{"id":4418,"date":"2021-06-22T12:27:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T12:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/google-may-suspend-merchant-sites-that-show-invalid-product-availability-349830\/"},"modified":"2021-06-22T12:27:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T12:27:19","slug":"google-may-suspend-merchant-sites-that-show-invalid-product-availability-349830","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/google-may-suspend-merchant-sites-that-show-invalid-product-availability-349830\/","title":{"rendered":"Google may suspend merchant sites that show invalid product availability"},"content":{"rendered":"
Google Merchant Center has a new policy named “Inaccurate availability” that is caused “due to inconsistent availability between the landing page and checkout pages on your website,” the company said<\/a>. This policy replaces the existing “Delivery issues” policy violation and goes into place on September 1, 2021.<\/p>\n What is the inaccurate availability policy. <\/strong>Google explained that a Google Merchant Center account can receive a warning or a suspension when “one or more of your products show as unavailable for purchase at checkout even though they’re displayed as being in stock on your landing pages.” If you are showing users that a product is available on the product landing page but when they click to add it to the cart, it changes that availability as not available, that can lead to violating this policy.<\/p>\n Google said “it’s a bad customer experience if product availability changes from “in stock” on the landing page to “out of stock” or “unavailable” after the product has been added to a cart, and customers will be less likely to try and purchase from your store in the future.”<\/p>\n Reasons you may have violated this policy. <\/strong>Google laid out some common reasons why you may have violated this policy, they include:<\/p>\n Pricing changes also. <\/strong>In February, we reported that Google can also suspend merchants that show higher prices in the cart<\/a> than they show on the product landing page. <\/p>\n\n