How do I set a try-on credit budget?

Start with your own take-rate, not a benchmark

Looksy publishes no benchmark take-rates, so the only usable input is your own store. The Free plan's unlimited try-ons make it the measurement tool: enable try-on, let real traffic use it for a few weeks, and check the analytics for how many try-ons a typical week produces. Divide try-ons by product-page sessions to get your take-rate. Note the Free plan carries Looksy branding and covers up to $100 of additional revenue, so treat it as a measuring window, not a permanent home. The ratio scales with traffic: multiply expected product-page sessions by your take-rate and you have a credit estimate that reflects your shoppers, not someone else's.

Map your monthly estimate to a plan

Each paid plan includes a set number of credits: Starter is $14.99 a month for 100 photo try-on credits, Growth is $29 for 300, and Scale is $79 for 600 credits usable on photo or realtime video try-on. Pick the plan whose included credits sit at or just above your estimate. Check the revenue ceilings alongside the credit counts: Starter covers up to $500 of additional revenue, Growth up to $1,000, and Scale is unlimited — a store whose attributed revenue is growing can outgrow a plan before its credits do. Both numbers belong in the budget.

Price the overage before you hit it

Extra credits cost $0.14 each on Starter, $0.12 on Growth, and $0.10 on Scale, billed through Shopify as you use them. The arithmetic sets your crossover points. Starter plus 100 extra credits comes to $28.99 — within a cent of Growth's $29, which includes 300 credits. So if you regularly expect more than about 200 try-ons a month, Growth buys the same volume for less. The same logic applies further up: run your estimate through each plan's base price plus overage before choosing, and note that Scale's per-credit rate is the lowest and its credits also cover video.

Watch real usage and adjust monthly

A credit budget is a starting estimate, not a commitment. Billing is usage-based through Shopify with no contracts, so you can move between plans as your real numbers come in. Check usage in the app each month and compare it with what you projected: a consistent gap in either direction is a signal to switch plans, not to keep paying overage or carrying headroom you never use. Re-run the estimate before periods when product-page traffic will change — a launch, a sale, a seasonal peak — since your take-rate multiplied by bigger traffic means more credits.

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

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