Validation.
Once your blocks are filled in, validate your FAB-DIS file with the official Easy-Check tool. The Easy-Check verification lets you identify errors in your file and obtain a compliance number recognised by all distributors.
🛠️ What Easy-Check is for ?
Easy-Check is the official tool for checking FAB-DIS files. It performs five complementary tasks:
- Check the structure and completeness of your Excel template.
- Identify blocking errors (missing fields, inconsistencies…).
- Spot recommended improvements (fields that can be enriched).
- Generate a clear, educational report.
- Provide a compliance number if your file is compliant.
✅ What the compliance number enables
The Easy-Check compliance number is your distributor passport. Three key benefits:
📋 Attestation
Certifies that your file is structured, compliant and usable by all distributors.
⚡ Smoothness
Reduces corrective exchanges with your distributors after distribution.
🎯 Prerequisite
Often required in tenders or listings.
🔁 Renewal
Tied to a specific version of the file — run the check again at each update.
📥 How to use Easy-Check?
First, log in at https://connect.fabdis.fr/.
Easy-Check is only available to FAB OFFER subscribers. To subscribe, go to your dashboard or the “Manage my subscription” panel on the side.
The process then runs in 6 steps:
- Go to the Easy-Check tab.
- Go to the “My brands” area and declare your brands.
- Go to the “Checks” area, click “Submit a file”, select your file and run the analysis.
- Find the history of your analysed files just below, in the “Checks” area. Click the dots on the side of your most recent file to download your Easy-Check report.
- If Easy-Check shows “Anomaly(ies)” in orange on your file status, there are errors: download your report and fix them. If the status shows “Compliant” in green, you have no more errors: download your compliance report and your file with the compliance number issued by Easy-Check.
- You can now share your file with one or more distributors of your choice. To do so, declare your distributors in the “My distributors” area, then choose the “Share file” option on the file to send. Select the recipient(s). You can track distributors’ downloads of your files via the “Shared files” area.
You can use Easy-Check as many times as needed during production. In fact, it is strongly recommended to detect errors as early as possible.
❗ If Easy-Check shows “Brand not recognised”
If, instead of an arrow to download your report, you see a red dot with “Brand not recognised or expired” next to it, the problem comes from one or more of the following errors:
- Presence of empty rows in one or more tabs of your FAB-DIS.
- Your FAB-DIS structure is not identical to the original (missing, reordered or added tabs or columns). The structure must remain that of the original, even if some tabs or columns are left empty.
- The brands used in your FAB-DIS are not written the same way across all tabs — check for uppercase, lowercase and extra spaces before or after.
- Not all the brands used in your FAB-DIS have been declared in the “My brands” section of the Easy-Check tab, or they were written differently there.
No empty rows · intact structure · consistent brands everywhere · brands declared identically in “My brands”.
📄 The reports Easy-Check
Easy-Check generates two types of report depending on your file status:
The error report
When you have blocking errors in your FAB-DIS file, they are listed in the error report. This report has two tabs:
📊 Anomaly summary
Shows the number of references in error in each block — a quick view of the volume of corrections to make.
🔎 Detailed support sheet
Gives the details of all the errors in your file, with their precise location (block, reference, field).
The compliance report
Once you have fixed all the blocking errors, Easy-Check lets you download: your file with the compliance number embedded + your compliance report.
This report has 4 tabs:
- “Compliant file” — explains how to read the report’s other 3 tabs.
- “Improvement points” — what you can improve in your FAB-DIS. These points are not considered errors, only ways to improve the listing of your offers. Presented in the same way as the error details in the error report.
- Summary KPIs — provides KPIs with performance percentages for each of your FAB-DIS blocks.
- Detailed KPIs — gives the breakdown of the various KPIs per FAB-DIS block for your file.
An error report is a roadmap. A compliance report is a trophy — and a business card to present to your distributors.
🔄 Do this regularly
Four habits to embed in your production routine:
- Run a check at each major stage of data entry.
- Systematically fix errors before any external sending.
- Run a final overall check just before distribution.
- Obtain compliance to share the number with your distributors.
Need to go further?
The FAB-DIS KIT contains all the FAB-DIS documentation (template, manual, tables…) so you can get hands-on right away. It is also included in the FAB OFFER.