Google and Meta show your products in search results, in shopping ads and on Facebook and Instagram. They read your products from a file, a product feed. Your Shopify shop already makes the main file, the primary feed, with an app such as Google & YouTube. It has the price and the stock.
Instant makes a second file, a supplementary feed, with the titles, texts and Google categories from Instant. Google and Meta use each value in it in place of the value in the primary feed. The price and the stock stay as in the primary feed.
Switch to see the product with and without the feed from Instant.
Made by your Shopify shop
Primary feed
Your shop makes this file with an app such as Google & YouTube. In this demo, it has the product information as the supplier sent it, as in a shop without Instant.
Instant makes this file from the product information in Instant. It has no price and no stock.
TitleDescriptionBrandGoogle categoryPriceStock
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What Google and Meta show
One product, with each value from Instant, and the price and the stock from the primary feed. A value that Instant does not send stays as in the primary feed.
One product in Google and Meta
Here is Fjell regnjakke i genanvendt polyester, as Google and Meta could show it. The table shows each value in the primary feed from your shop, and the value that Instant sends.
Made by Instant
Supplementary feed for Google
For Google Merchant Center. It has the title, the description, the brand, the product type, the Google category and the photos. The file has one entry for each variant, such as the jacket in black, size M.
Example: a result in Google Shopping
FJELL JKT 2.5L BLK/NVY/GRNFjell regnjakke i genanvendt polyester
€249,00
Instant demo shop
In stock
Rain jacket. 2.5 layer. Hood. Zip. Pockets.Til våde dage på stien og i byen. Skallen i 2,5 lag holder regnen ude og lader varmen slippe ud. Hætten har en snor, og de to lommer lukkes med lynlås. Alle ...
Brand:
Nordvik ApSNordvik
Blue: a value from Instant. The rest comes from the primary feed.Each value comes from the primary feed, as the supplier sent it.
Field
Primary feed, from your shop
Instant sends
Title
FJELL JKT 2.5L BLK/NVY/GRN
Fjell regnjakke i genanvendt polyester
(changed by Instant)
Description
Rain jacket. 2.5 layer. Hood. Zip. Pockets.
Til våde dage på stien og i byen. Skallen i 2,5 lag holder regnen ude og lader varmen slippe ud. Hætten har en snor, og de to lommer lukkes med lynlås. Alle ...
(changed by Instant)
For the Meta catalog of Facebook and Instagram. It has the title, the description, the link, the brand and the Google category, and the tags of the product as labels. Meta keeps the photo, the price and the stock from the primary feed.
Example: a product in a shop on Facebook or Instagram
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Instant demo shop
FJELL JKT 2.5L BLK/NVY/GRNFjell regnjakke i genanvendt polyester
€249,00
Rain jacket. 2.5 layer. Hood. Zip. Pockets.Til våde dage på stien og i byen. Skallen i 2,5 lag holder regnen ude og lader varmen slippe ud. Hætten har en snor, og de to lommer lukkes med lynlås. Alle ...
View on website
Blue: a value from Instant. The rest comes from the primary feed.Each value comes from the primary feed, as the supplier sent it.
Field
Primary feed, from your shop
Instant sends
Title
FJELL JKT 2.5L BLK/NVY/GRN
Fjell regnjakke i genanvendt polyester
(changed by Instant)
Description
Rain jacket. 2.5 layer. Hood. Zip. Pockets.
Til våde dage på stien og i byen. Skallen i 2,5 lag holder regnen ude og lader varmen slippe ud. Hætten har en snor, og de to lommer lukkes med lynlås. Alle ...
(changed by Instant)
Instant can make a file for another channel, and a file that tests a new title.
Made by Instant
Custom feed for a marketplace
For another channel, such as a marketplace. You choose the fields and their names. The description is about the product in the third person, because a marketplace writes about the brands that it sells.
One entry in the file
Title
Fjell regnjakke i genanvendt polyester
Description
The Fjell rain jacket by Nordvik has a 2.5 layer shell of recycled polyester, a fixed hood, and two zip hand pockets. Nordvik makes it in Portugal.
The Google file, with a test of two titles. On some products, half of the variants get a second title, Candidate A, and the other half keep the first title. You compare the two groups in the reports of Google.
The two titles of Fjell regnjakke i genanvendt polyester
This demo shop is not connected to Google Merchant Center or Meta, and the files are not sent anywhere. This page shows the product information that Instant would send. The brand description and the image description stay in Instant, and are in no file.
Instant demoProduct information after InstantProduct information as the supplier sent it