Case study · eMAG catalogue put in order

An eMAG catalogue put in order and new product pages for over 150 lingerie and apparel listings

The TrendyUp brand sells lingerie, robes, pyjamas and hoodies on eMAG Romania and in its own store. The eMAG account had 310 listings, but the product pages were plain text with no graphics and no size charts, some listings sat inactive with stock on hand, and 16 listings had validation errors. In the "eMAG catalogue in order" stage, over 15 working days, we delivered an audit of the whole account, technical clean-up and a single graphic description template, which we used to describe 41 models and 156 listings.

  • Fashion: lingerie and loungewear
  • eMAG Romania
  • Catalogue + content
  • 15 working days
Numbers

The numbers that describe this project

  • 310listings on the eMAG account covered by the audit
  • 253listings in four apparel categories covered by the technical clean-up
  • 156listings with a new product page: 132 updates and 24 new products
  • 41models described in a single graphic template
  • 0eMAG validation errors after the work was completed (from 16 at the start)
  • 15working days from kick-off to the final report
Starting point

The client and the starting point

TrendyUp is a Romanian brand of women's lingerie and loungewear from Brașov: its own Shopify store and several years of selling on eMAG, a catalogue of around 85 products in over 200 size and colour variants.

The account audit found 310 listings in 9 categories. Listing descriptions were plain text - around 3.4 thousand characters on average, but zero images in the description; 185 listings had a description shorter than 500 characters and 196 had fewer than five photos. None of the 38 lingerie and nightwear models had a size chart or measurements. 16 listings had validation errors (13 times eMAG failed to fetch the photos, 3 times the wrong brand on the page), listings retired after EAN changes sat next to live ones, and four listings with stock on hand were inactive.

Instead of a retainer we agreed on a single stage, "eMAG catalogue in order", with a clear end: technical clean-up across all apparel (lingerie, robes, pyjamas, hoodies) and new product pages for every model in those categories.

What we did

Five steps from the audit to accepted product pages

01

Audit of the account and of catalogue page matching

We checked every one of the 310 listings: status, stock, price, RRP, validation errors, the commission pulled from the eMAG API per listing and which catalogue page its EAN leads to. 306 of 308 listings sat on the right page; two EANs pointed to another seller's pages in a completely different category - we flagged them "never send".

02

Technical clean-up

Reactivation of four robe listings with stock on hand (28 units back on sale), repair of listings with wrong prices and price ranges, brand corrected on pages from "OEM" to the client's brand, retired listings flagged, brand logo on listing pages, re-upload of photos eMAG had failed to fetch. Prices ending in .99 on every active listing. A standard S-⁠XL size chart in centimetres (bust, waist, hips) agreed with the client, because no model had one.

03

One graphic description template for the whole category

We designed an editorial-style page - ivory and gold, typography chosen for reading on a phone - with the sections: an opener with parameters (set contents, sizes, colour), "Ce conține", "Croiul și materialul", "Detalii de construcție", "Ghid de mărimi", "Întreținere", "Când și cum se poartă", a gift block and "Despre TrendyUp". The template knows the product type: intimate lingerie gets a section on returns and hygiene plus "discreet shipping", robes and pyjamas do not, hoodies get no size chart.

04

Content for 41 models and 156 listings

Every model (colour) has its own page: 8-10 graphics, a photo gallery from the client's materials (up to 11 photos) and a title following one pattern (model, feature, brand, colour). The graphics live in the client's Shopify store files, so they are her property and do not depend on our server.

05

Sending in batches and checking that eMAG accepted the changes

Updates went out in batches by category, with a pilot on a single listing. eMAG can accept a submission and, a few minutes later, reject a photo or revert a title without any message, so every batch goes into an update log: we compare what we sent with what the page shows after an hour and after a day, and the fix is matched to the error (re-sending the photo, re-sending the title and attributes, or the whole listing). That is why "sent" means "accepted and visible" for us.

Before and after

What changed on the account

before (account audit) after stage 1
graphics in the listing description 0 listings all listings in scope, 8-10 graphics per page
size chart 0 of 38 models every model, S-⁠XL in cm
live listings with fewer than 5 gallery photos 10 0, galleries of up to 11 photos
eMAG validation errors 16 0
inactive listings with stock on hand 4 (28 units) 0, reactivated
EANs leading to other sellers' pages 2, undetected 2, flagged and blocked
brand logo on pages none on every page
attributes gaps and values without a source filled in from the product page
titles mixed conventions one pattern: model, feature, brand, colour
Full pages

Two product pages in full

Two product types in the same template: lingerie and loungewear, and a hoodie. Scroll each page the way a shopper sees it on a phone.

Satin robe with lace, Alb
eMAG - product page
TrendyUp eMAG product page: satin robe with lace - 1 TrendyUp eMAG product page: satin robe with lace - 2 TrendyUp eMAG product page: satin robe with lace - 3 TrendyUp eMAG product page: satin robe with lace - 4 TrendyUp eMAG product page: satin robe with lace - 5 TrendyUp eMAG product page: satin robe with lace - 6 TrendyUp eMAG product page: satin robe with lace - 7 TrendyUp eMAG product page: satin robe with lace - 8 TrendyUp eMAG product page: satin robe with lace - 9
scroll the page to see it all ↓
Hoodie with 3D print, Roz
eMAG - product page
TrendyUp eMAG product page: hoodie with 3D print - 1 TrendyUp eMAG product page: hoodie with 3D print - 2 TrendyUp eMAG product page: hoodie with 3D print - 3 TrendyUp eMAG product page: hoodie with 3D print - 4 TrendyUp eMAG product page: hoodie with 3D print - 5 TrendyUp eMAG product page: hoodie with 3D print - 6 TrendyUp eMAG product page: hoodie with 3D print - 7 TrendyUp eMAG product page: hoodie with 3D print - 8
scroll the page to see it all ↓
Frames

Selected frames from both pages

Six fragments of the same pages - click to enlarge. The content is in Romanian, because that is how the eMAG shopper reads it.

Page opener: name, features, set contents, sizes, colour
Page opener: name, features, set contents, sizes, colour
"Ghid de mărimi": S-XL chart in centimetres and how to measure
"Ghid de mărimi": S-⁠XL chart in centimetres and how to measure
"Croiul și materialul": cut, fabric, accessories
"Croiul și materialul": cut, fabric, accessories
Hoodie page opener: no fabric composition in the header, sizes S-L
Hoodie page opener: no fabric composition in the header, sizes S-⁠L
"Când și cum se poartă": occasions and outfits
"Când și cum se poartă": occasions and outfits
Gift block
Gift block

This is one example. The scope and format of the materials depend on the category and the market - we discuss the details case by case.

What this teaches

Lessons you can carry over to your brand

An eMAG page without graphics loses even against good copy. A shopper on a phone scrolls rather than reads - a good description is a set of sections that can be scanned.

Technical clean-up first, content second. Inactive listings with stock, validation errors and EANs on other sellers' pages cost sales no matter how good the page looks.

One template per category, not per product. The template has to know how lingerie differs from a hoodie, otherwise it lies: returns, discreet shipping, size chart.

The client's store is the source of truth. Attributes are added only with evidence; an empty field beats a made-up one.

"Sent" is not "accepted". eMAG rejects photos and reverts titles without any message, so every batch has to be checked after an hour and after a day.

Do you have an eMAG account where the product pages are plain text?

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