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Do I need to tag all products?

Do I need to tag all products?

Written by
Guy Schragger
Reviewed by
Federica Margelli
Updated
2026-09-12
Quick Answer

No. RecoMelon does not require a catalogue-wide manual tagging project before visual discovery can work. VisualDNA™ and IntentWeave™ use product imagery to create visual relationships and attribute signals, while existing Shopify data can still contribute commercial facts and merchant-controlled structure.

RecoMelon does not depend on manual visual tagging

Large catalogues change too quickly for every useful visual characteristic to be maintained by hand. RecoMelon can derive product relationships and attributes from imagery.

What VisualDNA™ does

VisualDNA™ establishes visual relationships between products, helping RecoMelon understand which products are visually aligned.

What IntentWeave™ adds

IntentWeave™ can convert visible characteristics into structured signals such as silhouette, neckline, sleeve, texture, pattern and colour family. Those signals can support search, Dealbreaker™ Filters and other discovery experiences.

What Shopify product data is still useful?

Price, availability, variants, collections, product status and other merchant data remain important. RecoMelon reduces the need for manual visual enrichment rather than discarding the catalogue data Shopify already holds.

What about new products?

ColdStart™ helps new products enter discovery before behavioural history develops, provided useful imagery and catalogue information are available.

When might manual data still help?

Merchant-defined groupings, commercial rules or specialist attributes can still be valuable where they express information that cannot be reliably inferred from an image.

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