Feeds API Best Practices

Maximize feed performance

You can generally get the best overall feed processing performance by following these guidelines:

• Avoid submitting a lot of feeds with only a few records in each feed. When possible, combine the data into larger feeds that you submit less frequently.

• Include only the products you are updating, not your entire inventory.

• Upload one feed of the same type no more than once every 20 minutes. Allow more time between larger feeds.

• Keep file size below 10 MiB (5*2²¹, or 10,485,760 bytes).

Don't rely on document ID structure

You should not rely on the format and structure of document identifiers. The format and structure is subject to change.