HD Fiches Produit That Rank on the Cdiscount Grid

Cdiscount Integration Tutorial Rules and the French Marketplace Stack

Cdiscount is France's second-largest general-retail marketplace after Amazon.fr and ahead of Fnac Marketplace in catalog breadth. The platform publishes an integration tutorial PDF that spells out the image contract directly — JPG, PNG, or GIF, up to 3000x3000, up to 5 MB per image. The practical minimum is 500x500 — the tutorial PDF quotes a permissive figure that reads as 500x50 in one place, which is almost certainly a doc typo for 500x500 since nothing sensible lives at the smaller shape. Partner consensus consolidates on 1500x1500 as the best practice for zoom activation on the fiche produit, which is where the tool exports by default. The main image rules read close to Amazon.fr and Fnac — face-on, filling the entire image without pixelation, on a white background. Lifestyle, angles, and in-use shots are permitted on secondary slots and five to seven HD photos per listing are the recommended range. The prohibition list is explicit and strict: no offer data overlaid on the image, no text overlays, no illustrations or embedded graphics, no separately layered logos, no drawings, no watermarks, no outbound links even secure HTTPS, and no product-feature text baked into the frame.

Cdiscount Marketplace is open registration for sellers with a French or EU legal entity, branded Cdiscount Pro on the professional-seller side. The register in French seller documentation is vous — professional B2C commerce rather than casual tu — and the platform's SME audience sits alongside international sellers targeting French consumers. Cdiscount's commercial enforcement is typically softer than Amazon.fr's at the upload gate but harder on the search side — non-compliant main images often pass ingestion and then underperform quietly in category browse and grid ranking. The tool reverses that dynamic by enforcing the integration tutorial rules at export, so the fiche produit clears both gates the first time. Face-on, pure white RGB 255, 1500-pixel square canvas, JPG under the 5 MB ceiling, no prohibited overlays. Cross-border Cdiscount coverage into Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, and Italy inherits the same image contract, and the same 1500 master works for Fnac Marketplace and Amazon.fr with minimal adjustment. Free, no sign-up, no watermark — the image-side gap between a French marketplace catalog that ranks and one that drifts.

Why the integration-tutorial spec wins the Cdiscount fiche-produit gate

Cdiscount's commercial enforcement is softer at the upload gate than Amazon.fr's but harder on the search side — non-compliant main images often pass ingestion and then underperform quietly in category browse and grid ranking, which costs sellers visibility without any explicit moderation flag. A single 1500 face-on white-background JPG that follows the integration tutorial exactly clears both gates the first time: it passes the no-overlay, no-watermark, no-illustration prohibition list, and it activates the zoom UI on the fiche produit which Cdiscount research consistently shows lifts add-to-cart by double digits. Cross-border Cdiscount coverage (Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Italy) inherits the same image contract, and the same 1500 master works for Fnac Marketplace and Amazon.fr with minimal adjustment. Save the styled and in-use shots for the secondary slots that Cdiscount explicitly recommends as five-to-seven HD photos per listing.