Best practices

The following best practices apply to the integration and can be leveraged to avoid usability and performance issues. Low data quality might lead to inventory takedown.

Feeds

• If a service doesn't have a set length, set duration_sec in the Availability feed to one of the following:
  • The number of seconds it takes to perform the service in a reasonable manner.

  • The average number of seconds required to complete the service.

    Note: If a length of 0 is submitted in the feed, our system counts that availability slot as invalid and doesn't show it on the Actions Center.
• Make the Category field input in the merchant's feed is specific. For example, a restaurant might submit a specific type, such as French or Japanese. For details, see Place types for potential category values.
• Compress your feeds using gzip