At a glance
Listings with <3 Photos is the share of your active Depop catalogue that has fewer than three photos. Photo depth drives save rate: on a visual-first resale platform, a single image rarely answers the buyer’s questions about fit, condition and detail, so single-photo listings convert poorly. This card flags how much of your shop is leaving saves on the table for want of a few extra shots.
Calculation
The card divides the count of active listings with fewer than three photos by total active listings, expressed as a percentage. Vortex IQ reads photo counts per listing from the Depop integration; the photo-count boundary is configurable in the Alert Rules tab.Worked example
A representative reading of Listings with <3 Photos for a typical pre-loved womenswear shop on Depop. Of 320 active listings, 54 carried one or two photos, putting the share at about 17 percent, above the 10 percent guide. Vortex Mind showed those listings averaged a save rate roughly half that of the four-plus-photo listings. The seller batched a reshoot of the worst offenders, adding a detail shot and a label shot to each. Within three weeks the under-three-photo share fell to 6 percent and the reshot cohort’s save rate climbed toward the shop average. To pull the exact listings to fix first, ask Ask Viq for active listings with fewer than three photos sorted by views.Sibling cards merchants should reference together
Reconciling against Depop
Where to look in Depop’s own dashboard: Depop does not report a shop-wide photo-completeness figure. To reconcile, open a sample of flagged listings in the app and confirm they carry fewer than three images. The per-listing photo count is what Vortex IQ aggregates. Why the Vortex IQ value may legitimately differ:
Cross-connector reconciliation: read this alongside hashtag health and save rate to confirm content gaps are the bottleneck. For divergence investigations, use Vortex Mind.