Tax, shipping, and google_product_category are now required
May 7, 2012
If you have not already done so, please set up your tax and shipping rules in your Google Merchant Center Tax Settings and Google Merchant Center Shipping Settings.
Tax and shipping must be defined (for US sellers) or your items will be disapproved.
google_product_category must also be valid and defined, or your items will be disapproved. Even if you had valid categories before, you should double-check because Google has changed many major categories.
Use the Google Validation Report located in your account to quickly see if there are any errors with your feed.
Next Steps
- Sign up for our Mailing List - Get notified of new blog posts!
- Share this article on Facebook
- Share this article on LinkedIn
- Create a Data Feeds Account - Free Trial, No Contracts, No Credit Card needed
More Blog Posts
- Product Listing Ads Campaign Quick Signup (Jun 29, 2012)
- New Feed to Catalog-On-Demand with 6 Months Free Trial (Jun 21, 2012)
- 'upc' renamed to 'gtin' in Google feeds (Jun 16, 2012)
- Google Shopping to end free listings (Jun 6, 2012)
- Invalid google_product_category is now an error (May 24, 2012)
- Tax, shipping, and google_product_category are now required (May 7, 2012)
- Hardware issue resolved and new pricing (Apr 15, 2012)
- Hardware issue (Apr 14, 2012)
- Bing Reopens and New Pricing Reminder (Mar 31, 2012)
- Free Google Monitoring and New Pricing (Mar 15, 2012)
- google_product_category, tax, and shipping requirements (Mar 2, 2012)