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Set tax and shipping settings
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Summary
All products must have shipping information. You can set up general shipping
rules on an account-wide basis in the Merchant Center or
through the Content API for Shopping. You can also set this information or
override the account-wide settings on a per-product basis by adding shipping
information in the uploaded
product attributes.
If your Merchant Center account serves products for the United States, you must
set up tax settings before they can serve. Otherwise, attempting to upload
products for the US fails with a reminder to set up tax settings.
The account-wide tax settings are only for products that target the United
States. If you're serving products for other countries, please see About tax
settings to learn how to provide tax information for your target countries.
Manual steps
- (US only) Set up tax settings in the Merchant Center.
- Set up shipping settings on an account-wide or per-product basis.
Automatic steps
Here are the steps to use the Content API for Shopping.
- (US only) Set up tax settings with the
accounttax service.
- Set up account-wide or per-product shipping settings:
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Last updated 2025-08-28 UTC.
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