Google has released multiple updates to the Merchant API for October 26. The update expands YouTube Shopping and AI-commerce reporting, adds merchandise attributes for videos and warranties, improves criticism diagnostics, and introduces API integration enhancements and reporting deprecations.
The October 2026 publish notes catalog the following chages:
- YouTube Shopping affiliate reporting and developer policies (v1alpha)
- Store homepage URI in the Accounts sub-API
- Product certification links and United Kingdom energy effectiveness enums
- Mileage allowance for conveyance installments
- Offer-level video links
- New third-party (3P) assistance provider documentation
- New Java code samples for managing area batching
- UCP agentic achievement reporting (v1alpha)
- Expanded warranty trait support
- Offer-level document matter denormalization
- Deprecation of YoutubeProductPerformanceView (v1alpha)
- Notifications sub-API pagination defaults and new guides
- Reference records and quotas and limits guide reorganization
You can see the additional particulars catalog of changes in the October 2026 publish notes.
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