Smart Media FAQs

In the Reports area you can track who has downloaded products and images. There are two types of reports: Products Downloaded and Planograms Downloaded.

Yes, as long as the images comply with the GS1 Product Image Specifications Guideline (and also meet the minimum requirements of your trading partners).

No, you can photograph your products in-house or outsource the photography, provided the GS1 Product Image Specifications are followed.

It is recommended that only images relevant in the marketplace are stored in Smart Media. The intranet module of Smart Media is an ideal location to store archived images that are no longer required by recipients, but may prove useful to others within your business.

Trading partners can access your images as soon as you have uploaded them however scheduled downloads and internal processes may cause delays.

All photographs undertaken by GS1 Photography are uploaded into the appropriate Smart Media Catalogue automatically.

Once you delete an image, you cannot retrieve it.

Data should always be maintained in your National Product Catalogue; this will ensure the integrity of the data is maintained and all platforms leveraging this information are aligned.

To pass the full quality requirements images should:

• Conform to the GS1 naming convention
• Minimum 2000 pixels in height/width (recommended minimum 2500 pixels)
• Minimum 300 DPI in resolution
• Contain a full clipping path
• Colour mode RGB/sRGB
• Contain a defined colour space

Images that conform to these requirements satisfy the requirements of all recipients on the platform.

When a product contains an “End-availability date” in the past, the product is visible to the publisher only, not recipients. This is the case, regardless of the privacy setting.

Public: A product marked as public can be viewed by other Smart Media subscribers.

Private: A product marked as private can only be viewed by the supplier. Specific companies can also be added to view a particular product/s.

A publisher can set-up both viewer and publisher accounts. They can create, edit and delete products and images and also change the privacy status.

The catalogue administrator may set-up both viewer and manager user accounts. A viewer can view all products and the intranet but cannot make any changes, and a manager can create, edit and delete products and images and also change the privacy status.

The catalogue administrator may set-up additional viewer accounts. These users can view and download all products made available to the recipient.

A viewer can view all products but cannot make any changes.