Mercado LibreCriticalListing rejected on publication or sync

How to Fix “Moneda no coincide con el site local” in Mercado Libre

MLA publishes in ARS, MLB in BRL, MLM in MXN, and so on. Sending a different currency — or an amount with thousand separators — fails validation for that site.

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Paste your product feed URL (XML, CSV or JSON). The audit checks Moneda no coincide con el site local de Mercado Libre along with 25+ other pre-channel rules.

Why this happens

Technical root cause

Regional sellers keep one base currency internally and expect conversion at publish time. The integration passes the base amount through, and locale formatting adds separators the API does not accept.

Mercado Libre Marketplace reports it as Moneda no coincide con el site local de Mercado Libre and applies: Listing rejected on publication or sync.

Native CMS friction

  • Shopify

    One base currency per store, so cross-border sellers publish amounts in the wrong currency.

  • VTEX

    Currency depends on the trade policy, and marketplace connectors often read the default policy.

  • WooCommerce

    Multi-currency plugins keep alternate prices in meta fields that the marketplace export ignores.

Fixing it manually

  1. 1

    Confirm the site you publish to and the currency it requires.

  2. 2

    Convert prices to that currency with your own commercial rate.

  3. 3

    Send a plain number with a dot decimal separator and no thousand separators.

  4. 4

    Set the currency identifier explicitly instead of relying on defaults.

The IRONFEED automated solution

One rule, applied to every product on every export. No spreadsheets, no re-uploads.

Rule syntax
IF currency_id != site_currency(site_id)
  SET price = convert(price, site_currency(site_id))
  AND SET price = format_decimal(strip_separators(price), 2)

Run automatic linter checks before Mercado Libre Marketplace crawls your feed. IRONFEED validates every export against the channel spec, so this error is caught in Feed Review instead of in your channel dashboard.

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Attribute requirements

Mercado Libre Marketplace attribute requirements for Moneda no coincide con el site local de Mercado Libre and the matching IRONFEED transformation
AttributeMercado Libre requirementAccepted formatIRONFEED transformation
currency_idRequired; must match the siteARS | BRL | MXN | CLP | COP and so onDerived from the destination site
priceRequiredPlain number, dot decimals, no separatorsConversion plus numeric normalization

Frequently asked questions

Yes, with one export per site so each carries the correct currency and price.

You do. Mercado Libre does not convert on your behalf, so use a rate you control and refresh it regularly.

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