View the issues impacting a Merchant Center account

You can use the Accounts sub-API to see the issues impacting your business account, and any other account you have access to.

You are responsible for complying with the Shopping ads and free listings policies. Google Shopping reserves the right to enforce these policies and respond appropriately if we find content or behavior that violates these policies.

To view all the issues impacting a Merchant Center account, use the accounts.issues.list with the ACCOUNT_ID of the account.

The following request returns the account-level issues:

GET https://merchantapi.googleapis.com/accounts/v1beta/accounts/{ACCOUNT_ID}/issues?languageCode=en-US

Here's a sample response for a sub-account that was suspended for a "landing page not working" violation.

{
  "accountIssues": [
    {
      "name": "accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/issues/home-page-issue",
      "title": "Online store not confirmed",
      "severity": "CRITICAL",
      "impactedDestinations": [
        {
          "reportingContext": "SHOPPING_ADS",
          "impacts": [
            {
              "regionCode": "001",
              "severity": "CRITICAL"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "detail": "The ownership of the online store must be verified through Merchant Center",
      "documentationUri": "https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/176793?hl=en-US"
    },
    {
      "name": "accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/issues/editorial-and-professional-standards-destination-url-down-policy",
      "title": "Landing page not working",
      "severity": "CRITICAL",
      "impactedDestinations": [
        {
          "reportingContext": "SHOPPING_ADS",
          "impacts": [
            {
              "regionCode": "ES",
              "severity": "CRITICAL"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "reportingContext": "DEMAND_GEN_ADS",
          "impacts": [
            {
              "regionCode": "ES",
              "severity": "CRITICAL"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "reportingContext": "VIDEO_ADS",
          "impacts": [
            {
              "regionCode": "ES",
              "severity": "CRITICAL"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "detail": "Broken landing pages or broken links in your online store are not allowed",
      "documentationUri": "https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/12079604?hl=en-US"
    },
    {
      "name": "accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/issues/pending-phone-verification",
      "title": "Your phone number needs to be verified",
      "severity": "CRITICAL",
      "detail": "Verify your phone number to confirm your identity",
      "documentationUri": "https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/12471579?hl=en-US"
    },
    {
      "name": "accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/issues/pending-address-and-phone",
      "title": "Missing business address",
      "severity": "CRITICAL",
      "detail": "Provide a valid business address in Merchant Center",
      "documentationUri": "https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/12471579?hl=en-US"
    }
  ]
}

For a list of common issues and how to resolve them, see the Content API for Shopping guides on account issues and product issues.