Latest updates

Introduction

Get the latest announcements on new features, bug fixes, and release updates.

May 2025

What's new:

• We launched two new sub-APIs.
  • Order tracking supports business order tracking history to provide precise and accurate shipping estimates to customers. Its signals also enable enhanced listings with free and fast shipping.
  • Issue resolution provides access to diagnostic content and support actions in the same way as it's available in the Merchant Center UI.
• New resources are available in the Accounts sub-API.
  • OmnichannelSettings manages the account configuration for omnichannel serving, such as Free Local Listings (FLL) and Local Inventory Ads (LIA).
  • LfpProviders connects to Local Feeds Partnership (LFP) partners for inventory data.
  • GbpAccounts connects to Google Business Profile account for local store data.
  • OnlineReturnPolicy provides the ability to create, delete and update your online policies.
• A new method is available in the Products sub-API.
  • ProductsUpdate lets you update individual products without the need to provide all the fields required for ProductInput.

What's changed:

• The maximum pageSize increased from 250 to 1000 rows per API call.
• A delay that existed for product insertion, promotions, product reviews, and merchant reviews after DataSources creation is fixed.

What's coming:

• Deprecation and future removal of the channel field for DataSources and products.
• Launch of an updated definition for clickPotentialRank in the productView table under the Reporting sub-API:
  • Ranking of products based on clickPotential is normalized to values between 1 and 1000.
  • Products with low clickPotentialRank still have the highest click potential among the merchant's products that fulfill the search query conditions. This is a non-breaking change that might be launched on July 1, 2025.
• The AccountIdAlias in the AccountRelationship resource, makes it possible to better manage complex account structures. For example, marketplaces use a user-defined alias instead of the merchant's internal ID, such as account ID.

April 2025

What's new:

• We launched a new sub-API.
  • Product Studio (ALPHA) leverages genAI to generate and optimize product titles and descriptions. You need to sign this form to request access.
• New resources are available in the Accounts sub-API.
  • AutomaticImprovements manages the opt-in to three automatic update features provided by the Google Merchant Center platform:
    • Automatic item updates
    • Automatic image improvements
    • Automatic shipping improvements
  • AccountService and AccountRelationship resources manage relationships and establish services to service providers.
• We launched three fields for AutomatedDiscounts in the Products sub-API to retrieve real-time prices for products opted into Google Automated Discounts (GAD).

What's changed:

• We now support destinations, known as marketing methods in Merchant Center for the DataSources sub-API.
• We made multiple adjustments to the resource and recommend to review the Accounts release notes for more details.
• The fields taxes and tax_category in the Products sub-API are deprecated in line with the deprecation of accounttax in the Content API.

What's coming:

• We've taken your feedback into consideration and are working on several areas to improve API developer documentation.
• Stay tuned and check back in more frequently, and feel free to give us more feedback.