We’ve launched a new
Shippingsettings service which supports the
new shipping settings in Merchant Center. This service replaces the old
Accountshipping service, which has been deprecated and will be retired
March 1st, 2017.
The new service uses
rate tables instead of rate trees to describe complex rate systems, and also supports
retrieving the available shipping services. Check out the updated
Account-level Tax and Shipping guide and
reference documentation if you're interested in what the new service looks like!
A note to users of
Accountshipping: you can retrieve settings uploaded via
Accountshipping through
Shippingsettings, but
not vice versa. Thus, if you currently have shipping settings, you can see what your current settings would look like in the new format expected by
Shippingsettings by retrieving them using the new service.
If you're migrating from
Accountshipping, we suggest you either first experiment with
Shippingsettings on another Merchant Center account used for testing, or keep the code to upload settings via
Accountshipping around until you're sure your new
Shippingsettings code behaves as expected.
If you have any questions or feedback on the
Shippingsettings service or other questions about the Content API for Shopping, please let us know on the
forum.
-Stevie Strickland, Content API for Shopping Team
