How the score is calculated
Every inspection starts at 100 points. Each issue subtracts a fixed penalty by severity, and the score never drops below zero.
| Severity | Penalty | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 15 points | Blocks publishing or risks account action. |
| Warning | 5 points | Likely to be rejected or edited by the marketplace. |
| Info | 1 point | Best-practice advice, safe to publish without it. |
A single critical issue costs the same as three warnings. Always clear critical items first — they also decide the verdict on their own.
How the verdict is decided
- Pass — score 85 or above and no critical issue anywhere in the current round.
- Needs fix — issues remain, but nothing is unrecoverable. This covers most first rounds.
- Rejected — the score has collapsed under the weight of critical issues. Publishing as-is is not advisable.
The verdict stamp is pressed onto the report once the score animation finishes. It reflects the current round only — the earlier rounds stay in the history tab.
The five inspection types
| Type | What it checks | Typical finding |
|---|---|---|
| Specification | Hard marketplace limits on images and text | Image below the minimum edge, file over the size cap, unsupported format, title too long |
| Expression | Claims that marketplaces or regulators ban | Medical efficacy claims, absolute safety claims, unprovable superlatives, whitening claims |
| Rights | Third-party intellectual property risk | Competitor brand names, licensed characters, borrowed photography |
| Required information | Disclosures the destination country demands | Seller information, listing language, ingredients, net content, country of origin, shelf life |
| Image quality | Measurable quality of the artwork | Too dark, background not white, leftover EXIF metadata |
Reading the evidence
Open any finding to see why it fired. Image findings show the measured value against the limit — for example 420 px measured against a 500 px minimum. Text findings highlight the exact matched phrase inside your title, bullet or description.
Findings that come from a published marketplace or regulator rule carry a Sources link. It opens the underlying references so you can quote them to a colleague or to marketplace support.
The engine badge on the result header tells you what produced the round: rules for the deterministic ruleset alone, rules+ai when the Gemini pass added or refined findings.
Priority and filtering
Every finding gets a priority derived from its severity: P1 for critical, P2 for warning, P3 for info. The findings tab filters by inspection type and severity, so you can clear all P1 items across every image before looking at anything else.
Findings marked with the auto-fix badge can be repaired by Dodam AI without you editing files. Everything else is listed under manual handling on the fix screen.
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