# Google Merchant API With New October 2026 Updates

> Source: <https://www.seroundtable.com/google-merchant-api-update-42410.html>
> Published: 2026-10-29 11:21:00+00:00

Google has released several updates to the Merchant API for October 26. The update expands YouTube Shopping and AI-commerce reporting, adds product attributes for videos and warranties, improves disapproval diagnostics, and introduces API integration enhancements and reporting deprecations.

The [October 2026 release notes](https://developers.google.com/merchant/api/latest-updates#october_2026) list 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 efficiency enums
- Mileage allowance for vehicle installments
- Offer-level video links
- New third-party (3P) service provider documentation
- New Java code samples for managing region batching
- UCP agentic performance reporting (v1alpha)
- Expanded warranty attribute support
- Offer-level account issue denormalization
- Deprecation of YoutubeProductPerformanceView (v1alpha)
- Notifications sub-API pagination defaults and new guides
- Reference documentation and quotas and limits guide reorganization

You can see the more details list of changes in the [October 2026 release notes](https://developers.google.com/merchant/api/latest-updates#october_2026).

Forum discussion at [X](https://x.com/rustybrick/status/2115765914566054277).
