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 by way of structured information and produce 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 need Google to point out sale pricing on your product. You should 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 value 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 mentioned, “The next instance exhibits a product with a sale value. The present, provide value mechanically turns into a sale value while you present a second value with the unique, record value and mark it with a priceType property of worth https://schema.org/ListPrice. Do not mark the present, provide value with a priceType property.”
Here’s a screenshot of utilizing this:
Alternatively, you possibly can embody two UnitPriceSpecification entries to specify the sale value and the record value, Google added:
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