There was a lot of discussion yesterday at both the Ecommerce Expo and the iwoca Meetup about the new eBay picture standards.
We’ve published the dates that changes will be effective from for eBay but there are a couple of things you need to be aware of. Firstly although if you have a non-compliant image on a good til cancelled listing it’ll be fine until the end of the year, it does mean that you can’t edit the listing.
What that means is, if after the 30th of October you get new stock in and want to add it to an existing listing then your image will need to meet the new guidelines. If it doesn’t the edit will fail and your listing will be ended until you correct it.
Either get your stock listed before the end of October, or make sure you’ve got new images ready to go.
The second useful tip was from Catherine at Remove The Background (Who can of course do your image editing for you). We all know eBay’s minimum picture size is now 500 pixels, but what size do you need to get the zoom feature on your listings. What about Amazon or Google? Catherine’s done the hard work finding out and here’s everything that you need to know about image sizes:
| Amazon, eBay & Google image requirements | ||||
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Image Compliance Specification |
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Minimal pixel dimension on the longest side |
1001 Apparel, 500 in all other categories | 500 | 800 | |
Size needed to activate zoom |
1001 | 1000 | N/A | |
Recommended size |
2560+ | 1600 | N/A | |
% of frame to be filled by product |
85% | 80-90% recommended | N/A> | |
Background Colour |
Pure white (RGB 255,255,255) | Plain light coloured | N/A | |
Borders, text, logos permitted? |
No | No | No | |
Watermarks permitted? |
No | Yes. eBay Seller ID or company name only. Not obscuring the item. Not larger than 5% of image. Opacity less than 50% | No | |
Mannequins permitted? |
No | Yes | Yes | |
Enforcement Date |
27th June 2013 | US: 1st July 2013 UK: 30th October 2013 Rest of EU: 2014 |
15th July 2013 | |
Consequence of not complying |
Images suppressed from search and browse results | New or revised listings will not be permitted with non-compliant images | Non-compliant items will disappear from Google Shopping | |
Final tip added from Tamebay – we know that a lot of sellers, especially those using some third party flat file tools, may host their own images and add them to eBay Gallery as URLs rather than uploading images. It’s very much preferable to upload your images to eBay and then you can let eBay picture hosting render your images for mobile devices.
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If I have an image, for example, that is 350 x 350. Is there any way to make it meat the 500 minimum.
For example could I import the image into powerpoint and save it as a jpeg with a bit more white?
Does the minimum apply to images within the variations?
Thanks
The variation pictures don’t need to meet the criteria.
I have just spoken to eBay and expressed my surprise that they had selected the busiest week of the year as a deadline.
Her suggestion was to just end the listing.
One year ago my ebay:Amazon split was 80:20 now it is 10:90.
“If it doesn’t the edit will fail and your listing will be ended until you correct it”
‘Your listing will be ended until you correct it’ – is this sentence worded right? I’ve not heard of temporarily ended listings before.
Chris & Dan your work is appreciated.
bunch of bleeding ameteurs, get some evolving done LOL
Thank you for this, very useful chart.