Turn a Yupoo album into a shopping list

Yupoo shows the goods and nothing else

A seller album is a good place to look at a garment and a bad place to plan from. There is no price on the tile. There is no size on the tile. There is no way to hold one album next to four others and see what the whole order comes to, because each album is its own page on its own account.

So the album gets copied into a note, or a browser tab stays open for a week, or the link goes into a group chat and is gone by the time the order is ready. None of those keep the photos, and the photos are the reason the album mattered.

The album address, not one photo from it

Open the album and copy the address of the album page. It has /albums/ and a number in it. A link to a single photo inside the album is a different address, and it carries that one image only — the other twenty-nine are not in it.

Album pages on Yupoo often need a uid on the end to open at all. If yours has one, keep it. If it does not, one is added when the card is saved, so the link you tap later still opens.

A card with the parts an album buries

The album is read once and the card fills in: the seller account, the album title with the sales furniture stripped out, the price when the album states one in yuan, a batch or style code when one is written in the title or the description, and the first photos.

The title is worth a note. Album titles are usually a price, a code and a shop name run together. What lands on the card is the readable part. If you had already typed your own title, yours is kept.

Six on the card, the rest one tap away

6 album photos are copied onto the card. Six is enough to judge a piece — the front, the back, the tag, a detail — and the album link on the card opens the rest at the seller.

The number on that link describes the album, not the copy. An album holding thirty photos says thirty, even though six were kept. A label that counted our own copy would tell you the album is smaller than it is, and you would stop looking.

There is a reason for six rather than everything. Yupoo refuses plain hotlinks, so each photo has to be fetched with the album named as the referrer. Every photo is a round trip. Six is the number that covers the garment without turning one paste into a large bill, and the rest are already free to look at where they live.

The measurements are usually already in the album

Sellers put the measurement table in one of two places: typed into the album description, or photographed as a tile among the product shots. Both are read. Text in the description is checked first, because text needs no guessing.

Chart tiles are held out of the gallery on purpose. A spreadsheet photo is not a product photo, and it should not take one of the six slots — but it is still kept, and still read, so a chart that only exists as a picture is not lost.

Charts on these albums are often partial. A pants chart with a hip column and nothing else is normal. A partial chart still produces a size, and it is marked as an estimate rather than presented as a measured answer. Reading a size chart covers what the columns mean.

An album and a listing are two halves of one item

Many albums name the store page for the same item, in the description or in the page data. When one is found it is added to the card as the Buy link, and the listing is read as well — which usually fills in the variants and a better price than the album stated.

You can also paste both yourself. The album and the store page land on one card rather than two, because they are the same garment. The card keeps the photos from the album and the ordering details from the store.

Three things the album cannot tell you

Stock. An album is a catalogue, not an inventory. A tile stays up long after the seller stops making the piece. Only the store page or the seller can tell you what is available now.

Which photo is the one you get. Album photos are the seller's own shots. The QC photos of your actual parcel arrive later, from your agent, and they belong on the card next to these — that is what keeping QC photos on the item is for.

Shipping weight. Almost no album states one. The estimate falls back on the category, which is why setting the category is worth the two seconds. See estimating haul weight.

Reading an album is not metered

Reading a Yupoo album has no daily counter on it. Neither does saving the card, typing a size, or opening Buy. What is counted is the store listing behind it: a paired Weidian or Taobao link is a link resolve, and free includes 20 link resolves a day. What a link resolve is lists everything one read brings back, and everything that spends one.

Reading a chart out of a photograph is counted too — 2 chart reads a day on free — because that one calls a model. A chart already typed into the album description costs nothing at all, which is the common case. What the free plan covers lists every number.

The point is the shelf, not the card

One album as a card is a tidy bookmark. Twelve albums from six different sellers, on one shelf, with sizes picked and a running total, is a plan for an order. That is the part no album page and no browser tab can do, and it is the reason to paste the link rather than save it.

Group them into a haul when you are ready to submit, and the counts, the total and the rough weight are all read off the same shelf. Organizing an agent haul covers the shelf itself.