Tag Archives: shopping
New ways generative AI can help you find holiday gifts
Source: The Official Google Blog
How to find holiday shopping deals on Google
Source: Google Chrome
The Holiday 100: A gift guide for everyone on your list
Source: The Official Google Blog
New features to help merchants stand out this holiday season
Source: Google Ads & Commerce
New AR beauty tools for shoppers and brands
Source: Google Ads & Commerce
3 ways merchants can use AI this holiday shopping season
Source: Google Ads & Commerce
Buy on Google For Search and Shopping Deprecation
Buy on Google for Search and Shopping will no longer be available starting September 26, 2023. All Merchant and Consumer support will end for Buy on Google on Search on November 25, 2023. The only exception is that the orders.get
and orders.list
methods will remain available for Search and Shopping until October 30, 2024, so that merchants can download their historical order data.
See below for the specific timeline of when Buy on Google methods will no longer be available for the Search and Shopping program.
June 28, 2023 onwards:
buyongoogleprograms.requestreview
buyongoogleprograms.onboard
buyongoogleprograms.activate
buyongoogleprograms.pause
September 30, 2023:
October 31, 2023:
All the orders related resources (orders
, orderinvoices
, orderreports
, orderreturns,
ordertrackingsignals
) and all their underlying methods. The only exception is that the orders.get
and orders.list
methods will remain available for Search and Shopping until October 30, 2024, so that merchants can download their historical order data.
If you are currently using the Buy on Google endpoints for Search and Shopping via the Content API, you will need to stop using these services for Search and Shopping before the dates listed above, as your requests will start to fail after that date.
If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact us via the forum.
Source: Google Ads Developer Blog
Planned Content API maintenance from 15:00 UTC to 17:00 UTC on September 28, 2023
During this time, you will not be able to make any changes to your account such as updates to users, business information, feeds, shipping details, or linking your Google Ads accounts.
You can still upload products to your existing feeds or data sources and run ads as usual.
If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact us via the forum.
Source: Google Ads Developer Blog
Launching the Merchant Support Service
MerchantSupport
service provides more transparency about our policy-related requirements to your merchants. These methods should be used for merchants based in the EEA, but can be used globally.Here are the 2 new methods (developer guide):
- Render account issues: provides UI elements with text in the language you select to display account issues to your merchants and redirect link to Merchant Center for merchants to request a re-review or perform other actions
- Render product issues: provides UI elements with text in the language you select to display product issues to your merchants and redirect link to Merchant Center for merchants to request a re-review or perform other actions
MerchantSupport
methods above are localized. Clients can request texts in any Merchant Center supported language. Please note that merchants need to have access to their Merchant Center account in order to perform the actions.If you are based in EEA, we highly recommend implementing
MerchantSupport
methods by the end of the year, so that your merchants will have more information regarding our policy-related requirements, and have access to our new features. In the future we will expand the MerchantSupport
service to let you request re-review or perform other actions directly with the Content API for Shopping. With this future addition, your merchants will not have to be redirected to Merchant Center, they will be able to request the action directly in your UI.If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact us via the forum.