PinterestThe Pinterest catalog feed that clears Pinterest’s image bar
Pinterest is where people plan a room before they buy it — and it asks for a bigger main product image than anywhere else you publish: at least 1000×1500 pixels, taller than it is wide. A catalog built for Google quietly falls short of that. Renable writes the Pinterest feed, checks every product against Pinterest’s own rules, and shows you which images don’t reach the bar.
Output
feeds.renable.com/pinecraft/pinterest.xml
Simplified view of a channel’s pre-publish checks, for illustration.
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Pinterest wants a taller, bigger image than any other channel
Pinterest’s main product image floor is 1000×1500 pixels — portrait, and by a wide margin the largest image any destination Renable writes for asks of you. Pinterest is a visual planning surface, so the picture is the product. That single number is the biggest difference between a Pinterest catalog and every other feed you run.
Most store catalogs were built for a square Google or Meta listing, so their images are square and often small. They pass everywhere else and fall short here — quietly, product by product. Renable surfaces the shortfall as a fill hint on the channel, so you can see exactly how much of your catalog reaches the bar before you hand Pinterest the feed.
The shortfall is shown, not hidden. Renable flags the products whose main image doesn’t reach Pinterest’s floor so you can fix them at the source or render a bigger portrait image for this channel.
Simplified view of a channel’s image coverage, for illustration.
The main image floor is 1000×1500
Portrait, and larger than any other destination asks for. Renable surfaces it as a fill hint per product — we show you what falls short rather than pretending a feed tool can guarantee the pixels behind someone else’s image URL.
Availability is strict, and spelled with a space
Pinterest writes availability with a space and has no backorder value at all — and unlike some destinations it rejects Google’s underscore form outright rather than shrugging it off. Renable rewrites the value for this channel only.
Product links are capped at 511 characters
Stricter than Google. A long UTM string or a tracking wrapper is enough to push a working URL over the line, so Renable measures every link against Pinterest’s limit before the feed goes out.
Field lengths of its own
Title up to 500 characters, description up to 10,000, id up to 127, custom labels up to 511, and up to 10 extra product images at 75×75 or larger. Renable writes to Pinterest’s numbers, not the ones your Google feed was built for.
None of these throw an error you’d notice from your side. They shrink your catalog product by product and leave you wondering why Pinterest looks thinner than your other channels. The named channel checks every one of them before you publish.
What Renable feeds Pinterest
One catalog, cleaned once, written in the shape each destination expects. On Pinterest that means the fields it requires, the lengths it enforces, and images built for a portrait surface.
A clean, mapped feed
Your data mapped to Pinterest’s catalog fields — id, title, description, link, image_link, price and availability, plus item_group_id where you have variants — corrected by rules and lookups, and re-imported roughly every hour so prices and stock stay fresh.
Fix the feed IT won’t touchCopy written for a planning surface
AI writes titles and descriptions from each product’s own data and fact-checks every claim against it, in each market’s language — inside Pinterest’s own limits of 500 characters for a title and 10,000 for a description.
See how the copy is writtenImages built portrait, on purpose
Pinterest’s image bar is a creative problem, not a data problem. Design one template and render a tall, on-brand image for every product — then carry up to 10 extra product images alongside it.
One template. Every size, still yours.Used for
Shopping ads is the core use case — setting up the Pinterest channel turns it on. Product video: carries your product video URL in the catalog. Extra product images: up to 10 per product, each at least 75×75 pixels.
FreshnessPinterest comes for your feed once a day. Be ready when it does.
Pinterest’s own words: “We ingest your data source once every 24 hours.” You choose the time of day, and that’s the whole schedule — there’s no faster cycle and no button that makes it fetch now. Which means the only thing you actually control is whether the file it finds is current.
Renable re-imports your data roughly every hour and rewrites the hosted feed each time, so whatever moment Pinterest arrives, it reads today’s prices and today’s stock. You paste the URL once. UTF-8, the encoding Pinterest requires, is what Renable writes — as RSS XML, CSV or TSV, whichever your setup prefers.
Feed lifecycle
Renable
refreshed hourly
Hosted URL
always current
every 24 hours
Simplified view of the feed lifecycle, for illustration.
Keep the catalog you have. Fix only what’s wrong.
Pinterest supports supplemental data sources, and so does Renable. Leave the catalog you’re running exactly where it is, add a Renable supplemental feed on top, and override only the fields you want — the portrait images, the rewritten titles, the availability values Pinterest is strict about. Everything else keeps coming from your main source.
Everything else on the product stays exactly as your main data source sends it — the supplemental feed only carries the fields listed here.
Simplified view of a supplemental feed, for illustration.
“Why isn’t my Pinterest catalog showing my products?”
Pinterest won’t hand you a list of which products fell out or why, and the usual causes look like nothing at all from your side. Renable catches them before the feed goes out, names the exact products, and tells you what to change. Here’s what it usually is:
What the trace found
In the channel’s product setapplied
scope: included
Exclude rulesapplied
no match — kept
Destination check · availabilitydidn’t apply
in_stock → rejected by Pinterest
Pinterest expects in stock with a space, and rejects Google’s underscore form. Renable can rewrite it for this channel only, leaving your Google feed untouched.
Simplified view of a channel trace, for illustration.
Aimée
Why is the Alder Dining Chair missing from my Pinterest catalog?
It’s in the product set and no rule excluded it. Its availability is written in_stock, which Pinterest rejects — it wants a space. 86 products have the same problem, and 361 more have a main image below Pinterest’s 1000×1500 floor.
Traced Alder Dining Chair · found the gap
Or just ask Aimée
Skip the digging. Ask why a product isn’t in the catalog and Aimée reads the same checks and logs, names the step that dropped it, and drafts the fix — for you to publish.
SetupFrom a store URL to a Pinterest feed, in one conversation
Ask Aimée for a Pinterest channel and she imports the catalog, maps it to Pinterest’s fields, applies its own rules on top, and tells you exactly which products needed changing. Configuration is human-gated: everything she builds is a draft until you publish it.
Renable hosts the feed at a stable URL. You add it once as a data source in Pinterest, pick the hour it should run, and updates flow through on their own. Pinterest handles catalogs of up to 20 million products, so size isn’t the thing standing in your way.
Aimée
Set up a Pinterest channel for pinecrafthome.com.
On it. I’ll import the store, map the feed to Pinterest’s catalog fields, and check every product against its spec — the image floor included. Everything lands as a draft first.
Built a Pinterest channel · 1,208 products
Publish, and I’ll hand you the feed URL to add as a data source in Pinterest.
Renable builds the feed and the creative. Pinterest runs the campaigns.
What Renable controls is that Pinterest gets the best possible version of every product — a clean feed in a shape it actually reads, images built for a portrait surface, and every field checked against its spec before it goes out.
Budgets, bidding, targeting and delivery stay in Pinterest Ads. Renable doesn’t manage your campaigns, and it never learns whether Pinterest approved an individual product — that status lives in your Pinterest account.
A few things are yours alone, too: the business account, the claimed website, the Pinterest tag, and a store that meets Pinterest’s merchant guidelines. We’ll tell you what’s missing; we can’t do them for you.
Everything above, on the free tier
Channels aren’t a paid add-on. Add Pinterest alongside the channels you already run and pay only for the feed items your rules keep.
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