Guides
Guides for ecommerce product data and compliance
Practical, vendor-neutral guides for catalog, ecommerce, and compliance teams — from reading supplier data sheets and normalizing attributes to bulk imports, CE marking, GPSR, and category labelling rules in the EU, UK, and US.
Product data and documents
Read supplier documents, extract attributes, and structure product data you can reuse.
What is a product data sheet?
What a product data sheet contains, how it differs from a spec sheet or safety data sheet, and how to reuse it for listings.
Read the guideHow to extract product data from PDFs
Manual entry, PDF table tools, template parsing, and AI extraction compared — plus the checks that keep extracted specs accurate.
Read the guideProduct attributes: extract and normalize
Define an attribute schema, extract values from descriptions and datasheets, normalize units with UNECE codes, and map attributes to taxonomies.
Read the guideWhat is a safety data sheet (SDS)?
What a safety data sheet is, the 16 SDS sections, EU and US rules, SDS vs TDS, and which sections feed product listings and shipping data.
Read the guideListings and marketplaces
Bulk uploads, identifiers, item specifics, and product copy for the channels you sell on.
What is a GTIN?
GTIN formats, check digits, how to get GS1 barcodes, when a change needs a new GTIN, and how Google, eBay, Shopify, and WooCommerce use them.
Read the guideShopify bulk product upload
How to bulk upload products to Shopify with the product CSV, import apps, or the Admin API — and how to prepare clean data.
Read the guideWooCommerce bulk product upload
How to bulk upload products to WooCommerce with the built-in CSV importer, plugins, or the REST API — and how to prepare the data.
Read the guideeBay item specifics
What eBay item specifics are, required vs recommended aspects, character limits, product identifiers, and how to map supplier data to them.
Read the guideHow to write product descriptions
Turn supplier spec sheets into accurate titles, descriptions, and bullets — with channel limits, title formulas, a template, and claims to avoid.
Read the guideEU and UK product compliance
CE and UKCA marking, GPSR, declarations of conformity, responsible persons, and Digital Product Passports.
GPSR requirements for online sellers
What the EU General Product Safety Regulation asks online sellers to show in product listings, with a practical checklist.
Read the guideEU responsible person
Who can act as the EU responsible person under GPSR and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, what they must do, and where their details must appear.
Read the guideCE marking explained
What CE marking means, which products need it, self-declaration vs notified body, and the step-by-step process from legislation to affixing the mark.
Read the guideEU declaration of conformity template
The structure of an EU declaration of conformity, a fill-in template, and the mistakes that cause problems with authorities and marketplaces.
Read the guideUKCA vs CE marking
Which marking to use in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and the EU in 2026, the sector exceptions, UKNI, UK declarations, and importer labelling.
Read the guideDigital Product Passport requirements
What an EU Digital Product Passport is under ESPR, which products need one first, the 2024–2030 timeline, and how to prepare product data now.
Read the guideCategory requirements
Labelling and documentation rules for cosmetics, toys, textiles, and chemicals.
EU cosmetics labelling requirements
What a cosmetic label must show under Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, how to write the INCI list, and the new fragrance-allergen dates.
Read the guideToy safety requirements in the EU and US
EN 71 and the EU Toy Safety Directive, the new Toy Safety Regulation (EU) 2025/2509, and US CPSIA rules: ASTM F963-23, CPCs, testing and limits.
Read the guideTextile labelling requirements (EU & US)
Fibre names, composition percentages, tolerances, care labels, country of origin, and RN numbers under EU Regulation 1007/2011 and the FTC textile rules.
Read the guideUS product compliance
Certificates of conformity, CPSC rules, and what US importers and sellers need on file.