E-commerce brands need a published catalog
The requirementstatement
An e-commerce brand must show a real, populated product catalog rather than a placeholder store.
- Severityseverity
- HighHIGHRejected by at least one carrier or provider, and a common cause of failure at the rest.
- When it bitesphase
- Gates approvalapprovalGet this wrong and the brand or campaign is refused at registration.
- What is checkedobject
- brand website
- Where it liveslayer
- WebsiteWEBSITE
- How Ekas settles itdetectability
- AI · crawlCRAWL
- Needs your live site or policy page fetched and read. Ekas crawls it the way a reviewer would.
- What the fix involvesfailureClass
- Fix the websiteTERMINAL_WEBSITE
- The fix lives on your site. No amount of rewording the form clears it.
- Who requires itauthorities
- TCRTwilio
- When it appliesapplicabilityText
- Applies when the vertical is RETAIL.
Why this rule existsrationale
An empty or demo store is the e-commerce version of a shell site, and it directly contradicts a campaign describing order and promotional messaging. There are no orders to notify anyone about.
How to fix itremediation
Publish the real catalog with products, prices and descriptions before registering.
Rules you will hit next
6 other rules read brand website. Fixing one field to satisfy a single rule is how a resubmission trades one rejection for another, so read these before you change anything.
WEB-012A parked or for-sale domain is not a websiteBlockingBLOCKINGWEB-013A pre-launch placeholder is not a websiteBlockingBLOCKINGWEB-016The website must be machine-crawlableBlockingBLOCKINGWEB-017The site must not be gated by geo, bot challenge or app wallBlockingBLOCKINGWEB-021The site must not be behind a login or access wallBlockingBLOCKINGWEB-022A login-gated product needs a public description pageBlockingBLOCKING
WEB-030 is one of 93 website rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.