--- title: "Connect Google Merchant Center and Pics.io - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New or Updated Product\" fires in Google Merchant Center, your agent runs \"Add assets to collection\" in Pics.io." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/google-merchant-center-to-pics-io" --- # Connect Google Merchant Center and Pics.io When **New or Updated Product** fires in [Google Merchant Center](https://apiant.ai/connections/google-merchant-center), your agent runs **Add assets to collection** in [Pics.io](https://apiant.ai/connections/pics-io), or **Assets Added to Collection** in Pics.io to **Update Product Input** in Google Merchant Center. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Google Merchant Center **1** trigger Google Merchant Center **7** actions Pics.io **10** triggers Pics.io **11** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Google Merchant Center and Pics.io to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Google Merchant Center and Pics.io can do together ### From Google Merchant Center to Pics.io - When **New or Updated Product** in Google Merchant Center then **Add assets to collection** in Pics.io - When **New or Updated Product** in Google Merchant Center then **Add keyword** in Pics.io ### From Pics.io to Google Merchant Center - When **Assets Added to Collection** in Pics.io then **Update Product Input** in Google Merchant Center - When **Assets Color Changed** in Pics.io then **Insert Product Input** in Google Merchant Center Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Google Merchant Center and Pics.io ## Triggers and actions 11 triggers · 18 actions - Trigger **New or Updated Product** Triggers when a product is added to or changed in a Merchant Center account. Google takes about 5 minutes to process a product change, so it fires after that delay. - Action **Delete Product Input** Deletes a product input from a Merchant Center data source. - Action **Get Product** Returns one product from a Merchant Center account, including its approval status and issues. A newly added or changed product can take about 5 minutes to appear here. - Action **Insert Product Input** Creates or replaces a product in a Merchant Center data source. - Action **List Accounts** Returns the Merchant Center accounts the connected Google login can access. - Action **List Data Sources** Returns the data sources (product feeds) configured in a Merchant Center account. - Action **List Products** Returns the products in a Merchant Center account. A newly added or changed product can take about 5 minutes to appear here. - Action **Update Product Input** Updates selected attributes of an existing product input in a Merchant Center data source. - Trigger **Assets Added to Collection** Triggers when an asset is added to the selected Pics.io collection (including its nested collections). - Trigger **Assets Color Changed** Triggers when the color label on an asset in your Pics.io library is set or changed. - Trigger **Assets Flag Changed** Triggers when an asset's flag changes to flagged, unflagged or rejected in your Pics.io library. - Trigger **Assets Metadata Changed** Triggers when an asset's metadata (title, description, keywords, custom fields and other details) is changed in Pics.io. - Trigger **Assets Moved to Collection** Triggers when assets are moved into the chosen collection (or any collection inside it). - Trigger **Assets Raiting Changed** Triggers when an asset's star rating is changed in your Pics.io library. - Trigger **Metadata Processing Completed** Triggers when Pics.io finishes processing an asset's file metadata, including when metadata is reprocessed for an existing asset. - Trigger **New Asset** Triggers when a new asset is added to your Pics.io library, optionally limited to a collection, inbox, lightboard, type or other filters. - Trigger **New Collection** Triggers when a new collection is created directly inside the collection you choose (pick the root to watch top-level collections). - Trigger **New Comment** Triggers when a new comment is added to an asset in your Pics.io library. - Action **Add assets to collection** Adds one or more Pics.io assets to a collection, or moves them into it so they leave their other collections. - Action **Add keyword** Creates a new keyword in the Pics.io keyword tree, optionally nested under a parent keyword. - Action **Create Collection** Creates a new collection in Pics.io, optionally nested inside an existing parent collection. - Action **Delete collection** Deletes a collection from your Pics.io library. - Action **Find assets** Returns the assets in your Pics.io library that match a text search and optional filters such as collection, type, flag, rating, color or creation date. - Action **Find collections** Returns the collections whose name or description contains the text you search for. - Action **Find keywords** Returns the keywords in your Pics.io account whose name matches the search text. - Action **Get assets** Returns the full details of one or more Pics.io assets by their IDs. - Action **List custom fields** Returns every custom field defined in your Pics.io workspace, including each field's title, type, visibility and allowed options. - Action **Update asset** Updates an existing Pics.io asset by ID — its file name, title, description, rating, flag and color label — and returns the updated asset. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update custom field values on assets** Sets the value of one custom field on one or more Pics.io assets at once. ## Each app on its own - [ **Google Merchant Center** API for managing product listings, inventory, and shopping data feeds shown on Google Shopping.](https://apiant.ai/connections/google-merchant-center) - [ **Pics.io** Pics.io is a cloud service for digital assets management built on top of Google Drive.](https://apiant.ai/connections/pics-io) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Google Merchant Center - [ **Google Merchant Center to Google Tag Manager** Tag management system for deploying and configuring website/app tracking codes, tags, and triggers without...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-merchant-center-to-google-tag-manager) - [ **Google Merchant Center to Square** Square is a commerce platform for payments, point of sale, orders, customers, catalog, and invoices.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-merchant-center-to-square) - [ **Google Merchant Center to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-merchant-center-to-hubspot) - [ **Google Merchant Center to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-merchant-center-to-salesforce) - [ **Google Merchant Center to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of Google Merchant Center's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New or Updated Product. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Pics.io when something happens in Google Merchant Center? Any of Pics.io's 11 actions, including Create Collection, Update asset, Update custom field values on assets and Add assets to collection. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Pics.io to Google Merchant Center? Yes. When something happens in Pics.io, your agent can act in Google Merchant Center too. This page covers both directions: Pics.io's triggers and Google Merchant Center's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Google Merchant Center or Pics.io? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Google Merchant Center and Pics.io without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.