Automations feature is a standardized user interface designed to manage product data optimizations more effectively. The Automations page helps in automatically updating your product data in Merchant Center to match changes on your website, like price and availability.
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Benefits
Simplified management: The Automations page centralizes all automation controls, making it easier for merchants to view, enable, or disable automations.
Time savings: Automations streamline product data updates, freeing merchants to focus on other business priorities.
Improved transparency: You can gain clear insights into how automations impact their product listings, including previews of changes and performance metrics.
How Automations work
The Automations page: It allows you to automatically update product price, availability, or condition, or any combination of the three to match your website. The “Automatic updates” to price, availability, and condition are enabled by default. You can also turn on “Automatic shipping updates” and “Automatic image improvements” in the “Automations” page.
The automations page displays all available automations, their status (On/Off), and impact metrics such as the number of optimized products and estimated increase in weekly clicks.
Automation details: This dialogue box provides detailed information about each automation. This includes a description, "before and after" previews (if available), impact data, and the master toggle to activate or deactivate the automation.
Get started
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In your Merchant Center account, go to Products & store.
- Select Products and go to the Automations tab.
- From the "Automations” page, choose the specific automation you want to change. This could be automatic updates for price, availability, condition, and image improvements.
- Select View details and toggle the updates to turn on or off.
Learn how to allow Merchant Center to update product information automatically.