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 "id": "lumencart",
 "name": "LumenCart",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "lumencart.fleeta.co.uk",
 "category": "Design & Content",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Shopify app from Fleeta that turns the product photos you already have into AI studio and lifestyle images, one at a time or in bulk, and publishes them to the product in one click. The per-credit rate stops improving at Pro. Launched August 2026, no reviews yet.",
 "best_for": "small Shopify merchants who want studio and lifestyle product shots out of the photos they already have, without hiring a photographer or a studio, and who want them published straight to the product rather than downloaded and re-uploaded — and who can size their month in credits, because the ladder is metered rather than featured",
 "skip_if": "you generate at high volume month after month: the per-credit rate stops improving at Pro, so a big catalogue keeps paying Pro's rate however far up the ladder you go. Skip it too if you need the highest-quality setting as your default, since it costs 2 credits an image and halves every allowance on the page — and if you want a track record before you trust AI imagery on your listings, because this app launched in August 2026 and carries no reviews at all",
 "honest_knock": "Two things decide whether this is cheap, and neither is the plan price. The first is that you buy credits, not images: highest quality costs 2 credits against 1 for standard, so the better setting halves every allowance on the page — Starter's 75 credits is 37 images a month, not 75.\n\nThe second is the one-off packs, which look like a convenient top-up and are the most expensive way to buy. On their own figures, 25 credits for $22 is about $0.88 a credit, while Starter's $9 for 75 is about $0.12 and Pro's $79 for 1,000 is about $0.08. A pack is roughly seven to eleven times the subscription rate per credit, so if you keep reaching for packs you are on the wrong plan. Monthly credits are described as refreshed each month with nothing said about rolling over, so assume an unused allowance is gone; the packs, by contrast, state a 12-month life.\n\nThe free tier is also smaller than it looks: 25 generations is a lifetime total for the store, not a monthly one, which is a single afternoon of trying looks across a catalogue. And the app is new — launched 8 August 2026 with no reviews at all on its listing at the time of writing — so there is no track record yet on image quality or on support.",
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  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$9",
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    "name": "Free",
    "price": "$0",
    "includes": "25 lifetime image generations for a new store"
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   {
    "name": "Starter",
    "price": "$9 a month",
    "includes": "75 credits/month; 30-day restore-point retention"
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   {
    "name": "Growth",
    "price": "$29 a month",
    "includes": "300 credits/month; 90-day restore-point retention"
   },
   {
    "name": "Pro",
    "price": "$79 a month",
    "includes": "1,000 credits/month; 180-day restore-point retention"
   },
   {
    "name": "Scale",
    "price": "$199 a month",
    "includes": "2,500 credits/month; 365-day restore-point retention"
   }
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  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(read 22 September 2026 and re-read unchanged 27 September 2026 on the vendor's own pricing page, lumencart.fleeta.co.uk/pricing) Free $0 with 25 lifetime image generations for a new store; then Starter $9, Growth $29, Pro $79 and Scale $199 a month, with annual billing taking 15% off. The Shopify listing publishes only the free plan and carries no dollar amount at all — it links out to this page with “See all pricing options”, so the App Store card is half the ladder.\n\nRead the plans in credits rather than images, because that is what you actually buy: the monthly allowances are 75, 300, 1,000 and 2,500 credits, refreshed monthly, and an image costs 1 credit at standard quality or 2 at the highest. So Starter's 75 credits is 75 standard images a month, or 37 at the better setting. Unused monthly credits do not appear to roll over — the page says refreshed monthly and says nothing about carrying them forward.\n\nOne-off credit packs sit alongside the plans and do carry a stated life: 25 credits for $22, 100 for $82, 300 for $234 and 1,000 for $749, valid for 12 months. Two things in the buyer's favour that the page states outright: technical failures and image-safety refusals do not consume credits, and the restore-point retention rises with the tier — 30, 90, 180 and 365 days. Prices are in USD and billed through Shopify, which shows the final amount before you approve it.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-27",
  "source_url": "https://lumencart.fleeta.co.uk/pricing",
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   "price": 9.0,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Starter per store, per month, billed month-to-month. From our pricing notes: “then Starter $9, Growth $29, Pro $79 and Scale $199 a month” Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-10-11.",
   "page": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/lumencart-review/"
  },
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 "free_plan_evidence": "(read 22 September 2026 and re-read unchanged 27 September 2026 on the vendor's own pricing page, lumencart.fleeta.co.uk/pricing) Free $0 with 25 lifetime image generations for a new store; then Starter $9, Growth $29, Pro $79 and Scale $199 a month, with annual billing taking 15% off.",
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   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "Read the plans in credits rather than images, because that is what you actually buy: the monthly allowances are 75, 300, 1,000 and 2,500 credits, refreshed monthly, and an image costs 1 credit at standard quality or 2 at the highest.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-27",
   "source_url": "https://lumencart.fleeta.co.uk/pricing"
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  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "(read 22 September 2026 and re-read unchanged 27 September 2026 on the vendor's own pricing page, lumencart.fleeta.co.uk/pricing) Free $0 with 25 lifetime image generations for a new store; then Starter $9, Growth $29, Pro $79 and Scale $199 a month, with annual billing taking 15% off.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-27",
   "source_url": "https://lumencart.fleeta.co.uk/pricing"
  }
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 "compare_with": {
  "name": "AdCreative.ai, Retouch4me",
  "why": "All three put AI between you and a product image, and they sit at three different points of the job. Retouch4me, from our own dossier verified 8 September 2026, retouches photographs you already shot — Photoshop-compatible plugins on perpetual licences at $145 to $179 each, or cloud retouching in packs at $24 for 100 credits. AdCreative.ai, verified 13 September 2026, makes ad creative and banners rather than catalogue photography, metered by download from roughly $29–39 a month for 10 credits up to $1,399 for 200. LumenCart generates the scene itself — studio and lifestyle images built from the photo you have — and is the only one of the three that publishes the result to the Shopify product in one click.\n\nSo the comparison is mostly about where your bottleneck is. If you have good photographs and want them cleaner, Retouch4me is the tool and its perpetual licences mean you stop paying. If you need creative for paid campaigns, AdCreative.ai is built for that and LumenCart is not. LumenCart only wins when the photograph you want does not exist and the destination is a product listing.\n\nOn evidence the other two are ahead, and by a distance: LumenCart launched in August 2026 and has no reviews at all. That is not a reason to rule it out at $9 a month, but it is the reason to spend the 25 free generations before you commit to a plan."
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 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/lumencart.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/lumencart-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/lumencart/",
  "vendor_site": "https://lumencart.fleeta.co.uk"
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  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://lumencart.fleeta.co.uk/",
  "affiliate": false,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
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 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
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  "status": "available",
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    "Plans differ by monthly credits (75, 300, 1,000 and 2,500); an image costs 1 credit at standard quality or 2 at the highest.",
    "The Free plan's 25 generations are lifetime, not monthly. Billed in USD through Shopify."
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  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
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   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
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  {
   "question_id": "lumencart:data_export",
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  {
   "question_id": "lumencart:data_location",
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   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
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  {
   "question_id": "lumencart:pricing_gap_1",
   "key": "pricing_gap_1",
   "question": "Our price check could not put a number on this part of the cost: Annual billing is stated as 15% off without printed annual amounts; the rules price monthly billing only. Can you publish the price or the rule?",
   "status": "open"
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  {
   "question_id": "lumencart:pricing_gap_2",
   "key": "pricing_gap_2",
   "question": "Our price check could not put a number on this part of the cost: One-off credit packs (25 for $22 up to 1,000 for $749, valid 12 months) depend on usage. Can you publish the price or the rule?",
   "status": "open"
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   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
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}