Set tax and shipping settings

Summary

All products must have shipping information. You can set up general shipping rules on an account-wide basis in the Merchant Center or through the Content API for Shopping. You can also set this information or override the account-wide settings on a per-product basis by adding shipping information in the uploaded product attributes.

If your Merchant Center account serves products for the United States, you must set up tax settings before they can serve. Otherwise, attempting to upload products for the US fails with a reminder to set up tax settings.

The account-wide tax settings are only for products that target the United States. If you're serving products for other countries, please see About tax settings to learn how to provide tax information for your target countries.

Manual steps

1. (US only) Set up tax settings in the Merchant Center.
2. Set up shipping settings on an account-wide or per-product basis.

Automatic steps

Here are the steps to use the Content API for Shopping.

1. (US only) Set up tax settings with the accounttax service.
2. Set up account-wide or per-product shipping settings:
   • For account-wide shipping settings, use the shippingsettings service. For examples, see the Account-level Tax and Shipping guide.
   • For per-product shipping settings, see the shipping attribute documentation and the corresponding attributes in the products resource.