Google has up to date its Google Merchant Listings help documentation so as to add priceType property after which additionally give new sale pricing examples. Google said they did this to “make it simpler for retailers to specify sale pricing via structured information and convey parity with value options in Service provider Heart.”
The brand new priceType property is priceSpecification.priceType or PriceTypeEnumeration. Google wrote:
Marks the total, authentic itemizing value of a product, if relevant. Solely use this property if you’d like Google to point out sale pricing to your product. It’s essential to set the priceType to the https://schema.org/ListPrice worth (no different values are supported).
If you happen to use the priceType property to designate an inventory value, it’s essential to additionally present a present sale value with the worth or priceSpecification property. Do not mark the present sale value with the priceType property. See the sale value instance.
Then Google added the Sale pricing examples and stated, “The next instance exhibits a product with a sale value. The present, supply value robotically turns into a sale value while you present a second value with the unique, listing value and mark it with a priceType property of worth https://schema.org/ListPrice. Do not mark the present, supply value with a priceType property.”
Here’s a screenshot of utilizing this:
Alternatively, you’ll be able to embrace two UnitPriceSpecification entries to specify the sale value and the listing value, Google added:
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