25 Sept 2026 · 4 min
Jacob and Ulla explain why boutique buyers should photograph merchandise at market: to recall purchases, avoid duplicates, maintain cohesive collections, verify orders match what arrives, and preview items for customers. They show how to shoot tags, details, and multiple angles to build a visual catalog.
All right guys, it's Jacob here with Faves, and Ulla and I have a list for y'all. It is our top 5 reasons why you should take photos at market. Number 1, you want to see what you bought. Number 2, you want to avoid buying duplicate styles. Number 3, you want to support your curation. Number 4, you want to match up what you bought with what you received. Number 5, you want to be able to preview to your customers and educate your team as well. All of which you can do through the Faves app. Now, if you do not have the Faves app, it's just as important to make sure that you are taking photos, cataloging correctly, and organizing how you need to. Such as, you want to make sure that you're taking a photo of these tags. You want to make sure that you've got all the information visible on them so that you can recant what you have seen. Take photos of the products themselves. And don't necessarily take just one photo. It's always great to take a few photos because you really want to digest and remember and be able to reference back everything that you purchased when you were in that booth or with that vendor or at that showroom. And once again, if you are leveraging the Faves app, all of it will save directly to your profile just like this. Now you also want to make sure that you are avoiding those duplicate styles. As you can see on the rack, I have 2 light tobacco brown styles that I am deciding which one I like more than the other. Ultimately, the one I'm going to go with is the one in my left hand. That's the one that I like the most. I like that I have fringe on the front and back, and I just don't need 2 fringe pieces. All right, this next clip is a great example of why it's important to take photos for your merchandising curation. As you can see, I have selected multiple pieces that all coordinate well within a color story. This is gonna be my Easter Sunday collection, and I'm gonna remember to take photos of pieces so that I remember what I ordered. I need to make sure that everything coordinates how I want it to. And of course, here is an example of taking photos because I want to entice and preview to my customers in my boutique. Now, the flip side of that is right here. Here I'm going into greater detail. I am highlighting certain details such as these pearl buttons, those pockets, the lining, tag, and care instructions in here as well. So make sure you're getting all of those photos too. I even am highlighting them there, that hideaway zipper. And the fact that I'm getting this in a secondary color as well. Now, this piece has some beautiful details. It has that cross-hatching up top. It has those bows. It has pockets right here, and it has a really beautiful print. And I wanna remember all of these details, so make sure you get photos of all those details. And then this piece right here, I can see that it has a printed mesh, and then it has a liner underneath that's nice and silky. But I want those details so that I can educate them to my team. And videos are just as important here. Now, one of the last ones, of course, is to make sure that I am not receiving something I did not order. That's why I'm going through my photos to make sure everything matches up, because sometimes we get sent products that don't quite match. And that's it. We hope you enjoy our top 5 reasons.
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