Europe's largest fashion marketplace Zalando is Europe's largest pure-play fashion e-commerce platform, with roughly 50 million active customers. It's premium-leaning and fashion-focused - not a horizontal marketplace, but fashion only. That makes it a strong fit for fashion brands and a poor one for general retail.
Multi-country reach by default Zalando ships across most of Europe - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic, Sweden, and Denmark, plus growth markets. A brand approved by Zalando typically gets multi-country reach by default.
The brand-approval gate Selling on Zalando is invitation-and-application based - Zalando approves your brand before you can list. This is the most important step to know about up front. If your brand isn't approved, no integration changes that, so it's worth confirming your fit here before anything else.
Fashion-specific listing requirements After approval, listings need fashion attributes - target gender, age group, material composition, garment fit, color family, size system per country - plus high-quality images on neutral backgrounds and an accurate EAN per variant. Koongo's Zalando Partner Product Feed maps these mandatory fields, including Model ID rules for size and color variations, through the Rules Editor and Category Mapping.