Use a Shopping campaign to promote local inventory

By default, Shopping campaigns show ads for products sold from your online website. If you enable local inventory ads in your Shopping campaign, you can promote products you sell online, locally, or in both channels.

This article describes how to enable local inventory ads for your Shopping campaign and monitor the performance of your local inventory.

Before you begin

To set up your campaign to promote local inventory, you'll need to complete local inventory ads implementation. If you haven't done this yet, learn more about local inventory ads to get started.

Enable local products in your Shopping campaign

Note: The instructions below are part of the new design for the Google Ads user experience. To use the previous design, click the "Appearance" icon, and select Use previous design. If you're using the previous version of Google Ads, review the Quick reference map or use the Search bar in the top navigation panel of Google Ads to find the page you’re searching for.

1. In your Google Ads account, click the Campaigns icon .
2. Click the Campaigns drop down in the section menu.
3. Click Campaigns.
4. Click on the settings icon next to the campaign.
5. Click the Additional settings arrow, and then click Local inventory ads.
6. Check the box to enable local inventory ads.
7. Click Save.

Display your local inventory

Your products may appear in ads in a few different ways based on the type of inventory you submit to Google. You can specify which ad format you want to use for eligible inventory in your Shopping campaign.

	Online only inventory	Multichannel inventory	Local only inventory
When the shopper is near your store location	Shopping ad	Local inventory ad	Local inventory ad
When the shopper is not near your store location	Shopping ad	Shopping ad	-

Monitor local channel performance

If you promote products sold in physical store locations a local products feed, you can view campaign or ad group level performance reports for your local shopping channel when you segment your reports by click type, channel, or channel exclusivity.

Segment by click type

When you segment your report by click type, we’ll show you data for the 4 different click types, defined here:

Name of click type	What it means
Shopping - Product - Online	Click on an ad where an online product was shown
Shopping - Product - Local	Click on an ad where a local product was shown
Shopping - Product - Multichannel Local*	Click on the local portion of an ad with two links - one to the local product and one to the online product
Shopping - Product - Multichannel Online*	Click on the online portion of an ad with two links - one to the local product and one to the online product

*This click type is no longer displayed. However, you'll see it in your historical reporting.

Here’s how to view your performance data:

1. In Google Ads, select the campaign you’re interested in.
2. From either the campaign or ad group view, click the Segment icon.
3. From the drop-down menu, select Click Type.

You may also download a report reflecting one or several segment options after you have added them to your campaign. To do this:

1. Click the three-dot menu  on the top right of your screen.
2. Click Download.
3. Select More options. 
4. Under Segments, type the names of the segments you’re interested in. 
5. Check the boxes to include Titles and range  and Summary rows. 
6. Click Download. 

Or, you can use the Reports tab to build a custom report. Learn more about building custom reports

About filters for channel and channel exclusivity

Now that you've enabled local products in your Shopping campaign, you can set up filters or subdivide your inventory by channel and channel exclusivity.

• "Channel" segments products by online or local availability
• "Channel exclusivity" segments products by availability in one of the channels or both
• If you set up an inventory filter for "Channel": "Local stores" and "Channel Exclusivity": "Single-channel," your campaign will include products sold exclusively in local stores, not online.

Tip

You can subdivide your product inventory and choose different bids for channel and channel exclusivity. For example, you can subdivide your product groups into products that are available across multiple channels (multi-channel) with an assigned bid. You can then assign separate bids for products that appear in a single channel only. Learn more about organizing your campaign with product groups

Segment by channel and channel exclusivity

Here’s how to segment your report by channel or channel exclusivity.

1. In Google Ads, select the campaign you’re interested in.
2. From either the campaign or ad group view, click Predefined reports (formerly Dimensions).
3. From the Shopping menu, select either "Shopping - Channel" or "Shopping - Channel exclusivity."

Or, you can use the Reports tab to build a custom report. Learn more about building custom reports

Related links

• About Shopping campaigns and Shopping ads
• What makes up a Shopping ad
• Set up a Shopping campaign