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Your product image has text, a watermark, or an overlay - how to remove it per marketplace
Most marketplaces ban text, logos, watermarks, badges, and borders on the main image. Here is each marketplace's overlay rule and the fix. Run the free audit to see which of your images would fail - and fix them before upload.
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Most marketplaces ban text, logos, watermarks, badges, and borders on the main image. Here is each marketplace's overlay rule and the fix.
Allegro
Allegro prohibits added text, watermarks, icons, and store logos on gallery and thumbnail images so listings stay neutral and comparable.
Fix: Remove the overlay and re-export a clean image. CatalogPrep flags suspected overlays for manual review rather than editing the artwork.
Amazon
Amazon's main image must show only the product. Any text overlay, brand logo, promotional badge, or watermark on the main image triggers suppression.
Fix: Reshoot or use CatalogPrep's AI cleanup edit to remove the overlay (25 credits/edit). Manual review is required when the overlay is part of packaging that legitimately appears on the product.
Best Buy Marketplace
The Best Buy primary image must be free of added text, borders, watermarks, and inset graphics.
Fix: Remove overlays and re-export a clean product shot. Overlapping marks are flagged for manual review.
Cdiscount
Cdiscount prohibits offer data, text overlays, illustrations, embedded images, logos, drawings, watermarks, and outbound links on the product image. The asset must be the product on a neutral background only.
Fix: Use CatalogPrep's AI cleanup edit to remove overlays, or replace with a clean source photo. Manual review is required when the overlay is printed on the actual product packaging.
eBay
eBay prohibits marketing watermarks plus added text, logos, and URLs. A small ownership/attribution watermark is allowed only if it covers no more than 5% of the image, sits at 50% opacity or less, contains no links, and never obscures the item.
Fix: Use CatalogPrep's AI cleanup edit (25 credits/edit) to remove marketing watermarks and URLs, or upload a clean version. A small attribution mark within eBay's size and opacity limits can stay.
Lazada
The Lazada main image should be free of promotional text, watermarks, borders, and seller logos so it reads as a clean product shot.
Fix: Remove overlays and re-export a clean product shot. Text and watermark removal is flagged for manual review when the mark overlaps the product.
Mercado Libre
Mercado Libre prohibits seller-added labels like Bestseller or Lightning Deal on the product photo - those tags are awarded by the platform itself. Listings that bake promotional badges into the image are downranked.
Fix: Use CatalogPrep's AI cleanup edit to remove the overlay, or replace with a clean source photo. Manual review is required when the badge is printed on the product packaging.
Meta Commerce
Meta's catalogue guidance asks product images to show the product without promotional text, sale badges, price stickers, or brand watermarks. Meta retired its hard 20%-text ad rule in 2020, but heavy overlays still risk rejection.
Fix: Use CatalogPrep's AI cleanup edit to remove promotional overlays before pushing the asset to Meta's catalogue. Brand-on-product markings that are part of the physical product are reviewed manually.
Newegg Marketplace
Newegg's Seller Academy requires product images to be clear and borderless with no watermarks, logos, copyright notices, or seller-specific text. Decorative frames and brand overlays are rejected.
Fix: Use CatalogPrep's AI cleanup edit to remove the overlay or upload a clean source. Manual review is queued when the overlay is part of legitimate packaging artwork.
noon
noon rejects Seller SKU images that carry watermarks, prices, dates, borders, or heavy shadows so listings stay clean and truthful.
Fix: Remove the overlay and re-export a clean image. CatalogPrep flags suspected overlays for manual review rather than editing the artwork.
TikTok Shop
TikTok Shop's main product image must not include promotional text, sale badges, brand watermarks, or third-party logos. Listings with overlay text fail moderation review.
Fix: Use CatalogPrep's AI cleanup edit (25 credits) to remove the overlay, or upload a clean source asset.
Wayfair
Wayfair imagery must accurately represent the product and avoid added text or watermarks on the primary silo.
Fix: Remove overlays and re-export a clean silo; overlapping marks are flagged for manual review.
Zalando
Zalando rejects packshot and model imagery that includes brand logos, watermarks, borders, colour swatches, props, or any decorative overlay. The article must be the only visual element.
Fix: Use CatalogPrep's AI cleanup edit to remove the overlay, or upload a clean source. Decorative props or styling shoots must be retouched out before the asset can ship in a Zalando pack.