ARQR360 vs WEARFITS: What a Shoe Store Actually Gets from Each

Picture a shoe store owner in Manchester. He sells handmade leather boots online and from one small shop. Shoppers love the look. They open the size guide, compare it against their own shoes, and still hesitate. Nobody wants to guess with two hundred pound boots. So he looks into virtual try-on, and one name keeps coming up: WEARFITS. Then a retailer friend mentions ARQR360. Two options, two websites, no clear answer on which one fits a store like his.

This is the honest version.

What WEARFITS is

WEARFITS is a virtual try-on platform built around footwear and bags, the categories where tracking a real foot accurately is the hard part. Retailers add it through its API, SDK, or plugins for Shopify and WooCommerce. The platform includes AI-assisted 3D generation from 2D imagery, which is its answer to the biggest bottleneck in shoe AR: turning catalogue photos into 3D assets fast enough to cover a whole range.

It is a platform, which means your store runs the integration and manages the catalogue. On Shopify it advertises an entry point from $49 a month. That is the entry tier. What a real catalogue costs to run depends on your asset volume, your channels, and the integration setup, so treat the full figure as quote-based and ask for it in writing before you compare.

What ARQR360 is

ARQR360 is a done-for-you AR (Augmented Reality) catalogue for independent shoe stores. You send photos of your bestselling shoes and their real listed dimensions. We turn them into true-to-size AR (Augmented Reality) views, host them, and hand you links and QR codes that open the view in your customer's phone browser. No app. No platform to learn. No 3D team on your side.

The audience is different. ARQR360 is built for stores that sell shoes off the shelf, their own range or other brands, not retailers running platform integrations with in-house developers.

Price: entry tier vs one flat public rate

WEARFITS advertises from $49 a month on Shopify. That opens the platform door. The full annual cost of covering your catalogue depends on how many products you publish, which channels you sell on, and what the integration takes, so the real number is custom. Ask for a written quote for your exact catalogue size before you compare anything.

ARQR360 publishes its price: $249 one-time setup and $29 a month. Creating the AR (Augmented Reality) views from your photos is included. There is no product cap, no per-view fee, and no asset creation surcharge sitting on top.

Setup effort: integrating a platform vs sending photos

A WEARFITS project is a platform integration. You pick the integration route, connect your catalogue, and manage the pipeline as new ranges arrive. Its AI-assisted 3D generation shortens the asset work, which is genuinely useful for a store with a wide range. It is still a project your side has to run.

With ARQR360 the project is: send photos, get a working AR (Augmented Reality) catalogue back in about seven days. The links go on your product pages. The QR codes go in the shop. There is nothing to integrate and nothing to maintain.

True-to-size accuracy, and an honest word on shoes

Both routes show your shoes at true size. That matters, because a boot even slightly off teaches the customer the tool cannot be trusted. Ask both of us how scale is verified against the real shoe before you sign.

One honest line about footwear specifically. AR can show the true size of a shoe and let a shopper compare it against their own feet, but it cannot tell them how the shoe feels to wear. No platform should promise that. The honest promise is a real size idea on their own feet, in their own room, before they buy.

Who builds the 3D assets

With WEARFITS, the platform includes AI-assisted 3D generation from your 2D imagery, and you run the integration and the catalogue. You manage the source photos, the platform handles the asset production side.

With ARQR360, there is no pipeline for you to run at all. Your photos go in, finished true-to-size AR (Augmented Reality) views come back, hosted and ready. Your first one is free so you can check it against the real shoe before spending anything.

Who each one fits

WEARFITS makes sense if:

• You are a footwear or bag brand or a large retailer with a digital team
• You want to integrate try-on into your own apps and sales channels
• You have a wide range where AI-assisted asset generation saves real time
• Your budget fits a quote-based platform

ARQR360 is designed for stores like yours if:

• You are an independent shoe store or a small chain
• You hold nothing but product photos and listed sizes
• You use Shopify, WooCommerce, or a simple website
• You want shoppers to check true size against their own feet, fast
• You need one public price with no surprises

The question to ask both vendors

Before you sign anything, ask both of us the same four questions in writing: what is the full annual cost for my exact catalogue size, how are the 3D assets produced and from what source material, what happens to everything if you end the contract, and does the customer need to download an app. The answers will tell you which tool fits your store faster than any feature list.

One number that applies whichever route you take. Shopify reports that products with 3D or AR views convert about 94% better than products without. That is Shopify's own data, not ours. For the wider view of every footwear option, read the best AR tools for footwear stores in 2026.

The cheapest way to check if AR works for your store

You do not have to commit to anything to find out. Send a photo of your bestselling shoe and we will build you one true-to-size AR (Augmented Reality) view free. Point it at your own foot, check it against the real shoe, and see if your customers would use it. If it does not convince you, you have spent nothing. Try the live footwear demo first: it opens in your phone browser, no install.

Platforms aside, the reason any of this matters is the returns shelf. Why shoe stores are adding true-to-size AR covers the size problem every platform here is trying to solve.