How to set up your Shipping and Returns Settings in Google Merchant Center

Next, we have the color. This is the color of the product and is mandatory for apparel. It's used in Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the us. Next we have the size. This is the size of the product, like small, medium, large.

It's used for all products under the categories of clothing and shoes in Brazil, Germany, France, uk, Japan, and the us. Next we have age group. If you're selling apparel, then you'll need to put this in for your products, same as the others. This is required for Brazil, Japan, France, Germany, the US and the uk.

Next we have gender.

This is also for apparel, and you'll need to put in the gender of your product if you're selling to Brazil, France, the us, uk, and Japan. Okay.

Next we have the shipping weight. This is the actual weight of your product. Google Merchant Center uses this to provide accurate pricing based on your shipping settings.

It's mandatory for products where the weight of the product is going to influence the shipping price that the customer pays.

Next, we have adults. This is just mandatory for products that are only appropriate for mature audiences.

Most stores don't have to include this. And lastly, multi-pack. This is mandatory when you bundle products together and you're selling to Australia, Brazil, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the US.

They're the mandatory fields for product feeds. There are a lot of optional fields too. We'll go through the optional fields that we'll need when we actually set up our feeds. In the next videos, just to know, ideally, you want to add as much product information as you can to your feed.

Don't just add the bare minimum and what you need for the mandatory fields. We want to add as much as we can to inform Google about what our products are so they know who to show them to.