HTTPS. A product link that lands on the wrong page. Google finds these after it suspends you. Suspension Shield finds them first — from inside your store, where it can compare your live WooCommerce data against your product feed, product by product, SKU by SKU. ✓ What it checks — every check free The core: per-SKU price & availability consistency. Every published product compared against your feed:

• 💰 Price — "your feed says $19.99 — your store says $24.99," with one-click copy of the correct value and a deep link straight into WooCommerce. Variations, tax, rounding and sale schedules handled; foreign currencies flagged for review, never guessed.
• 📦 Stock & availability — in-stock/out-of-stock mismatches Google reads as misrepresentation.
• 🏷️ Sale prices & dates — sales that don't line up between feed and store.
• 🔍 Feed coverage — products missing from your feed, and feed items that match nothing in your store.
• ⚡ JavaScript-rendered prices — prices your theme renders in JavaScript can silently differ from your feed; we surface them so a "looks consistent" result is never a false all-clear.

The trust surface Google reviews before approving Shopping ads:

• 📋 Return & refund policy — present, discoverable, complete.
• 🚚 Terms & shipping disclosure — clear terms of sale and shipping costs.
• 🏪 Business identity — a verifiable name and contact methods a buyer (and Google) can find.
• 🔒 SSL & HTTPS — valid certificate, enforced site-wide.
• 🧩 Structured data — Product/Offer JSON-LD present and agreeing with your live price and stock.
• 🤖 Crawler access — robots.txt and noindex settings that aren't hiding your trust pages from Google.
• 🔗 Landing pages — every feed link resolving to the right product page, not a 404 or the homepage.

Every finding maps to the specific Google policy it relates to, with plain-language fix steps and a "learn more" link to Google's own documentation. Your overall risk shows as a clear health verdict with a score — always framed as a risk indicator, not a guarantee. 🤝 Works with the feed plugin you already use Suspension Shield is a companion, not a competitor. Feed plugins generate your feed; Suspension Shield audits it against your live store and Google's policies. It works alongside CTX Feed, Product Feed PRO, Google for WooCommerce and others — and if it detects a feed your generator already produced, it offers the URL with one click. 🛡️ Built to be trustworthy

• Read-only. It never edits your products, prices, pages or feed. You make every change yourself, in WooCommerce.
• Your data stays yours. It reads your own store and the feed URL you provide. It does not phone home, track you, or transmit your catalog anywhere.
• No false all-clears. Anything it can't verify degrades to "needs review" — it never guesses.
• Built for real catalogs. A resumable, chunked scan engine audits large stores without timing out.

🎯 Who it's for WooCommerce stores that advertise on Google Shopping (or want to start), agencies managing client stores, and anyone who has received — or fears — a "misrepresentation" suspension. What it will never claim No plugin can promise Google won't suspend you — be wary of any tool that says otherwise. Suspension Shield reduces your risk: it surfaces the issues most commonly behind suspensions, tells you exactly how to fix them, and is explicit about what it cannot verify. Suspension Shield is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC or WooCommerce/Automattic. "Google Merchant Center" is a trademark of Google LLC; "WooCommerce" is a trademark of Automattic Inc. Suspension Shield is an independent, third-party auditing tool. External services Suspension Shield fetches pages only from your own store's domain, plus the product feed URL you explicitly provide, to run its audit — it never sends your store or product data to a third party.

0.2.0

• Internal code improvements.
• Your settings are kept. Run a scan to refresh your results.

0.1.2

• New: a diagnostic report you can copy from Settings when you contact support. It contains no customer or order data, no full feed URL and no credentials, and it stays on your site until you paste it.
• New: a Suspension Shield section under Tools > Site Health > Info, and scan errors are now recorded to the WooCommerce logs so problems can be traced.
• Improved: the Site Health entry now names what it actually found — for example "1 critical and 4 high-priority issues" — instead of a generic message.
• Fixed: the Overview could briefly show an all-clear before your findings had finished loading.

0.1.1

• Every product is now scanned — the earlier scan size bound is removed entirely.
• Guided three-step setup wizard with automatic feed detection.
• Feed file upload (XML, CSV, TSV) as an alternative to a feed URL.
• Clear notice when results were produced by a previously configured feed.
• Input validation on every field and REST parameter.
• Accessibility, performance, and design improvements throughout.

0.1.0

• Initial release.