Approve links

We would like to introduce the beta version of the Merchant API. It is the new version of the Content API for Shopping and the future.

For information about how Merchant API can improve your integration and how you can help shape the future, see Announcing the Merchant API Beta.

After a link request has been sent by a partner, the receiving merchant must approve the link before it becomes active. This is normally done by approving the request in the Partners tab of Google Merchant Center. However, links can also be approved programmatically by using the accounts.link method.

Note: When a link request contains mulltiple services, the receiving merchant has the option of only approving a subset of those service. For example, if a link request contains the services shoppingAdsProductManagement and shoppingActionsOrderManagement, the approver can choose to include only one or the other (Buy on Google was formerly known as Shopping Actions).

Example

To approve the link sent from partner 123456789 in the Requesting links example, the client merchant 98765 can send an approve action with linkedAccountId set to partner ID 123456789.

Note that the services list only contains one of the two originally requested services in the example request. This selectively approves the shoppingAdsProductManagement service, and leaves the request to link the shoppingActionsOrderManagement service in pending status.

POST https://shoppingcontent.googleapis.com/content/v2.1/98765/accounts/98765/link
{
  "linkedAccountId": "123456789",
  "linkType": "eCommercePlatform",
  "services": ["shoppingAdsProductManagement"],
  "action": "approve"
}

The next section describes how to remove existing links.