You can use the Merchant Inventories API to indicate that your product information varies by region. For example, you might sell different products in different places, or charge different prices for the same products based on where they're purchased.
See Regional availability and pricing for more information.
Regional information is for products you sell online. See Add in-store information to your local products for details on in-store products.
Here are the steps to add regional information to your online products:
Create regions
Before you can add regional information to a product, you need to set up regions
for your merchant account. You can use the Content API for Shopping's
regions resource to create
new regions.
See the Regions guide for a code sample, and more information on managing your regions.
Verify you have online products
You can use the Content API for Shopping to filter the products under your
account by channel to verify that
you have existing online products. Online products must have online as the
value for their channel.
If you need to add online products to your account, use the Content API for Shopping to insert new products, or create a feed.
Insert regional information
After you have online products in your merchant account, you can add regional
information like region, price and availability.
Here's a sample you can use to add regional information to a product with
regionalInventories.insert:
Java
public static void insertRegionalInventory(Config config, String productId, String regionId)
throws Exception {
GoogleCredentials credential = new Authenticator().authenticate();
RegionalInventoryServiceSettings regionalInventoryServiceSettings =
RegionalInventoryServiceSettings.newBuilder()
.setCredentialsProvider(FixedCredentialsProvider.create(credential))
.build();
String parent = getParent(config.getMerchantId().toString(), productId);
try (RegionalInventoryServiceClient regionalInventoryServiceClient =
RegionalInventoryServiceClient.create(regionalInventoryServiceSettings)) {
Price price = Price.newBuilder().setAmountMicros(33_450_000).setCurrencyCode("USD").build();
InsertRegionalInventoryRequest request =
InsertRegionalInventoryRequest.newBuilder()
.setParent(parent)
.setRegionalInventory(
RegionalInventory.newBuilder()
.setAvailability("out of stock")
.setRegion(regionId)
.setPrice(price)
.build())
.build();
System.out.println("Sending insert RegionalInventory request");
RegionalInventory response = regionalInventoryServiceClient.insertRegionalInventory(request);
System.out.println("Inserted RegionalInventory Name below");
System.out.println(response.getName());
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
}
cURL
curl --location
'https://merchantapi.googleapis.com/inventories/v1beta/accounts/987654321/products/en~US~12345/regionalInventories:insert' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>' \
--data '{
"region": "123456",
"price": {
"amountMicros": "33450000",
"currencyCode": "USD"
},
"availability": "out of stock"
}'
PHP
class InsertRegionalInventory
{
// ENSURE you fill in the merchant account and product ID for the sample to
// work.
private const PARENT = 'accounts/[INSERT_ACCOUNT_HERE]/products/[INSERT_PRODUCT_HERE]';
// ENSURE you fill in region ID for the sample to work.
private const REGIONAL_INVENTORY_REGION = 'INSERT_REGION_HERE';
/**
* Inserts a regional inventory underneath the parent product.
*
* @param string $parent The account and product where this inventory will be inserted.
* Format: `accounts/{account}/products/{product}`
* @param string $regionalInventoryRegion
* ID of the region for this
* `RegionalInventory` resource. See the [Regional availability and
* pricing](https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/9698880) for more details.
*/
public function insertRegionalInventorySample(string $parent, string $regionalInventoryRegion): void
{
// Gets the OAuth credentials to make the request.
$credentials = Authentication::useServiceAccountOrTokenFile();
// Creates options config containing credentials for the client to use.
$options = ['credentials' => $credentials];
// Creates a client.
$regionalInventoryServiceClient = new RegionalInventoryServiceClient($options);
// Creates a price object.
$price = new Price(
[
'currency_code' => "USD",
'amount_micros' => 33450000,
]
);
// Creates a new regional inventory object.
$regionalInventory = (new RegionalInventory())
->setRegion($regionalInventoryRegion)
->setAvailability("in stock")
->setPrice($price);
// Calls the API and catches and prints any network failures/errors.
try {
/** @var RegionalInventory $response */
$response = $regionalInventoryServiceClient->insertRegionalInventory(
$parent,
$regionalInventory
);
printf('Response data: %s%s', $response->serializeToJsonString(), PHP_EOL);
} catch (ApiException $ex) {
printf('Call failed with message: %s%s', $ex->getMessage(), PHP_EOL);
}
}
/**
* Helper to execute the sample.
*/
public function callSample(): void
{
// Makes the call to insert the regional inventory to the parent product
// for the given region.
$this->insertRegionalInventorySample($this::PARENT, $this::REGIONAL_INVENTORY_REGION);
}
}
Python
from examples.authentication import generate_user_credentials
from google.shopping import merchant_inventories_v1beta
# ENSURE you fill in the merchant account and product ID for the sample to
# work.
_ACCOUNT = "INSERT_ACCOUNT_HERE"
_PRODUCT = "INSERT_PRODUCT_HERE"
_PARENT = f"accounts/{_ACCOUNT}/products/{_PRODUCT}"
# ENSURE you fill in region ID for the sample to work.
_REGION = "INSERT_REGION_HERE"
def insert_regional_inventory():
"""Inserts a `RegionalInventory` to a given product.
Replaces the full `RegionalInventory` resource if an entry with the same
`region` already exists for the product.
It might take up to 30 minutes for the new or updated `RegionalInventory`
resource to appear in products.
"""
# Gets OAuth Credentials.
credentials = generate_user_credentials.main()
# Creates a client.
client = merchant_inventories_v1beta.RegionalInventoryServiceClient(
credentials=credentials)
# Creates a regional inventory and populate its attributes.
regional_inventory = merchant_inventories_v1beta.RegionalInventory()
regional_inventory.region = _REGION
regional_inventory.availability = "in stock"
regional_inventory.price = {
"currency_code": "USD",
"amount_micros": 33450000,
}
# Creates the request.
request = merchant_inventories_v1beta.InsertRegionalInventoryRequest(
parent=_PARENT,
regional_inventory=regional_inventory,
)
# Makes the request and catch and print any error messages.
try:
response = client.insert_regional_inventory(request=request)
print("Insert successful")
print(response)
except Exception as e:
print("Insert failed")
print(e)
This call returns exactly the same values you submit, and might not fully represents the final inventory data.
It might take up to 30 minutes for the new RegionalInventory to appear in the
product.
See the Regional product inventory feeds section at the end of Create a feed for more ways to add regional inventory information.
Sign up for free listings on Google
To list your products for free on Google, set up free product
listings. After you set up free
listings, eligible products with RegionalInventory can show on Google's
Shopping tab, based on the regional information you provide.