Product violates a Shopping policy: the exact steps

What Google's message means

Google's policy check flagged the product against the Shopping ads or free-listings policies (restricted content, misrepresentation, unsupported goods).

Disapproved, and repeated violations put the whole account at risk of suspension.

The fix in Shopify

1. Products → the product: change what Google's quoted policy names — the Title, Description or the first image under Media — so it no longer matches. Save.
2. To take a product off Google instead: Products → the product → Sales channels → untick Google & YouTube. Save.
3. Then Merchant Center → Products → Needs attention → the product → Request review → “I fixed the issue”. Only after a real change: refused requests slow the next ones.

The fix in WooCommerce

1. Products → the product: change what Google's quoted policy names — the product name, the description or the Product image — so it no longer matches. Update.
2. To take a product off Google instead: Products → the product → Channel visibility (right-hand column) → Google: ‘Don't sync and show’. Update.
3. Then Merchant Center → Products → Needs attention → the product → Request review → “I fixed the issue”. Only after a real change: refused requests slow the next ones.

What it costs while it's down

Every product Google flags this way is out of Google Shopping — no ads, no free listing — until it's fixed. Its listed price is what isn't being shown; a free scan names each product and adds up the listed value at stake.