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DoorDash photo requirements
Last checked against the platform’s documentation: August 2026
The short answer
- Size
- Cover photo: 1,400×800px
- Background
- ⚠ "Images can't have creative, overly colorful, or transparent/white backgrounds. Photoshopping a creative background onto a photo will also be cause for rejection."
- Shape
- Item photo: 16:9 landscape (1,400×800px)
- Not allowed
- NO text overlays, NO people (hands only), NO stock photos
What DoorDash requires
Everything in this section is published by DoorDash. Each line is marked as a rule or as advice, because the two are not the same thing when you are deciding what to do.
Size and shape
Item photo: 16:9 landscape (1,400×800px)Required
Cover photo: 1,400×800pxRequired
Background
⚠ "Images can't have creative, overly colorful, or transparent/white backgrounds. Photoshopping a creative background onto a photo will also be cause for rejection."Required
“Images can't have creative, overly colorful, or transparent/white backgrounds. Photoshopping a creative background onto a photo will also be cause for rejection.”
— DoorDash’s own wording
What the photo may and may not show
NO text overlays, NO people (hands only), NO stock photosRequired
“No text, graphics, borders or watermarks. Logos and text are acceptable only where they naturally appear on the item.”
— DoorDash’s own wording
Framing and lighting
The item should fill 50-70% of the frame, with at least 80% of it visibleRequired
“At least 80% of the item must be visible in the frame.”
— DoorDash’s own wording
The file
Max 16MB — but DoorDash's rejection list, on the same page, says 2MB, and neither figure is scoped to a different photo. 2MB satisfies bothRequired
Uploading and review
14 rejection categories including: Zoom, Blurry, Unappetizing, People in ShotRequired
These rules are what our DoorDash packs are built from.See what you get
Still open on DoorDash
Points we could not settle from a published source. Some are figures that circulate widely without one we could trace; on others DoorDash’s guidance reads differently in different places, or does not reach the question. Everything here is marked, so you can see what rests on a source and what does not.
- ⚠ Reviewed by hand — DoorDash publishes no turnaround
These are the rules. We build to them.
Upload one photo and get back a set sized, framed and backgrounded to exactly what is on this page. No studio, no measuring, no rejected listing.
Ready-made DoorDash packs, built from these rules:
- Enhanced1 image
- Three Surfaces3 images