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How long can a product title be on Amazon, Etsy and eBay?
On Amazon a product title can have 75 characters, spaces included, on eBay 80 and on Etsy 140. Paste your title, bullet points and description below to check them against the limits 11 marketplaces state in their own seller help, free and in your browser.
Checks your text against the limits 11 marketplaces state in their own seller help.
Amazon
21 stated rules
Title
- At most 75 charactersMedia products (books, music, video, software, games) are exempt, and so are the Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Türkiye and United Arab Emirates stores.
- Not allowed: “!” “$” “?” “_” “{” “}” “^” “¬” “¦”A brand name with these characters goes in the Brand name field, which is exempt.
- No word more than twicePrepositions, articles and conjunctions may repeat; brand names count like any word.
- Not allowed: “free shipping” “100% quality guaranteed” “FSA/HSA eligible”
- Not allowed: “Hot Item” “Best seller” “Top seller” (recommended)
- Not in capital letters only
- ~ # < > and * only as part of an identifier or a measurement ("Style #4301", "<10 lb"), never as decoration.
- No emojis, emoticons or symbols at the beginning of each word.
- Capitalise the first letter of each word, except prepositions, conjunctions and articles.
- More details go in Item highlights, up to 125 characters, as comma-separated phrases.
- Since 27 July 2026, titles over 75 characters are gradually replaced with Amazon's AI recommendation.
Bullet points
- At least 3 bullet points
- At most 5 bullet points
- At most 255 characters eachStated on Seller Central Europe; the US page says the limit varies by product type.
- At least 10 charactersStated on Seller Central Europe; the US page gives no number.
- Not allowed: “™” “®” “€” “…” “†” “‡” “¢” “£” “¥” “©” “±” “~” “â”
- No emoji
- Not allowed: “not applicable” “NA” “n/a” “not eligible” “yet to decide” “to be decided” “TBD” “copy pending”
- Not allowed: “eco-friendly” “environmentally friendly” “ecologically friendly” “anti-microbial” “anti-bacterial” “made from bamboo” “contains bamboo” “made from soy” “contains soy”
- Not allowed: “Full refund” “If not satisfied, send it back” “Unconditional guarantee with no limit”
- No web links or e-mail addresses
- Not in capital letters only
- Not allowed: “qty” “pkg” “w/” “approx.”Listed on the US page only.
- Each bullet point gives different product information; no company information or contact details.
- Start with a capital letter, write sentence fragments without end punctuation, and separate phrases with semicolons.
- Write the numbers one to nine as words, except in names, model numbers and measurements.
- The list of special characters also shows a plain "o", most likely a misprint of a symbol; the checker does not flag the letter o.
Description
- No HTML tagsLine breaks (</br>) are allowed.
- No web links or e-mail addresses
- Not in capital letters only
- The length limit varies by product category; Amazon's help pages state no number.
- No phone numbers, addresses, prices, availability, reviews, testimonials or time-sensitive information.
- Not read yet (Description): Category listing templates in Seller Central (seller login): description length per product type
Amazon's rules, checked Sep 23, 2026Sources (7)
- Product title requirements and guidelines (Seller Central; the Europe page states the same)
- Product detail page rules
- Product bullet point requirements (Seller Central US)
- Product bullet point requirements (Seller Central Europe)
- Optimize your product discoverability
- Product descriptions (Consumer Electronics style guide)
- Updates to improve your product titles begin on July 27 (Amazon news, 10 June 2026)
eBay
6 stated rules
Title
- At most 80 characters
- Not allowed: “?”
- No HTML tagsHTML is shown as plain text.
- No subscript, superscript or other special characters; write symbols as words ("Copyright", not ©).
- Only words about the item for sale; "fits", "for" or "compatible with" go before the compatible item's name, never before your own brand.
- Use as many of the 80 characters as you can: brand, model, colour, style, model number.
- Avoid whole words in capital letters and asterisks or other markers between words: they can lower the listing in search.
Bullet points
No rule for this in the pages we read.
Description
- At most 500000 charactersSome eBay sites allow more.
- No JavaScript, forms or plug-ins
- No web links or e-mail addressesLinks to other eBay pages, product videos, eBay-approved freight services and legally required information are allowed, over https.
- No names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, social media IDs or payment details before a sale.
- Written in the main language of the eBay site where the item is listed.
eBay's rules, checked Sep 23, 2026Sources (9)
- Optimizing your listings for Best Match
- Create great listings (Seller Center)
- Search manipulation policy
- Item description policy
- JavaScript policy
- Links policy
- Offering to buy or sell outside of eBay policy
- How to optimize your listings (eBay export)
- Trading API schema, ItemType Title and Description (eBay on GitHub)
Etsy
3 stated rules
Title
- At most 140 characters
- Only letters, numbers, punctuation, maths symbols, spaces, ™, © and ®
- “%” “:” “&” “+”: each at most once
- Fewer than 15 words is suggested; avoid repetition and subjective words such as "perfect", and leave out price and shipping.
- Search engines show only the first 50 to 60 characters of a page title, so put the most important traits first.
Bullet points
No rule for this in the pages we read.
Description
No rule for this in the pages we read.
- Not read yet (Description): https://www.etsy.com/legal (Etsy's policies answer 403 to a script): links and contact details in a description
Etsy's rules, checked Sep 23, 2026Sources (3)
Shopify
0 stated rules
Title
- Shopify states no length limit for a product title. Its search engine listing may cut a page title after 70 characters.
Bullet points
No rule for this in the pages we read.
Description
- Shopify states no length limit for a product description. Its search engine listing may cut a meta description after 320 characters.
Shopify's rules, checked Sep 23, 2026Sources (1)
Allegro
9 stated rules
Title
- At most 75 charactersAn & counts as 5 characters (it is stored as &).
- At least 12 characters
- At least 3 words
- Not allowed: “@” “!” “[” “]”Allowed in a brand name, and brackets for a size such as [38].
- Not allowed: “tanio” “najtaniej” “okazja” “nowość” “promocja” “hit”
- No emojiAllegro lists the letters, digits and signs a title may use; emoji are not among them.
- Do not repeat keywords, and name only the brand the product belongs to ("intended for" another brand).
- No user name, pick-up location, invoice, dispatch time, warehouse or internal numbers.
Bullet points
No rule for this in the pages we read.
Description
- At most 40000 bytesCounted over the whole description as sent, HTML included.
- No HTML tagsOnly h1, h2, p, ul, ol, li and b, in lower case.
- No web links or e-mail addresses
- No phone number, e-mail address, payment information or bank account number.
- No keywords meant to change search results, no holiday, warranty or expiry information, and one language only.
Allegro's rules, checked Sep 23, 2026Sources (5)
- How to create a good offer title (Allegro help for sellers)
- Wystawianie oferty produktu: title characters and description HTML (Allegro Developer Portal)
- Allegro REST API: offer name and description
- What are the rules for offer listing and description
- Rules for placing links and website URLs in the offer description
Kaufland
10 stated rules
Title
- At most 80 characters (recommended)Longer titles may be shortened or partly hidden.
- At least 50 characters (recommended)
- At most 512 charactersThe Seller API's limit for the title attribute.
- No emoji
- Not in capital letters onlyBrand names are excepted.
- Not allowed: “Best price” “free shipping”
- No symbols or unusual special characters, no strings of keywords and no seller information.
Bullet points
No rule for this in the pages we read.
Description
- At most 5000 characters (recommended)
- At least 150 characters (recommended)
- No JavaScript, forms or plug-insPlain text or HTML is fine; JavaScript is not.
- No web links or e-mail addresses
- No condition, shipping or contact details, no prices, discounts or warranty, no advertising texts or health claims.
- No bold text outside headings, no symbols in lists and no special fonts.
- Not read yet (Title, Description): https://www.kaufland.de/i/product-data/en/guideline/ (answers 403 to a script)
Kaufland's rules, checked Sep 23, 2026Sources (2)
Zalando
4 stated rules
Title
- At most 101 characters
- Not allowed: “Organic” “Eco” “Vegan” “Recycled”
- Not allowed: “wool” “silk” “gold” “silvery”Examples: Zalando removes names with any textile, precious metal or carat term, in any language.
- Names are not translated: use English or names easy to recognise in every market, the same for every colour.
Bullet points
No rule for this in the pages we read.
Description
- No HTML tags
- Not read yet (Description): https://partner.zalando.com/university/article/summary-table-zalando-attribute-requirements (partner login)
Zalando's rules, checked Sep 23, 2026Sources (2)
eMAG
2 stated rules
Title
- At most 255 characters
Bullet points
No rule for this in the pages we read.
Description
- At most 16777215 characters
- Can contain basic HTML tags.
- Not read yet (Title, Description): https://marketplace.emag.ro/infocenter/emag-academy/documentation-standards/?lang=en (eMAG Marketplace login)
eMAG's rules, checked Sep 23, 2026Sources (1)
Bol
8 stated rules
Title
- At most 70 characters (recommended)Bol's content page says 30 to 150 characters; its title guide says at most 70.
- At least 30 characters (recommended)
- Not allowed: “discount” “Father's Day” “cheap” “free” (recommended)
- No web links or e-mail addresses
- No whole words in capital letters, no English words and no symbols; start with a capital letter and separate parts with "-".
- Dutch words only, and "-" as the only hyphen.
Bullet points
No rule for this in the pages we read.
Description
- At least 500 characters (recommended)
- No HTML tagsOnly b, br, h3, li, ol, ul, p and strong; other tags are rejected.
- No web links or e-mail addresses
- Not allowed: “Environmentally friendly” “Eco” “Friend of nature” “Ecological” “Sustainable” “More sustainable” “Good for the environment” “Climate-friendly” “Non-polluting” “Biodegradable” “Emission-free” “Low carbon” “Reduced CO2 emissions” “CO2-neutral” “Climate neutral” “Climate-neutral” “Slave-free” “Conscious” “Responsible”Specific claims such as "recyclable" or "energy-saving" are allowed.
- No prices, delivery times, websites, holiday promotions or sales slogans ("While stocks last").
- The first 120 characters are used for Google Shopping, so put the most important first.
- Not too many words in capital letters, and no e-mail addresses or other personal data.
OTTO
5 stated rules
Title
- OTTO builds the product title itself for each category. You send productLine, the product's proper name (like "501"), at most 70 characters.
Bullet points
- At most 180 characters eachThe API states it for the bullet points; the checker applies it to each one.
- At least 3 characters
- No HTML tags (recommended)Formatting and block tags are allowed; any other markup is removed.
Description
- At most 1999 characters (recommended)The API asks for less than 2,000 characters.
- No HTML tags (recommended)Formatting and block tags are allowed; any other markup is removed.
OTTO's rules, checked Sep 23, 2026Sources (2)
Cdiscount
5 stated rules
Title
- At most 132 characters
- No HTML tags
- No web links or e-mail addresses
- In French, with no abbreviations, special characters (slash, backslash) or symbols.
- The short wording on the invoice holds at most 30 characters.
Bullet points
No rule for this in the pages we read.
Description
- At most 2000 charactersThe 2018 product sheet guide gave 420 characters; the current API allows 2,000.
- No HTML tags
- Special characters are rejected, masked ones too.
Cdiscount's rules, checked Sep 23, 2026Sources (3)
Quick answer
Which characters and words are not allowed in a product title?
Amazon does not allow !, $, ?, _, {, }, ^, ¬ and ¦ in a title, the same word more than twice, or promotional phrases such as “free shipping”. eBay does not allow question marks in its keywords. Etsy allows only letters, numbers, punctuation, maths symbols, spaces, ™, © and ®, and each of %, :, & and + once. The checker marks each one it finds.
Listing text limits by marketplace
| Marketplace | Title | Bullet points | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | Up to 75 characters | 3 to 5 bullet points; 10 to 255 characters each | No length stated |
| eBay | Up to 80 characters | Not stated | Up to 500,000 characters |
| Etsy | Up to 140 characters | Not stated | Not stated |
| Shopify | No length stated | Not stated | No length stated |
| Allegro | 12 to 75 characters | Not stated | Up to 40,000 bytes |
| Kaufland | 50 to 80 characters (recommended); up to 512 characters | Not stated | 150 to 5,000 characters (recommended) |
| Zalando | Up to 101 characters | Not stated | No length stated |
| eMAG | Up to 255 characters | Not stated | Up to 16,777,215 characters |
| Bol | 30 to 70 characters (recommended) | Not stated | At least 500 characters (recommended) |
| OTTO | No length stated | 3 to 180 characters each | Up to 1,999 characters (recommended) |
| Cdiscount | Up to 132 characters | Not stated | Up to 2,000 characters |
From each marketplace's seller help or API documentation, checked on 2026-09-23. “Recommended” marks a limit the marketplace suggests rather than enforces.
- Amazon: Product title requirements and guidelines (Seller Central; the Europe page states the same)
- Amazon: Product detail page rules
- Amazon: Product bullet point requirements (Seller Central US)
- Amazon: Product bullet point requirements (Seller Central Europe)
- Amazon: Optimize your product discoverability
- Amazon: Product descriptions (Consumer Electronics style guide)
- Amazon: Updates to improve your product titles begin on July 27 (Amazon news, 10 June 2026)
- eBay: Optimizing your listings for Best Match
- eBay: Create great listings (Seller Center)
- eBay: Search manipulation policy
- eBay: Item description policy
- eBay: JavaScript policy
- eBay: Links policy
- eBay: Offering to buy or sell outside of eBay policy
- eBay: How to optimize your listings (eBay export)
- eBay: Trading API schema, ItemType Title and Description (eBay on GitHub)
- Etsy: How to Create a Listing (Etsy Help Center)
- Etsy: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Shop and Listing Pages
- Etsy: Etsy Open API v3, createDraftListing: title
- Shopify: Adding and updating products (Shopify Help Center)
- Allegro: How to create a good offer title (Allegro help for sellers)
- Allegro: Wystawianie oferty produktu: title characters and description HTML (Allegro Developer Portal)
- Allegro: Allegro REST API: offer name and description
- Allegro: What are the rules for offer listing and description
- Allegro: Rules for placing links and website URLs in the offer description
- Kaufland: Product Data Guidelines (Kaufland Global Marketplace)
- Kaufland: Marketplace Seller API documentation: product data
- Zalando: Zalando article naming guidelines (Partner University)
- Zalando: Onboarding New Products: description (Zalando Merchants technical documentation)
- eMAG: eMAG Marketplace API 4.5.2: product offer name and description
- Bol: Write a good title (bol Partnerplatform)
- Bol: Content (bol Partnerplatform, Dutch)
- Bol: Write a clear item description
- Bol: Rules for your content
- Bol: Retailer API v10: Product Content (supported HTML tags)
- OTTO: OTTO Market API specification: productLine, bulletPoints, description
- OTTO: Products (OTTO Market API): HTML in free texts
- Cdiscount: Product management (Octopia API documentation)
- Cdiscount: Product error report (Octopia API documentation)
- Cdiscount: Product sheet creation guide (Cdiscount Marketplace, PDF)
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Questions
75 characters, spaces included, for every product type except media, since 27 July 2026. Amazon gradually replaces longer titles with its own suggestion; more detail goes in Item highlights.
Up to 140 characters. Etsy accepts only letters, numbers, punctuation, maths symbols, spaces, ™, © and ® in a title, and each of %, :, & and + once.
80 characters. eBay's search policy does not allow question marks in keywords, and its item description policy asks for symbols written as words.
Seller Central Europe states 10 to 255 characters per bullet point; the US page says the limit varies by product type. Amazon asks for at least 3 bullet points and shows up to 5.
Yes. It costs no credits and needs no account, and your text stays in your browser.
From each marketplace's own seller help or API documentation, read on 2026-09-23. Each marketplace lists its sources under its results. Where two of its pages disagree, the checker uses the stricter number and says which page states it.