The Oblist is a curated marketplace. Curation keeps the assortment, presentation and buyer experience aligned with the platform's editorial direction. It is a human selection process—not a technical product-validation rule and not a judgment of the intrinsic quality of a seller's work.
Two different decisions
Assortment selection
This answers: Should this brand-new piece or collection join The Oblist's catalogue?
New products and collections that were not part of the agreed assortment should be proposed through the Vendor Dashboard chat before upload. Curation can select individual references, request more information or decide not to include them.
Under the current policy, adding a new finish/size/material variant to a model that is already Approved does not require this separate pre-approval step; it can be managed from the existing product editor.
Listing review
This answers: Is the submitted product page complete, accurate and ready to publish?
Even a piece selected for the assortment must be uploaded with complete fields and sent through the dashboard review. A prior Curation selection does not make an incomplete Draft automatically live.
Product statuses in the Vendor Dashboard
Status | Meaning |
Draft | Saved but not submitted; not live. |
Pending | Submitted and waiting for product-page review; a new piece is not live yet. |
Need Review | Feedback/action is required, or critical edits on a previously Approved piece are waiting for review. |
Rejected | Not accepted as submitted. Resubmission is available only when the dashboard allows it. |
Approved | Accepted into the publication flow. Verify the public page if it does not appear. |
Sold Out | Availability state, not a Curation decision. |
There is no fixed public Curation SLA. Follow the current status and actual feedback; repeatedly saving or resubmitting the same unchanged listing does not accelerate review.
Editing an Approved product
The platform distinguishes:
operational changes—stock, variants/options, market pricing, dimensions, lead times, attributes and related settings—which can save without a new Curation review when changed alone; and
critical presentation changes—title, description, main gallery/video, category, condition and certain base-price settings—which place the new version into Need Review.
The previously Approved version can remain live while critical changes wait. See From product edit to live for the exact field rules.
If a piece is declined or feedback is unclear
Read the feedback shown on the product first. Fin can explain the status and collect the product link, but it cannot invent a rejection reason, overturn a decision or promise acceptance.
Continue in Vendor Dashboard chat when:
a new assortment decision is required;
specific rejection feedback is missing or unclear;
a product was uploaded before selection;
a decision is commercially sensitive or disputed.
For an upload/save/sync error, provide the error and product link so the case can be routed to Tech instead of Curation.