Availability date

Hi there!

There isn’t a built-in option to set available dates for backorders. Do you mean pre-orders?

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The error we are getting is.

Availability date is required if you set the product’s availability to backorder or pre-order [availabilityDate]

So they would need to set a date manually for each product?

Any other way of adding a date to this field in the feed?

Hi @dspink,

So they would need to set a date manually for each product?

Yes, if products are out of stock with backorders enabled, setting the [availabilityDate] value is required for each one, and would not be addressable via any global settings or default values.

If you wish to bulk-update that attribute in your Google Merchant Center account, you can do so using a spreadsheet upload as described in the Google documentation here: https://support.google.com/business/answer/3370250?hl=en

I hope this helps! Let us know if you have any other questions.

Thanks Jim