How to submit your feed to Pinterest

Created by Collen Shoko, Modified on Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 02:34 PM by Collen Shoko

Pinterest is a great channel to market your products, especially with the recent addition of Buy pins. Pinterest users are able to purchase products directly through the platform simply by clicking 'Buy' and adding the product to a Pinterest checkout cart. Alternatively, Promoted pins can redirect users to your online store.

To submit your feed to Pinterest, you'll need to have a Pinterest Business account, which you can create here.

Follow the steps below to submit your XML feed and import your products to Pinterest. (Please note that Pinterest Buy buttons are not available worldwide).

1. Log in to your personal Pinterest account and click : (three dots) in the top right corner.

2. Click Add a free business profile
3. Follow the prompts to create your business account:
Required:

Choose at least 1 topic that describes your business
Interest in advertising - we’ll recommend which of your content to promote and provide suggestions for how to get started with your first ad
Business type
Business name

Optional:

Business email
Business website
Claim your Instagram, Etsy, or Youtube accounts

Create a new business account
If you don’t want to have your business account linked to your personal account, you can create a standalone business account. Keep in mind that you’ll have to sign in to your personal and business accounts separately.

If you have a personal account, log out
Go to pinterest.com/business/create/
Fill out your email, password and business name then select a business type
Click Create account

Convert a personal account to a business account

Log in to your account
Go to pinterest.com/business/convert/
Fill out your business name and website then select a business type
Click Create account

B. How to upload the Data Feed/Source

Go to Catalogs (catalogs.pinterest.com)
Click Get Started
Click Add data source
Make sure you have appropriately prepared your data source before ingestion
You must have a claimed domain to add a data source
Input your data source URL
A data source URL is a link to the location from where Pinterest will be able to fetch your data source
This URL must begin with http://, https://, ftp://, or sftp://, and include the full file path, and no credentials in the URL)
Your Pinterest feed can be found in ShoppingFeeder: see these steps to generate your feed
Click Create Pins
After you click Create Pins, you'll land back at the main Data Source page. Your feed is being processed - wait for a confirmation email from Pinterest for the status of your data source submission