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slug: introducing-silk-cave
title: Introducing Silk Cave
summary: Silk Cave adds AI virtual try-on to a store's product pages with one script tag. What shoppers and stores do, how photos are kept, and what it does not do yet.
category: product
author: silkcave
cover: demo-store-en.webp
coverAlt: The jacket product page of the demo store with the Try on sheet open on the right, showing the jacket photo and a Try on with my photo button.
coverTag: Demo store capture · fictional photos
---

Silk Cave adds AI virtual try-on (also called virtual fitting) to the product pages of an online store. The store adds one script tag, and shoppers see themselves wearing the garment, with their own photo, on the page they were viewing. This post introduces the product as it works today.

## A thin layer over the product page

Once the tag is in place, a Try on button appears in the purchase area of product pages or in a corner of the screen. Pressing it opens a sheet right there, without leaving the page. On phones it rises from the bottom and on wide screens it docks beside the store, so the store stays visible while it is open. Silk Cave draws the sheet in a separate layer that does not mix with the store's styles, and it does not change the store's photos or descriptions. Page speed is answered in [whether it slows your store down](/faq#speed).

## What shoppers do

Shoppers press Try on and choose one photo or a ready-made avatar. When they press Try on in the sheet, the garment appears on them where the photo was, with an AI-generated mark, and they can switch back and forth with the original photo. The photo chosen once is used for other garments too.

:::compare
![Product photo: a jacket from the demo catalog](tryon-garment.webp){tag="Fictional photo"}
![Original photo: a fictional model from the demo collection](tryon-before.webp){tag="Fictional model"}
![Try-on result: made from the two photos before it](tryon-after.webp){tag="AI-generated"}
:::

The third photo is a result Silk Cave actually generated from the first two, only reduced in size.

When a product has a size chart, shoppers enter their height and weight and see the room at each body area for each size in a fit report. The numbers are shown as ranges and do not recommend a size or say that it fits. If the store has opened it, shoppers can also try the garment on in a chosen size. When they ask in the chat box, the stylist (AI) answers with this store's clothes. Pressing Go to purchase returns them to the purchase area of the product they were viewing, and ordering and payment happen in the store.

## What the store does

The store registers its site, starts a trial and pastes the line the console gives it into the head field of its admin, once. There is nothing to install per product, and a tag-only installation requests no access to product or member data. Opening a product page once lets the server verify the installation; the store then chooses where Try on stands and makes its first try-on in its own store.

:::figure{tag="Console capture · fictional site"}
![Site overview in the Silk Cave console: four of the five steps to the first generation are done, and the installation panel shows Verified](console-verified-en.webp)
The console's site overview shows the current step at the top. This example was made with a fictional site.
:::

Where to paste the line on each platform is in the [platform installation guides](/#install), [how to add it to a Cafe24 store](/faq#cafe24) and [installing on imweb and Shopify](/faq#others). Cafe24 and imweb are Korean store platforms.

## Photos and privacy

A shopper's photo is sent when they press Try on; until then it stays in the browser. Photos and results of shoppers who are not signed in are deleted automatically from Silk Cave's server after 24 hours, and those of shoppers signed in to a Silk Cave account stay in the account, where they can delete them. Saved result files keep the AI-generated mark too, and the store's console does not show shoppers' original photos or body details. Silk Cave uses no cookies on store pages. The full scope, including how external AI services keep photos, is in [what happens to shoppers' photos](/faq#kept) and the [Privacy Policy](/privacy).

## Pricing

Each site has one plan, and its usage is not pooled with other sites. There is a free trial that starts without a card, and paid plans are ordered in the console and are not charged again automatically. Pay-as-you-go, using the images you top up, is also available. The price and allowance of each plan are in the [pricing table](/#price).

## What it does not do yet

Results are AI-generated images, so they may differ from the actual fit, color and details. When a size is hard to reflect, the try-on continues as a regular one and the result says so. See also [how virtual try-on differs from size recommendation](/faq#size). Beyond that, this is what it does not do now.

- It does not work on marketplaces where a store cannot add a script to the head.
- One try-on is made from one product photo. It does not dress several products together in one image.
- It does not make public addresses for shoppers' results. When shoppers share, the result file and the product link are passed on.

## Getting started

The [demo store](/demo) is a fictional brand's store with the real tag on it, so you can try it on as a shopper without signing up. Enter a product page URL in Try on my store at the end of this post to see Silk Cave on your own product page, also without signing up. To install, begin at [Start free](/console/start).