Merchant Products API release notes

Week of July 7, 2025

Products Service

Added a plural version of GTINs field and deprecated a singular one. For now both fields will be populated when reading and values from both fields will be used during insertion.

Week of June 16, 2025

Products Service

Added the maximum_retail_price field to enable the specification of maximum retail price (MRP) in India.

Week of May 19, 2025

Products Service

Increased the maximum value of page size from 250 to 1000.

Week of May 12, 2025

ProductInputs Service

Reduced the delay between data source creation and when the data source is ready to be used. Previously, the Data source not found error was returned when trying to insert items within 5 minutes of the data source being created. This applies to data sources used for inserting products, promotions, product reviews, and merchant reviews.

Week of Apr 14, 2025

The fields taxes and tax_category in the Product resource have been deprecated due to the deprecation of accounttax in the Content API.

Week of Apr 03, 2025

Products Service

Launch of the automated_discounts field. Automated discounts are designed to dynamically adjust product price discounts such that they help you effectively maximize gross profit performance across your entire inventory.

The automated_discounts field contains information about the prior prices, price prior to the application of consecutive price reductions, and the Automated Discount price.

Week of Mar 24, 2025

ProductInputs Service

Launch of accounts.productInputs.patch method that lets you update individual product inputs through update mask and without providing all the fields of the accounts.productInputs resource.

Week of Jan 6, 2025

The domain field in returned errors is now populated with merchantapi.googleapis.com instead of global

Week of Dec 12, 2024

Products Service

Added the sustainability_incentives field to specify sustainability incentives such as tax credit or price discount for your products. If the field value isn't provided, the item is not eligible for any sustainability incentives.

Week of Nov 15, 2024

Products Service

For LoyaltyProgram, added the shipping_label field to specify eligibility. If the field has value, this offer has loyalty shipping benefit. If the field value isn't provided, the item is not eligible for loyalty shipping for the given loyalty tier.

Week of July 15, 2024

Products Service

Added the member_price_effective_date field. This update lets you specify, if applicable, the date range during which the loyalty member price is effective. If the field value isn't provided, the member price is always effective.

Week of May 27, 2024

Beta launch of Products sub-API