Migrate shipping settings from Content API for Shopping

The ShippingSettings resource lets you retrieve and update the shipping settings of your account and all the sub-accounts associated with it. For more information about how you can add or manage your account's shipping settings, see Overview of shipping settings.

To use the Merchant API to read shipping settings information, use the following requests:

GET https://merchantapi.googleapis.com/accounts/v1beta/accounts/{ACCOUNT_ID}/shippingSettings

Replace {ACCOUNT_ID} with the unique identifier of your Merchant Center account.

To use the Merchant API to update shipping settings information, use the following requests:

POST https://merchantapi.googleapis.com/accounts/v1beta/accounts/{ACCOUNT_ID}/shippingSettings:insert

For more information, see Method: accounts.shippingSettings.insert.

Comparison between Content API for Shopping and Merchant API

Here's a sample comparison of the Content API for Shopping to the Merchant Shipping settings API:

	Content API	Merchant API
URL	https://shoppingcontent.googleapis.com/content/v2.1/{ACCOUNT_ID}/shippingsettings:insert	https://merchantapi.googleapis.com/accounts/v1beta/accounts/{ACCOUNT_ID}/shippingSettings:insert
Identifiers	{ACCOUNT_ID}/shippingsettings/{ACCOUNT_ID}	{NAME}

The following list mentions the major updates in Merchant Shipping settings API compared to Content API for Shopping:

1. Merchant API users must put accounts/{ACCOUNT_ID}/shippingSettings into the {NAME} field in order to have the same behavior.
2. Merchant API doesn't support read and write operations on custom areas, such as location groups. Custom areas like location groups can only be read or written using the region service.
3. The way to set up WarehouseBasedDeliveryTime is different for Merchant API compared to Content API for Shopping. If you are using Merchant API, you must define warehouse information under shippingsettings.warehouses. Then each shipping service can reference the warehouse through warehouse name under warehouseBaseDeliveryTime.
4. One service in Merchant API supports multiple delivery countries.

New supported fields

Merchant Shipping settings API supports the following new fields compared to Content API for Shopping:

1. Warehouses: Provides information about a fulfillment warehouse, which stores and handles inventory.
2. Loyalty programs: Merchant API users can input loyalty program information to their shipping settings.
3. Etag: Etag is designed to resolve async issues when different users try to update shipping settings using Merchant API and Merchant Center UI at the same time.

Renamed fields

The following fields have been renamed in the Merchant API:

Content API for Shopping	Merchant Shipping settings API	Description
service	services	A single shipping service.
service.name	services.serviceName	Free-form name of the service that must be unique within your Merchant Center account.
service.deliveryCountry	services.deliveryCountries	The CLDR territory code of the country to which the shipping service applies.
service.currency	services.currencyCode	The CLDR code of the currency to which this service applies.
service.deliveryTime.minTransitTimeInDays	services.deliveryTime.minTransitDays	Minimum number of business days that an order spends in transit. For example, 0 means same day delivery and 1 means next day delivery.
service.deliveryTime.maxTransitTimeInDays	services.deliveryTime.maxTransitDays	Maximum number of business days that an order spends in transit.
service.deliveryTime.minHandlingTimeInDays	services.deliveryTime.minHandlingDays	Minimum number of business days spent before an order is shipped.
service.deliveryTime.maxHandlingTimeInDays	services.deliveryTime.maxHandlingDays	Maximum number of business days spent before an order is shipped.
service.deliveryTime.cutoffTime.timezone	services.deliveryTime.cutoffTime.timeZone	Timezone identifier for the cutoff time.
service.deliveryTime.transitTimeTable.postalCodeGroupName	services.deliveryTime.transitTimeTable.postalCodeGroupNames	The name of the postal code group.
service.deliveryTime.transitTimeTable.transitTimeLabel	services.deliveryTime.transitTimeTable.transitTimeLabel	The transit time label of the product.
service.rate_group	services.rateGroups	Shipping rate group definitions.
service.rate_group.subtable	services.rateGroups.subtables	A list of subtables.
service.rate_group.carrier_rate	services.rateGroups.carrierRates	A list of carrier rates.
service.minimumOrderValueTable.storeCodeSetWithMovs	services.minimumOrderValueTable.storeCodeSetWithMovs	A list of store code sets sharing the same minimum order value.

Deprecated methods

You cannot use shippingsettings.custombatch to retrieve and update the shipping settings of multiple accounts in a single request.

Deprecated fields

The following fields from Content API are deprecated in Merchant API. Merchant API doesn't provide any alternative for these fields.

• postal_code_group
• service
• Pickup_service
• Eligibility
• Scheduling_channel
• Delivery_time
• Holiday_cutoff
• Min_scheduling_time_in_days
• Max_scheduling_time_in_days
• Scheduling_business_day_config
• Rate_group
  • single_value_alternative_list

Methods

Here's a comparison of the methods in the Content API for Shopping and the Merchant Shipping settings API:

Method	Content API for Shopping	Merchant API
customBatch	Yes	No
get	Yes	Yes
update	Yes	No
insert	No	Yes
getSupportedCarrier	Yes	No
getSupportedHolidays	Yes	No