Add Google Merchant Center export

Go to Exports from your site's main menu.

Select ADD EXPORT and search for Google Content API for Shopping. Select Add, give it a name as desired, and again select Add.

Select Add Destination and choose Google Content API (single account) from the drop-down list. You can optionally customize the destination's description in Name. Select Save.

In Merchant Center ID, enter your Merchant ID. If you have a multi-client GMC, enter the Merchant ID of your sub-account.

Select the appropriate target country and language for the feed in Target Country and Target Language.

Define how often you want the platform to perform a complete product upload in Full Upload Interval (in days). To avoid product expiration, the platform exports new, deleted, changed, and unchanged products during a complete upload performed once every defined time interval.

In Merchant Center Cleanup, choose Yes to remove products within GMC that do not originate from this destination. By default, this option is off.

Choose your GMC authentication in Authentication to use. If you haven't created the authentication in the platform yet, select Add New Authentication and create it, as previously seen in Prerequisites.

Select On in Enable Error Log File to let Productsup upload feedback files that contain export-related errors as a new data source. You can also download the zipped errors file from the Notifications window.

In Log API calls, select On for the platform to log calls to the GMC API. You can find the logs in the Notifications window.

In Log headers of API calls, select On to add response headers to the logs.

In API call logging end time, enter a date using the YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD format, stating when the platform should stop logging API calls.

Turn on the destination by selecting On in Active.

Select Save.

Go to Dataflow to locate all the attributes mandatory for Google Merchant Center and map them from import to export.

Go to Data View to optimize your data as needed. See Rule box category Google Merchant Center for more information.

Go to Exports from your site's main menu.

Select ADD EXPORT and search for Google Content API for Shopping (multi). Select Add, give it a name as desired, and again select Add.

Select Add Destination and choose Google Content API (multi account) from the drop-down list. You can optionally customize the destination's description in Name. Select Save.

In Parent Merchant Center, enter the Merchant ID of your GMC sub-account.

In Merchant Reference Column, choose the attribute within your feed that contains your merchant center name, merchant center ID, or seller ID.

Select the appropriate target country and language for the feed in Target Country and Target Language.

Define how often you want the platform to perform a complete product upload in Full Upload Interval (in days). To avoid product expiration, the platform exports new, deleted, changed, and unchanged products during a complete upload performed once every defined time interval.

Choose your GMC authentication in Authentication to use. If you haven't created the authentication in the platform yet, select Add New Authentication and create it, as previously seen in Prerequisites.

Select On in Create Merchant Centers to let the platform create new merchant centers in your GMC account. This option only works when you use the merchant center name or seller ID as your merchant reference in Merchant Reference Column. By default, this option is on.

Select On in Enable Error Log File to let Productsup upload feedback files that contain export-related errors as a new data source. You can also download the zipped errors file from the Notifications window.

In Merchant Center Cleanup, choose Yes to remove products within GMC that do not originate from this destination. By default, this option is off.

In Reference Validation (regex), leave the default value #.+# for Productsup to check whether your products follow the data structure required by GMC. Once the platform validates your products, it can send them to Google Merchant Center.

From the Merchant Reference Type drop-down list, choose one of the following options depending on what the attribute you chose in Merchant Reference Column contains:

Enter the name of each newly created merchant center account in New Merchant Account Name. This setting applies only if you use the seller ID as a merchant reference.

Select On in Remove Empty Subaccounts to remove empty sub-accounts from your Google Merchant Center before running a new export. With this option On, the API deletes empty sub-accounts every time the site runs.

In Log API calls, select On for the platform to log calls to the GMC API. You can find the logs in the Notifications window.

In Log headers of API calls, select On to add response headers to the logs.

In API call logging end time, enter a date using the YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD format, stating when the platform should stop logging API calls.

Turn on the destination by selecting On in Active.

Select Save.

Go to Dataflow to locate all the attributes mandatory for Google Merchant Center and map them from import to export.

Go to Data View to optimize your data as needed. See Rule box category Google Merchant Center for more information.

Export your product feed by selecting Export or Run in the top-right corner of your site's view.

Once the run completes, you can see the result in the Notifications window. To open Notifications, select the bell icon in the top-right corner of your site's view.

If the export fails, you can check error messages in the Notifications window provided that you have turned on the Enable Error Log File option as previously seen in Step 9 or Step 10. Otherwise, correct your feed and try again.

You can also go to Error Log and open your site's last run to see what went wrong with it.