Use this guide to set up your localized catalog for Product Tagging with multiple languages and countries.
Your catalog is an object (or container) of information about your products where you upload your inventory.
Meta provides localized catalog functionality, enabling you to set up your product catalog to show items in ads or shops for items in different countries. Localizing the currency, the price, and the translated name or description are common cases. You can also give a localized product URL to navigate the customer to your country or language-specific product website.
By adding localization information to your catalog, you can serve localized product information to the users based on their country or language; for example:
To set up your localized catalog for Instagram Shopping, we recommend to read:
When you add products on Instagram, you can see the product information in your own country or language. Once the post is shared with your audience, they can view product information in their own country or language as you specified in your catalog setup. Language is determined by their phone or app language settings and their country is based on location.
If you have uploaded a country feed to your catalog or set your catalog’s default country, via the Settings page in Commerce Manager, then your tags are only visible to people in the countries for which you have prices in your catalog. For example, if you:
Then:
Any items in your main feed are globally visible unless they have a corresponding override for a specific country.
Note that if you upload items in your main feed in multiple currencies, your items may appear in your tagged post in mixed currencies when globally visible.