Image ownership
What happens to your gown photographs when you leave your current system?
This is the question nobody asks until the month they are leaving. If your gown images are served from your software vendor's domain, then what you think of as your catalogue is a set of links into someone else's building, and they work exactly as long as you keep paying. The same images are usually the ones your staff pull from when they post.
A catalogue without photographs is a list of style numbers.
When Cande Bridal Boutique moved off Bridal Web Solutions, every image was pulled down and rehosted, so the store serves its own gown photographs from its own storage. 427 of them. The remaining 197 of 625 styles had no image in Bridal Web Solutions either, which is worth knowing before anyone calls a catalogue complete.
The photographs are the visible half of this. The other half is everything a store writes once and never thinks about again. Contract bodies, email and message template bodies, scheduled message rules, supplier lead times, size charts, booking-builder configuration and per-bride notes have no export behind them. They die with the subscription. For Cande Bridal Boutique they were captured by hand from a live session, because there was no other way to get them out.