Merchant Center Announcements
Here, you'll see what's new in Merchant Center each month.
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Updates to feeds in Merchant Center August 2017 |
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Updates to email contact options. New email preference settings and additional email contacts now available. August 2017 |
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Customers can now opt in to Google Customer Reviews via mobile websites. July 2017 |
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2017 update to the Google Shopping Product Feed Specification 5/23/2017 |
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Introducing Google Customer Reviews. April 2017 |
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Users can now access and manage multiple Merchant Center accounts from a single Google account. 2/24/2017 |
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Shopping campaigns are now available in Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa February 2017 |
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Redesigned articles for the product data specification to make it easier to use. 10/24/2016 |
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Introducing the new Google Merchant Center. 8/30/2016 |
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Use currency conversion to make your product data available to more target countries.
8/30/2016 |
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Feed Rules has been updated with adjusted rules and new transformations. 8/29/2016 |
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New shipping settings launched.
7/12/2016 |
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For all countries, added the preemptive item disapprovals feature for product data violations. This feature can only occur for some product data violations.
7/12/2016 Help Center |
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Increased the maximum image file size from 4MB to 16MB. 6/1/2016 Help Center |
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2016 update to the Google Shopping Products Feed Specification. 5/25/2016 Change log |
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View messages sent to your account in the Merchant Center Message Archive. The new Message Archive feature lets you view any emails, alerts, and announcements in a centralized spot.
5/17/2016 Help Center |
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Transform your data with Feed Rules to meet the Google Shopping products feed specification requirements.
4/26/2016 Help Center | Blog post |
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We launched the new Google Shopping Policy Center today. Get to know the new policies.
2/29/2016 Change log |
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For some countries, added a requirement to submit a GTIN for all products that have one.
2/8/2016 |
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We’re making our policies more user-friendly. Preview the policies now.
12/2/2015 Change log |
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For some countries, added the ability to request a manual review of an item disapproval related to GTINs for designated brands.
9/15/2015 Help Center |
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For all countries, launched a password-based SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) feed upload feature allowing for more secure feed uploads.
9/3/2015 Help Center |
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For all countries, launched an E-commerce Platform feature allowing for product data import from support e-commerce platforms. 9/1/2015 Help Center |
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Use the Google Merchant Center add-on for Google Sheets to easily create, validate, and submit spreadsheets-based feeds.
6/25/2015 Help Center | Blog post |
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2015 update to the Google Shopping Products Feed Specification and Google Product Taxonomy.
6/8/2015 Help Center | Blog post |
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Verify and claim your website URL without leaving Merchant Center in the Website Verification tab under Settings.
6/4/2015 Help Center |
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For all countries, added the ability for merchants to request a manual review of a policy violation. You can only request a review for some policy violations.
5/26/2015 Help Center |
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For all countries, added the preemptive item disapprovals feature. This feature can only occur for some policy violations.
5/26/2015 Help Center |
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Added warnings for recalled products. You'll now receive warnings for products that have been found in a product recall database.
4/30/2015 Help Center |
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Online product inventory update feed allows quick updates to price, availability, and sale price information.
4/8/2015 Help Center |
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Updated requirements for build-to-order custom goods.
4/1/2015 Change log |
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Quoted fields now enabled automatically for new feeds.
3/30/2015 Help Center |
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Refreshed appearance for Merchant Center, including the ability to search the full help center from your account.
2/10/2015 Help Center |
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New shipping dimension attributes now available for merchants using carrier-calculated shipping rates.
2/4/2015 Help Center | Blog post |
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Extended shipping features for Australia. 1/26/2015 Help Center | Google+ |
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2014 update to the Google Shopping Products Feed Specification
6/1/2014 Help Center |
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