This article provides details about how to submit your promotions data to your Merchant Center account by uploading a data source. Note that this step is only required if you created a promotions data source. You can skip this step if you used the promotion builder tool.
How to register a promotions data source
You must register a promotions data source in your Merchant Center account once per target country. To register your promotions data source, follow the steps below:
- In your Merchant Center account, click Promotions in the left navigation menu.
- On the page that loads, click the Add promotion dropdown.
- SelectAdd promotion source.
- Provide the target country, then click Continue.
- Note: If you choose France or Germany as your target country, the content language should be French or German, respectively. If your target country is Canada, you may submit a promotion in either English or French. If you have promotions for both languages, submit separate data sources per language.
- Next, name your product data source and select your input method. There are 3 input methods to choose from:
- Google Sheets
- Scheduled fetch
- Upload
- Click Continue and follow the steps below to upload your promotions data source according to your selected method.
How to upload a promotions data source
Follow these steps to upload a promotions data source based on the input method you chose while registering your product data source.
Google Sheets
- Choose to either Generate a new Google spreadsheet from a template or Select an existing Google spreadsheet.
- If you selected “Select an existing Google spreadsheet”:
- Browse to locate to the file of the existing Google spreadsheet that you created on your computer
- Click Select to choose your file.
- (Optional) Add an upload schedule to your data source.
- Click Continue.
Scheduled fetch
- Enter the name of your file.
- Add your fetch frequency and time zone.
- Provide the URL to access your file.
- (Optional) If your URL is password protected, provide your login details.
- Click Continue.
Upload
- Enter the name of your data source file.
- (Optional) Upload your file.
- Click Continue.