Automotive Ads - Create a Catalog

To promote your automotive inventory on Facebook, you need to create an automotive catalog with automotive details. Your catalog is a structured data file with a list of cars to showcase. Each line of the file contains all information needed to create a vehicle listing.

To create a catalog, you should connect a data feed or upload data to Meta. The data should contain all the required fields for the vehicles that you want advertise, which are listed below.

Step 1: Set Up Your Automotive Catalog Feed

To set up a vehicles feed, you need a catalog and a feed of your inventory hosted at a location of your choice.

From your Business Manager/Commerce Manager, create a new automotive (Vehicles) catalog by using the supported format and fields for your use case:

Step 2: Create Data Feed

You can either have a single auto feed to represent all vehicles in your catalog or multiple auto feeds where each feed represents a single dealership or a specific region's vehicles.

See Reference for a list of supported formats and supported fields.

Step 3: Schedule Uploads

For details on how to schedule feed uploads, see Catalog - Schedule Product Feed Fetches.

You can download a sample feed (CSV, TSV, XML format) if you try to create an automotive catalog via Commerce Manager.

See also Direct Upload Feed Reference.

Step 4: Create Vehicle Sets

After the catalog upload is set up and working properly, you can create vehicle sets.

A vehicle set is a subset of your catalog. Vehicle sets are defined by filters that are applied to the vehicle catalog. For example, you can create a vehicle set with all vehicles with a year later than 2015.

Example - Create a vehicle set containing all the vehicles that manufactured in 2016

use FacebookAds\Object\ProductSet;
use FacebookAds\Object\Fields\ProductSetFields;

$vehicle_set = new ProductSet(null, <PRODUCT_CATALOG_ID>);

$vehicle_set->setData(array(
  ProductSetFields::NAME => 'Test Vehicle Set',
  ProductSetFields::FILTER => array(
    'year' => array(
      'eq' => 2016,
    ),
  ),
));

$vehicle_set->create();

The filter parameter is made up of the following operators and data:

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