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Shoppable Catalog Creator

Turn your product catalog into a shoppable flipbook where every item links straight to its own buy page with Flipbooks AI. A shopper taps a photo, lands on the product page, and checks out without hunting around your site. Built for online stores, wholesale brands, and retail teams who want a catalog that sells rather than one that only gets looked at. It stays free as the range grows, with no ads, no watermarks, and no ceiling on how many items you make shoppable.

Shoppable Catalog Creator

How to Make a Shoppable Catalog

1

Upload Your Catalog

Upload the product catalog PDF you already have. Flipbooks AI supports the common formats and turns your pages into an interactive flipbook preview with realistic page turns straight away.

2

Link Every Product

Add your logo and shop colors, pick a page turn style, then place a clickable link on each product pointing at its buy page, a cart, a size guide, or a wholesale order form.

3

Publish and Sell

Publish with one click. Copy the share link into a newsletter or message, embed the catalog on your store, or print a QR code for packaging. Shoppers can start buying immediately.

How to Create a Shoppable Catalog Flipbook

How to Create a Shoppable Catalog Flipbook

Making a shoppable catalog needs no design skills, because you start with the catalog PDF you already have. Upload it and Flipbooks AI builds an interactive flipbook preview straight away. Pick a page turn style, add your logo and shop colors, then place a clickable link on each product pointing at its page on your store. Add a video where it helps, and set whether the catalog is public or password protected. Check it on your phone the way a customer will, publish with one click, and copy the link.

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What Is a Shoppable Catalog?

A shoppable catalog is a product catalog where every item is a link. Instead of a photo, a name, and a price that a shopper has to type into a search box somewhere else, each product carries a tap target that opens its page on your store. Flipbooks AI takes the catalog PDF you already have and turns it into an interactive flipbook with pages that turn like a printed book, then lets you drop a clickable link on every product. The browsing feels like a magazine and the buying feels like your shop, because that is exactly what it is. Nothing gets lost in between.

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What Is a Shoppable Catalog?
What Is a Shoppable Catalog?
What Is a Shoppable Catalog?
What Is a Shoppable Catalog?

Catalog Formats That Sell Well This Way

Some catalogs suit this better than others, and it helps to know which. Lookbooks work beautifully, because the photography does the selling and the link only has to catch the moment somebody wants the piece. Line sheets work because a wholesale buyer wants the order form one tap away from the product. Gift guides work because they are browsed rather than searched. Spare parts and supply catalogs work because the part number is exactly what a customer struggles to type correctly. If your catalog already ends with a sentence telling people where to buy, it is a good candidate.

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Catalog Formats That Sell Well This Way

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Make the Catalog Look Like Your Store

Make the Catalog Look Like Your Store

A catalog that looks borrowed makes a shopper hesitate before they click. Flipbooks AI hands you the controls: add your logo, set your brand colors, choose a background that matches the shop, and pick a navigation style that suits the pace of the pages. Multiple languages are supported, so a brand selling in several markets can give each one its own edition without rebuilding the design. Keeping that look steady across seasons is what makes the flipbook feel like part of the store rather than a file someone sent you.

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Why a Flipbook Sells Better Than a PDF Catalog
Why a Flipbook Sells Better Than a PDF Catalog
Why a Flipbook Sells Better Than a PDF Catalog
Why a Flipbook Sells Better Than a PDF Catalog

Why a Flipbook Sells Better Than a PDF Catalog

A PDF catalog ends the sale at the page. A shopper sees something they want, then has to open a browser, find your store, search the name, and hope they picked the right variant. Plenty of people give up somewhere in that chain. A flipbook closes the gap, because the tap that shows interest is the same tap that opens the product page. You also stop being stuck with the version you emailed. Sold out of a color, changed a price, added a late arrival? Update the flipbook and everyone opening the same link sees the current catalog, with no reissue and no attachment carrying last month stock.

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Help Shoppers Find the Catalog on Google

A catalog flipbook can be set up so search engines read it, which turns a sales document into a way of finding new customers. Embedding it on your site adds real content to the page and keeps visitors reading longer, and both of those help your ranking. Give it a clear title and the words people genuinely type, like the collection name, the category, and the season, rather than an internal code only your team understands. A catalog you built for existing customers quietly starts bringing in people who had never heard of you.

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Help Shoppers Find the Catalog on Google

Shoppable Catalog Creator Alternatives

Canva

Canva

  • Free & Unlimited
  • No Watermarks
  • Product Links
  • Click Analytics
  • Mobile Ready
  • Unlimited Pages
  • Fast Loading
  • Password Protection
  • Instant Sharing
  • Secure Hosting
Flipbooks AI

Flipbooks AI

  • Free & Unlimited
  • No Watermarks
  • Product Links
  • Click Analytics
  • Mobile Ready
  • Unlimited Pages
  • Fast Loading
  • Password Protection
  • Instant Sharing
  • Secure Hosting
FlipHTML5

FlipHTML5

  • Free & Unlimited
  • No Watermarks
  • Product Links
  • Click Analytics
  • Mobile Ready
  • Unlimited Pages
  • Fast Loading
  • Password Protection
  • Instant Sharing
  • Secure Hosting
Flipsnack

Flipsnack

  • Free & Unlimited
  • No Watermarks
  • Product Links
  • Click Analytics
  • Mobile Ready
  • Unlimited Pages
  • Fast Loading
  • Password Protection
  • Instant Sharing
  • Secure Hosting
The Links You Can Put on a Product

The Links You Can Put on a Product

A product link does not have to mean the product page. Point one item at its listing, another at a category so a shopper sees every color, and a third straight at a cart with the item already in it. Link a size chart, a care guide, a stock checker, or a made to order form. Wholesale pages can link to the order sheet and the terms. You can also link out to a video review or a fitting guide hosted elsewhere. Choose per product, because a coat and a screwdriver do not need the same next step.

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Features Built for Online Stores

Flipbooks AI gives an ecommerce team what a catalog needs to earn its keep. Put a clickable link on every product so the photo, the name, and the price all point at the same page. Add a short video that shows a jacket moving or a chair being assembled. Drop in a link that adds an item straight to a cart, opens a size guide, checks stock, or loads a wholesale order form. Add a searchable table of contents so a buyer jumps to outerwear without scrolling past the homeware. All of it is free, your pages carry your branding and nothing stamped on top of it, and there is no cap on how many products you list.

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Features Built for Online Stores
Features Built for Online Stores
Features Built for Online Stores
Features Built for Online Stores

Use One Catalog Across Every Sales Channel

Most brands sell in several places at once, and keeping a catalog aligned across all of them is where the effort goes. Flipbooks AI gives you one link that works everywhere: in the newsletter, in a direct message, on the website, on a printed card in the parcel, and on a QR code at a market stall. Update it once and every channel is current. Track which channel opens it most and you learn where your buyers actually are, instead of guessing from the last conversation you happened to have.

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Use One Catalog Across Every Sales Channel
Build the Catalog With Your Team

Build the Catalog With Your Team

A catalog usually passes through a few hands: a photographer, a designer, whoever knows the stock levels, and someone who has to sign off the prices. Flipbooks AI fits that. Share a preview link so a founder or a head of sales can read the whole thing on their phone and come back with notes before anything goes out. Keep separate versions ready for different regions or seasons, and line the publish up with the day the collection actually goes live. The approval stays a conversation instead of a stack of attachments.

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Works for Every Kind of Product Catalog
Works for Every Kind of Product Catalog
Works for Every Kind of Product Catalog
Works for Every Kind of Product Catalog

Works for Every Kind of Product Catalog

A seasonal lookbook, a full wholesale line sheet, a furniture range, a spare parts catalog, a holiday gift guide: Flipbooks AI handles all of them. A twelve page capsule collection and a four hundred page trade catalog go through the same upload. Export the PDF from whatever your designer already uses, upload it, and add the links. Keep separate versions too, so retail customers see retail prices while stockists open a private version with wholesale terms, each sitting behind its own link.

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Cheaper Than Printing a Product Catalog

Printing a catalog is a real bill: design, paper, printing, and postage, and one price change means the whole run is wrong. Flipbooks AI removes that cost while making the catalog do more. Publish as many versions as you need with no print run. Change a price or pull a sold out item after launch and everyone sees it through the same link. Reach a buyer in another country at no extra cost and with no customs form. And you get click and reading data that a printed catalog could never give you.

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Cheaper Than Printing a Product Catalog

Who Uses Shoppable Catalogs

2456+

Online Stores

6

Wholesale Brands

13

Retail Teams

24

Fashion Labels

65

Homeware Brands

9

Marketplace Sellers

Shopping That Works for Every Customer

Shopping That Works for Every Customer

A catalog only sells to the people who can read it, and that is easy to forget when the design is finished and looks good on your own screen. Flipbooks AI covers the basics. Screen reader support means a customer with low vision still hears the product names and descriptions. Keyboard navigation lets anyone who cannot use a mouse move through the pages and reach the links. Readable text and clear contrast keep the pages comfortable at length. It widens who can buy from you, which is the whole point of sending a catalog out.

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Built for the Phone Where Shopping Happens

Most catalog browsing now happens on a phone, often on a sofa in the evening. Flipbooks AI makes sure the catalog holds up there. The layout adapts to the screen, the page turns stay smooth, and a shopper can pinch to zoom into fabric detail or stitching without the page falling apart. Product links stay big enough to hit with a thumb, and they open in the same tap rather than after a pinch and a squint. Everything runs in the browser, so there is no app to install and nothing standing between the link you sent and the product page you want people to reach.

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Built for the Phone Where Shopping Happens
Built for the Phone Where Shopping Happens
Built for the Phone Where Shopping Happens
Built for the Phone Where Shopping Happens

Loads Fast So Shoppers Do Not Bounce

A catalog that takes too long to open loses the sale before anybody sees a product. Flipbooks AI tunes every catalog to open quickly, including on a phone with two bars of signal. Smart compression keeps your product photography crisp while shrinking the file, and the first pages appear while heavier images finish arriving in the background. The result is that somebody who taps your link actually reaches the catalog and starts turning pages, rather than staring at a loading circle and going back to whatever they were doing.

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Loads Fast So Shoppers Do Not Bounce
Fits the Store Platform You Already Run

Fits the Store Platform You Already Run

You do not have to change how you work. Export the catalog PDF from Canva, Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher, or Google Slides and upload it. Point the product links at whatever your store runs on, whether that is Shopify, WooCommerce, Etsy, Squarespace, or a custom build, because a link is a link. Drop the embed code into your site, your newsletter platform, or a landing page. There is nothing new for your team to learn and nothing to migrate, which is usually the reason a good idea never gets used.

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A Free Catalog Tool With No Watermark
A Free Catalog Tool With No Watermark
A Free Catalog Tool With No Watermark
A Free Catalog Tool With No Watermark

A Free Catalog Tool With No Watermark

Flipbooks AI is completely free, and there is no upgrade holding back the part you actually need. Other tools stamp a logo across your product photography, cap the page count so a full range will not fit, or hide click analytics behind a subscription. Here you get unlimited pages, unlimited catalogs, clean pages carrying only your own brand, and every customization option at no cost. A small store can publish a new lookbook every season, refresh it the week stock changes, and send it to as many buyers as it likes without ever meeting a paywall.

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Keep an Archive of Past Seasons

Every catalog you publish stays available, which turns into a quiet asset over time. Last spring line sheet, the holiday gift guide, the collaboration that sold out in a week: they are all still there, still linked, still readable. New stockists can look back at what you have made. A returning customer can find the piece they saw a year ago. And when a collection is worth relaunching, you start from the catalog you already built instead of the folder of files it came from.

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Keep an Archive of Past Seasons

What Store Owners Say About the Shoppable Catalog Tool

We sent a PDF lookbook every season and could never tell what it did. Now every piece links to its product page and I can see which spreads people actually reach. The knitwear pages turn out to be where everyone stops, so that is where the new arrivals go from now on.

Marketing team
Marketing team

Product catalogs

I sell to about forty independent shops and the line sheet used to arrive as an attachment with the order form somewhere else. Putting both in one flipbook behind a password cut the back and forth enormously. Buyers open it on their phone in the shop and order from the page.

Studio owner
Studio owner

Client lookbooks

Printing our furniture catalog was the biggest single cost in the marketing year, and it was wrong the moment a price moved. The flipbook costs nothing, I fix a price in two minutes, and customers open the same link they always had. The photography looks better on screen too.

School office
School office

Newsletters and programmes

What sold me was the QR code on the packaging. People scan it after their first order, browse the rest of the range on the sofa, and tap straight through to the product. It took me an afternoon to set up and it has quietly become our second best sales channel.

Independent designer
Independent designer

Portfolio flipbooks

Keep Wholesale Prices Private

Keep Wholesale Prices Private

Wholesale terms are not for everyone who happens to have the link. Flipbooks AI protects a catalog with password access, so only the accounts you invite can open the trade version. You can also switch downloading off, which keeps your pricing and your photography from travelling further than you meant. Secure hosting handles the rest. It means one brand can run a public lookbook and a private line sheet side by side, with the same design and very different numbers, without either audience seeing the other.

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Get the Catalog in Front of Buyers Fast

Once the catalog is ready, sharing takes seconds. Copy a link into a newsletter, a message to a stockist, or a social bio. Embed the flipbook on your shop home page so it sits next to the buy buttons rather than in a downloads folder. Print a QR code on packaging, a shop window, or a trade show stand so somebody scans it and starts browsing on the spot. Password protection keeps a wholesale catalog or an early access drop limited to the accounts you invite, which matters when the prices on those pages are not the public ones.

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Get the Catalog in Front of Buyers Fast
Get the Catalog in Front of Buyers Fast
Get the Catalog in Front of Buyers Fast
Get the Catalog in Front of Buyers Fast

Small Touches That Turn Browsing Into Buying

The distance between liking something and buying it is short, and most of it is friction. Flipbooks AI lets you shave that down. Add social sharing so a customer can send a page to the person who is actually paying. Put a clear call to action on the spread rather than only at the back. Use hotspots so an outfit shot links to each piece in it separately. Add a wishlist or reminder link on a pre order page. None of these is dramatic on its own, and together they are the difference between a catalog people enjoy and a catalog people buy from.

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Small Touches That Turn Browsing Into Buying

Compare Shoppable Catalog Tools

ApplicationRatingUnlimited CreditsUsage RatingDescription
10/10Yes1

Flipbooks AI makes unlimited free shoppable catalogs with no watermarks, a clickable link on every product, embedded video, reading analytics, and pages built for phones. A good fit for online stores, wholesale brands, and retail teams who want the catalog to lead somewhere.

Flipsnack

5.2/10No2

Flipsnack is a capable flipbook maker with shopping and tracking features and a friendly editor. Free use is restricted, and removing its branding and unlocking the fuller analytics means a monthly plan.

FlipHTML5

7.1/10No3

FlipHTML5 turns PDFs into flipbooks and has a large template library. The free tier adds watermarks and limits, and the analytics and richer interactive features most catalogs want sit on a paid subscription.

Publuu

8.3/10No4

Publuu produces clean flipbooks with useful link tracking and a simple setup. Most of the features a catalog leans on, including detailed analytics and longer documents, need a paid plan.

Issuu

6.4/10No5

Issuu is a well known publishing platform with real reach and a built in audience. Its free tier carries Issuu branding and caps uploads, so a fully branded catalog usually means paying.

Canva

7.8/10No6

Canva is excellent for designing catalog pages and its templates save a lot of time. What it offers for viewing is basic, without realistic page turns or the reading analytics a sales catalog benefits from.

Heyzine

6.9/10No7

Heyzine makes attractive flipbooks with a pleasant editor and quick setup. The free plan limits how many you can publish and adds branding, with the better tools reserved for paid accounts.

Adobe InDesign

8.1/10No8

Adobe InDesign is the strongest layout tool there is for a catalog of any size. It needs a subscription and real skill, and it has no hosted flipbook or sharing layer of its own once the file is exported.

Shopify Collections

6.5/10No9

A collection page on your store is already shoppable and always in stock sync, which is genuinely hard to beat. It is a grid rather than a catalog, so the editorial pacing and the photography led browsing are lost.

PDF Catalog by Email

7.6/10No10

Sending the catalog as a plain PDF attachment is free and everyone knows how to open it. There are no page turns, no product links, no updates after it is sent, and no way to tell whether anyone read it.

Catalogs for Sales, Drops, and Trade Shows

Catalogs for Sales, Drops, and Trade Shows

Some catalogs exist for one week only, and those are often the ones that earn the most. Build a separate flipbook for a sale, a launch, a members early access drop, or the range you are taking to a trade show. Each gets its own link, its own password if it needs one, and its own analytics, so you learn which promotion actually moved stock rather than assuming. Because there is no print deadline, you can decide on a Tuesday to run a clearance on Thursday and still have a proper catalog for it.

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See Which Products Get the Clicks
See Which Products Get the Clicks
See Which Products Get the Clicks
See Which Products Get the Clicks

See Which Products Get the Clicks

Knowing what shoppers look at changes what you stock. Flipbooks AI shows how many people opened the catalog, which pages they lingered on, and where they stopped turning. Put that next to the product links and a pattern appears: the spread everyone reads, the range nobody reaches, the page where interest quietly drops away. Merchandisers use it to reorder the running order, buyers use it to plan the next season, and a sales rep can see whether a stockist opened the line sheet before the call.

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A Catalog Tool Ready for What Comes Next

Phones change, browsers change, and the way people shop keeps moving. Flipbooks AI stays current with web standards and the devices customers actually hold, and updates arrive on their own, so your catalogs pick up improvements without your team doing anything. Old links keep working as new phones arrive. Everything is hosted, so there is no software to install, patch, or renew. A catalog you publish this season will still open cleanly for a customer who finds the link two years from now.

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A Catalog Tool Ready for What Comes Next

Frequently Asked
Shoppable Catalog Creator

What is a shoppable catalog?

It is a product catalog where every item links straight to its own buy page. Flipbooks AI turns your catalog PDF into an interactive flipbook for free, then lets you place a clickable link on each product, so a shopper taps a photo and lands on your store ready to order.

Is Flipbooks AI really free for product catalogs?

Yes. It is completely free, with no watermarks, no page limits, and no cap on how many catalogs you publish. Customization, product links, sharing, password protection, and analytics are all included at no charge.

Can I link every product to its own buy page?

Yes, and that is the point of the tool. Place a link on each product image, name, or price, and point it wherever you want: the product page, a category, a size guide, an order form, or a cart with the item already in it.

Does it work with Shopify, WooCommerce, or Etsy?

It works with all of them, because a product link is just a link. Whatever platform your store runs on, you paste the product URL onto the item in the catalog and the shopper arrives on your own store page.

How do I send the catalog to customers?

Sharing is instant. Send the link by email or message, embed the flipbook on your website, or print a QR code for packaging, a shop window, or a trade show stand. Flipbooks AI hosts it, and you can lock a wholesale version with a password.

Will the catalog work on a phone?

Yes. Every catalog is fully responsive and runs in the browser, so shoppers get smooth page turns and thumb sized product links on phones, tablets, and desktops, with nothing to install first.

Can I see which products people clicked?

Yes. Analytics show how many people opened the catalog, which pages held attention, and where readers stopped turning, so you can rearrange the running order and plan what to stock next season.

Can I update the catalog after I share it?

Yes. Change a price, pull a sold out item, or add a late arrival whenever you need to and republish instantly. Everyone sees the current catalog through the same link, so there is nothing to resend.

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