Most catalogs have a gap where the newest pieces should be. A lot comes in, or a customer approves a made-to-order design, and the listing waits for photos nobody has had time to take.
September's release fills much of that gap, starting from the item record you already keep. An item's details can now draw its first catalog image, and one main image can become 10 product shots. Component costs link to hundreds of items from one spreadsheet, and Shopify picks up photos and product details without retyping. On the production side, every item now shows which stage lost material.
Product images
From no photo to 10 product shots
Generate a catalog image when there's no photo
Open the image editor on an item or product with no image, such as a lot that arrived this morning or a made-to-order design, and choose Generate image with AI. It draws a square 2K image on white from the type, shape, color, attributes, and storefront description already on the record. If the first one misses, choose Try another.
The editor also lets you zoom in and drag to frame any image, and Save cropped image keeps the crop.
- Every plan
- About 30 AI credits an image
- Square, 2K, on white
Check the image against the piece, and swap in a real photo once you have one.
Relight the photo you have
Professional plans now get the full AI image studio. Four backgrounds join White and Black: Off-White, Midnight Blue, Chocolate Brown, and Beige/Ecru. The two dark ones make metal and stones stand out. You can add a Soft or Medium ground shadow, then relight the product with Soft studio, Natural window, Hard contrast, or Dramatic rim lighting.
The studio works in the inventory, product, and line item image editors. Our guide to AI product photography covers how it keeps the product's own detail while the background changes.
- Professional and up
- A shadow is a second edit, about twice the credits
- Lighting adds no extra edit
Keep every photo and video on the item
The video is on someone's phone, and the close-ups are buried in a chat thread. Media Gallery keeps them on the item, ready when a customer asks. Open it on any inventory item or product, drop in photos and videos, add captions, and drag them into order. Links to YouTube and Vimeo videos, PDFs, and CAD files work too.
The Media Gallery post walks through it in detail.
- Every plan
- Admins and managers
- Photos up to 4 MB each
- No AI credits to upload
Turn the main image into 10 scenes
In Media Gallery, choose Generate product shots with AI, then Generate 10 shots. Loupe Factory plans 10 scenes from the item's main image, storefront description, and product name, and renders each one with the main image as its reference. About two minutes later, all 10 are in the gallery, each captioned with its scene.
One puts the piece next to a stone pedestal. Another shows a hand lifting it from a velvet case. Each shot is 2K in a 4:3 frame, which leaves room to crop it square for a storefront or wider for a line sheet. A set uses about 400 AI credits, roughly $4 at the top-up rate.
- Professional and up
- About 400 AI credits a set
- 2K, 4:3
AI can change small details. Check each shot against the real piece before it goes out, especially stones and engravings.
Shopify
Take Shopify orders for pieces you'll make or restock
A made-to-order piece is out of stock by definition, and it still needs to be for sale. In Shopify sync, turn on Continue selling when out of stock, then choose Push under Products and stock. Customers can then buy those variants with no stock on hand. The switch is off by default, and with it off, each variant keeps its current Shopify setting.
Made-to-order wording and delivery estimates live in your Shopify theme, so set those up there to tell customers when to expect the piece.
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Retail Price syncs with compare-at price
Retail Price in Loupe Factory now syncs with Shopify's compare-at price, so both systems keep the same reference price.
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Shopify's categories and colors in settings
Settings now list the matching Shopify categories and color names, so your team can label products the way Shopify expects.
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Product details in variant metafields
Size, shape, quality, and product labels go to each variant's custom fields, which Shopify calls metafields, without anyone typing them again.
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Photos without a second upload
Inventory photos push to the Shopify product gallery and the matching variants. The main image stays the variant photo, and Media Gallery photos follow in gallery order.
- Professional and up
- Continue selling is off by default
Setup details are in the Shopify integration docs.
Imports
Decide what AI keeps, fills, or revises
Plenty of sheets have descriptions you've already approved next to labels nobody filled in. Advanced options in Import Inventory using AI now let you treat those columns differently.
Open Advanced options before you choose the spreadsheet, and set a level for product labels, product types, colors, storefront descriptions, and your industry's attributes. AI maps and cleans every other column as usual.
| Your sheet | Exact | Fill blanks | Revise all |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cell has a value | Kept as written | Kept as written | AI can rewrite it |
| Cell is empty | Stays empty | AI can fill it | AI can fill it |
So you can keep approved descriptions exactly as written while AI fills in missing labels, or standardize chosen fields across the whole sheet. The preview shows the result before you confirm. It marks new product types with a New badge and adds them when you confirm. A color missing from your Colors list stays on the item as written, and your list doesn't change.
- Every plan
- Admin access
- Preview before anything saves
Costing
Link component costs to hundreds of items in one upload
Linking cost components used to mean opening one item at a time. In the Component Rate Center, Bulk link from spreadsheets now reads a whole sheet instead. Each row is one item, matched by Tag ID, with up to 20 components. A component names an existing rate profile, such as Gold 18K, says how much one piece uses, and sets how its rate behaves.
- Live
- Follows the market rate. Metal profiles only.
- Locked
- Keeps the rate fixed at a point in time.
- Manual apply
- Waits for an admin to apply a new rate. A blank cell means Manual apply.
Link gold to a Live profile and that component follows the market rate on every piece in the sheet. Download the template for the columns, upload the sheet, and review every match before you save. Exact names cost nothing. A name your sheet spells differently is matched by AI once per distinct name, so a sheet usually costs a credit or two.
- Every plan
- Admin access
- 500 item rows a sheet
- 2,500 links a save
Production
See which stage is losing material
When a lot's yield comes in low, the next question is where the material went. On every inventory item, the Inventory Flow by Type cards now keep current stock apart from production history. You see what's on hand right now, rejected and scrap stock included, then what you issued, what came back, and your yield.
Click a card to pin the full breakdown. It has three parts.
- Current stock
- What's left of the original lot, plus received, rejected, and scrap stock still on hand.
- Production for the type
- What was issued, what came back, the waste, and the yield.
- Totals by stage
- Received, rejected, scrapped, issued, and wasted, split by production stage.
In the rough lot pictured, Preform wasted 342.14 ct while Rough Assorting wasted 1.83 ct. Preform is the stage to check first.
- Every plan
- Yield = received weight ÷ issued weight
- CSV export for admins and managers
Put your next batch through it
The next batch that comes in is a good test. Try it in this order.
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Import it with Advanced options set
In All Inventory, open Import Inventory using AI and expand Advanced options before you choose the file. If your descriptions are approved, set Storefront Description to Exact and Product Label to Fill blanks.
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Link its costs from one sheet
In the Component Rate Center, choose Bulk link from spreadsheets, download the template, and fill in one row per Tag ID. Check the matches before you save.
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Give every piece a picture
Generate a catalog image for anything without a photo. On Professional or above, open Media Gallery on your best piece and generate 10 product shots.
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Check its yield after the first jobs
Once the batch has been through production, open an item and click its card under Inventory Flow by Type. Look for the stage with the most waste.
What each plan includes
Every plan
- Catalog image from item details, about 30 AI credits an image
- White and Black studio backgrounds
- Media Gallery, with no AI credits to upload
- AI import controls
- Spreadsheet cost linking, for admins
- Yield by stage in Inventory Flow by Type
Professional and up
- 10 product shots, about 400 AI credits a set
- Off-White, Midnight Blue, Chocolate Brown, and Beige/Ecru backgrounds
- Soft and Medium ground shadows and four lighting styles
- Shopify sync, including continue selling, compare-at price, metafields, and photo push
Every plan includes AI credits each month: 500 on Starter, 3,000 on Professional, 9,000 on Business, and 25,000 on Enterprise. Top-ups cost $0.01 a credit. Prices and limits for each plan are on the pricing page.
Try it on your own catalog
If you already use Loupe Factory, your next upload is a good place to start. If you don't, start a 30-day Starter trial with your own spreadsheet, or book a demo and we'll walk through it with a few of your items.
Thanks so much man. Very excited this is all going live. Worked out pretty solid. Impressive!
The Starter trial lasts 30 days. You add a card to start, and nothing is charged until it ends. Professional and Business come with a 30-day money-back guarantee, no contract, and no mandatory setup fees. If you'd rather we handle setup, the optional implementation package targets go-live in two weeks, and we refund it if you're not live within 30 days after we receive your data.
