How do I audit my catalog for try-on readiness?

Start with the image standard Looksy publishes

Looksy publishes two image criteria: clear, product-focused photos generate the best results, and for apparel, full views of the garment beat cropped shots. That is your audit standard. For each product, open its image set and ask whether at least one image shows the product clearly, without heavy styling, busy backgrounds, or partial framing that hides the item's shape. A lifestyle-only gallery, or one where every apparel shot crops at the waist, is the clearest sign a product is not ready. You are not judging photography taste, only whether the product itself is fully and plainly visible.

Run the audit as a pass, fix, or skip sheet

Export your product list, or work from a collection page, and mark each product pass, fix, or skip. Pass means at least one clear, product-focused image exists, with a full garment view for apparel. Fix means the product sells well enough to justify a reshoot or a swap to an existing uncropped image. Skip means the product is low-priority or genuinely hard to show in one clear image. The audit moves quickly because you are checking one thing per product, not rewriting pages. Keep the sheet — it doubles as your rollout order once you start enabling products.

Enable best-sellers that pass before anything else

Enable try-on on the best-sellers that passed the image check first. They get the most traffic, so you learn fastest whether results look right, and any effect on orders shows up where it matters most. Deep-catalog items can wait; a slow seller with perfect photos teaches you less than a top seller with adequate ones. If a best-seller failed the audit, that is where a photo fix pays for itself first. Working down a ranked sheet also keeps the project finishable — you are enabling a short list this week, not migrating the entire catalog in one push.

Verify each candidate on the Free plan before rollout

The Free plan includes unlimited try-ons, so the final step costs nothing: run a real try-on for every product you plan to enable, using a clear photo of yourself, and judge whether the product renders the way it looks in your photography. Results arrive in about 20 seconds and you can retry, so a shortlist takes minutes, not days. Anything that looks off goes back to the fix column — check the source image first, since that is what the published photo guidance points to. Only after a product passes this live check does it earn a place in the rollout.

Sources: the public Shopify App Store listing for Looksy. Last checked 27 July 2026.

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