📖 User Guide

How Try Instant Fit Works

Everything a shop needs to set it up and run it — and everything a customer needs to try a garment on. Pick your side below.

What you're setting up

You upload a photo of a garment. We turn it into a link you can share online and a QR code you can print for your shop. A customer opens it, adds a photo of themselves, and sees themselves wearing that exact garment — then shares or downloads the result. You see every try-on, every lead, and every credit spent in your dashboard.

What it does and doesn't do. Try Instant Fit places the garment photo you uploaded onto the customer. It does not invent fabric, restyle a design, or change colours. Your design appears exactly as you shot it — so upload the image you want customers to see.

Setting up your brand

Five steps, start to finish. Steps 1–3 get your first QR code live; 4 and 5 are how you control access and cost once customers start scanning.

  1. 1

    Register your brand /register

    Sign up with the details customers will see on the try-on page and on your printed QR codes.

    • Brand name — as customers know it, e.g. Khaadi, Sana Safinaz
    • Your name and position — who we contact about the account
    • WhatsApp number — where customer leads reach you, e.g. +92 300 1234567
    • Country and website URL
    • Brand logo and brand colour — these brand the customer's try-on page and their downloaded image

    Upload a clean logo here even if you're in a hurry. It's what appears on every image a customer saves and shares from your shop.

  2. 2

    Add your products Dashboard → Products & QRs

    Each product is one garment photo plus its details. Press Add Product and fill in:

    • Product image (required) — JPEG, PNG or WebP
    • Name (required) — e.g. Black Cotton Kurta
    • Price and currency, with an option to show the price on the downloaded QR
    • Description — material, fit, colour, sizes
    • Available sizes

    The garment photo decides the result quality. Shoot the piece flat or on a plain background, evenly lit, with the whole garment in frame and no crop at the hem or sleeves. A crisp, well-lit product shot is the single biggest factor in how good every try-on from that QR looks.

    Show it in your catalogue, or keep it private

    Each product carries a visibility setting, shown in your product list as a Catalogue or Private badge.

    • Catalogue — the piece appears on your public shop page, where customers browse your full range and try on anything they like
    • Private — hidden from the catalogue, reachable only by its own link or QR code. Use it for exclusive drops, VIP previews, or a single garment featured in one ad campaign
  3. 3

    Generate a QR code Products & QRs → Generate a QR Code

    Pick an existing product, choose how it should be gated, and download the printable QR.

    • Pick a product — the garment this QR tries on
    • Require a passcode to scan this QR — on for staff-controlled access, off for open scanning
    • Free/open try-on cap — required when the passcode is off. The number of try-ons allowed before the QR locks itself
    • Expiry date — optional; after it, the QR stops working

    Then Customize your printed QR — your logo, brand colour and optional price are baked into the downloadable image.

    Two ways to share the same garment

    Generating a QR gives you both a printable image and a Scan URL. Use whichever suits where the customer is:

    • QR code — for print and in person. Download the image and put it on hang tags, clothing labels, shelf talkers, window stickers or flyers. Customers point their phone camera at it and the try-on page opens; nothing to type, nothing to install.
    • Scan URL — for everything online. Press Copy URL and paste it into a Facebook or Instagram post, a WhatsApp message, a DM, an email campaign or a paid ad.

    Don't post the QR image on social media. Someone reading your post on their phone can't scan a code on that same screen — share the link instead. Keep QR codes for things people see in the real world.

  4. 4

    Control access with passcodes Products & QRs → Passcodes

    Passcodes are how you keep try-ons for real customers instead of passers-by. They are brand-wide: any active passcode of yours works on any of your passcode-gated QR codes.

    • Code — type your own, e.g. SARAH50, or auto-generate one
    • Use limit — how many try-ons that code allows in total
    • Expiry — optional cut-off date
    • Customer name — optional label so you know who you gave it to

    Codes are matched in capitals, so sarah50 and SARAH50 are the same code. Print them in capitals to save confusion at the counter.

    Ways shops use them

    • In the boutique — hand a customer a code worth 3 try-ons so they can preview colours or styles you don't have in stock in their size.
    • VIP rewards — send your best customers a personal code as a perk, with their name on it so you can see who used it.
    • Per campaign — name codes after where they came from, like VIP2026 or FACEBOOK10, and the usage count tells you which channel is working.
  5. 5

    Keep credits topped up Dashboard → Top Up Credits

    Two things use a credit — and knowing both keeps your balance predictable:

    • 1 credit per product you process — charged when you add a product, and again if you replace its image
    • 1 credit per customer try-on

    In both cases a credit is charged only when the work succeeds. A failed upload or an abandoned try-on costs you nothing.

    • Preset bundles of 100, 500, 1,000 or 5,000, or enter a custom number
    • Your rate per credit is shown live as you pick the amount, and your spend to date sits in Analytics
    • Past requests are listed under Top-up history

    Starting with welcome credits? Remember that setting up your catalogue spends some of them. Uploading 3 products leaves you 3 fewer credits for actual customer try-ons — so upload your best few pieces first rather than your whole range.

    Run out and every QR stops. Customers see: “This store has run out of try-on credits.” Credits are checked before the customer uploads a photo, so nobody wastes effort — but it's a bad look on the shop floor. Top up while you still have headroom.

How a QR decides who gets in

Four gates are checked every time someone scans, in this order. Knowing them makes counter problems obvious in seconds.

CheckResultWhat the customer sees
Your credits Blocks “This store has run out of try-on credits.” Top up to clear it.
QR active & not expired Blocks “This QR has expired.” or “This QR isn't active.” Generate a fresh one.
Free cap reached Switches It starts asking for a passcode instead — it does not die. Hand out a passcode and the same printed QR and shared link keep working.
Passcode valid Blocks Invalid, expired, or all uses spent. Issue a new code from Passcodes.

The one behaviour to remember. An open product that hits its free cap doesn't stop working — it converts to passcode-only, permanently. That's your anti-abuse valve: print the QR once, post the link as often as you like, and control access with codes from then on.

Running a Facebook or Instagram campaign

Online you share the link, not the QR code — nobody scans a QR on the screen they're already holding. An open link with a cap reaches everyone, collects a lead from every shopper, and shuts itself off before it can eat your balance.

The QR and the link are the same thing. When you generate a QR you also get its Scan URL. Print the QR for the shop floor; copy the URL for everything online. Both open the same try-on page and obey the same cap, passcode and expiry settings — so one product covers both channels.

  1. 1

    Turn the passcode off

    Anyone who taps your link can try the garment on — no code to hand out, so the campaign runs without you.

  2. 2

    Set the free try-on cap to your budget

    This is the setting that protects you. Put it at the number of try-ons you're willing to fund — say 50. When the 50th is used, the link stops offering free try-ons and asks for a passcode instead, closing the campaign on its own.

  3. 3

    Copy the Scan URL into your post

    Press Copy URL and paste it into the caption, the first comment, your bio link, a WhatsApp broadcast, or the destination of a paid ad. Every shopper who opens it gives you their name, email and WhatsApp number before their try-on starts.

A campaign that works well: “First 50 shoppers get a free virtual fitting plus a discount code.” You know the exact cost before you start, every entrant becomes a lead with a WhatsApp number, and the offer ends cleanly on its own when the cap is hit.

Set the cap deliberately. It's required whenever the passcode is off, and it's the only thing standing between a post that performs well and a drained balance. Match it to what you're prepared to spend, not to what you hope goes viral.

Leads: what you get back

Free try-ons aren't just a giveaway — they're how you build a contact list. Every shopper on an open QR enters their details and ticks a consent box before uploading a photo.

  • Full name, email, and WhatsApp number — all required, so there are no half-filled entries
  • Explicit consent — they agree that your shop will receive the details and may contact them about that design, sizing, availability or a custom order
  • Saved only after a successful try-on, so your list stays clean

Find them under the Leads tab, and download any lead as a CSV to import into your CRM or WhatsApp Business.

Follow up while it's warm. A lead here has seen themselves wearing the piece — that's a far better moment for a WhatsApp message about sizing or stock than a cold list.

On passcode try-ons, contact details are optional — the customer is already standing in your shop. Free/open try-ons are where the lead capture happens.

Tracking what's working

The Analytics tab turns try-ons into numbers you can act on.

MetricWhat it tells you
Try-OnsHow many customers have tried a garment on.
Sold and Conversion %How many of those try-ons you marked as sold, and what share that is — your real return on the campaign.
RevenueThe value of those sales.
Credits used and remainingYour balance, with a warning as you approach the end and an estimate of how many days are left at your current rate.
Try-ons per productShown against each item in your product list, so you can see which pieces pull customers in.

Mark sales as they happen. Conversion and revenue are only as accurate as what you record — a garment with heavy try-ons and no recorded sales usually means the sale went through the till without being logged, not that interest failed to convert.

Your dashboard, tab by tab

TabWhat it's for
AnalyticsTry-on volume, credits used and remaining, and spend to date. Your first stop each morning.
Products & QRsAdd and edit products, replace product images, generate and customise QR codes, manage passcodes.
CodeEmbed try-on on your own website, for selling online as well as in shop.
LeadsCustomers who tried something on and left their details. Follow these up — this is the sales output of the whole system.
ProfileBrand name, logo, colour, WhatsApp number, top-up history, and customer support.

Running it well on the shop floor

  • Brief your staff on one sentence: “Scan this, add your photo, see it on yourself.” That's the whole pitch — no training needed.
  • Place QRs where people hesitate — the fitting-room queue, a shelf of a size that's out of stock, the counter while they wait.
  • Use passcodes as a reason to talk. Handing over a code is a natural opening, and it ties the try-on to a named customer in Leads.
  • Re-shoot weak product photos. If try-ons from one QR look worse than others, the garment image is almost always why.
  • Check credits before a sale weekend, not during it.
  • Online, lead with the link. Put the Scan URL in the caption, the first comment and your bio — a customer who has to go looking for it won't.
  • Reply to DMs with the link. When someone asks “do you have this in my size?”, the try-on link answers better than a photo.

Need a hand?

We'll help you set up your first product or launch your first campaign — just ask.