Managing Offers for Google Shopping: How it works
In Akeneo Activation, managing price and stock for your Google Shopping channel is handled through a dedicated Offers workflow. This process is separate from the main product catalog mapping and uses the standard Offer Import and Offer Export jobs.
This workflow allows you to update pricing and inventory information independently from your core product data, providing more flexibility and control.
The Offers Workflow
To send your offer data to Google Shopping, you will use the standard import and export features for offers.
Import Offers: You can import your price and stock data into your Google Shopping channel using the manual offer import mechanism. The offer data is linked to your products in Activation using a unique identifier, such as the SKU.
Export Offers: After importing your offers, you can send this data to Google Shopping using the Offers Export job. This can be done separately from your main product data exports.
Important Note: Before you can export offer data for a product, that product must be exported to Google Shopping at least once through a standard product export.
Supported Offer Attributes
The Offers API for Google Shopping currently supports the following key attributes:
Product Price: The standard price of the product.
Product Sale Price: The discounted or sale price of the product.
Global Stock: This is handled by a combination of the sellOnGoogleQuantity attribute and an available attribute.
A Note on Catalog Mapping
When configuring your Google Shopping channel in Catalog for Activation (C4A), you may see several attributes related to price and stock in the mapping interface.
It is important to manage price and stock exclusively through the Offers workflow described above. You should not map these attributes in the C4A mapping screen.
While other price and stock-related attributes are visible, they are not handled by our dedicated Offer API. If you choose to map them manually, the Offer Export job will not override these values. However, the correct and supported method is to use the Offer Import and Offer Export jobs.