A shoppable catalog,
made from your PDF.
A shoppable catalog is a digital catalog where each product links to the page where people buy it. To make one from a PDF, upload it to FlipWild: links already in the PDF keep working, and you draw Shop links over any other product. Readers tap through to your own store to check out. Plans start at $15 a month billed yearly, and every plan counts link taps.
Updated November 4, 2026
What makes a catalog shoppable
A printed catalog shows a product and hopes someone remembers to look it up later. A shoppable catalog closes that gap: the reader sees the product, taps it, and lands on that product's page in your store, ready to add it to the cart.
Search for "shoppable catalog" and most of what you'll find is written for big retailers and wholesale brands, with product feeds and sales teams. A small shop usually needs something simpler: the catalog you already designed, with a working link on each product, at a link you can text, email or print as a QR code.
See a finished one in our live catalog example.
Isn't a PDF with links already shoppable?
Partly. Links in a PDF work when someone opens the file. But a PDF can't tell you whether anyone opened it or tapped anything, it looks small on a phone, and once it's sent you can't fix a price. Turning the same PDF into a flipbook keeps the links and adds the parts a shop needs: pages that turn on any screen, one link that never changes, and a count of taps.
How to make a shoppable catalog from a PDF
- Export your catalog as a PDF. Up to 200 MB and 500 pages. If you put product links in while designing, keep them: web links, email links and page jumps all carry over. Working in Canva? See Canva to flipbook for the download settings that keep links.
- Upload it to FlipWild. The pages are made right in your browser. Making and previewing is free.
- Add Shop links to products. Open Links and video, drag a box over a product (or over a Shop button printed in your design) and paste the product's URL. Every plan can do this on any page.
- Add a store button. Every flipbook can show a button at the top with your own label, such as "Shop the store", linked to your shop, an email address or a phone number.
- Add photo galleries (Pro). Draw a box around a product and add more photos, so readers see other angles or colors without leaving the page. Video and animations are Pro too.
- Publish and share. You get a link, a QR code and an embed code for your website.
No time for the extra steps? Our done-for-you service adds product photos, Shop buttons, video and forms to your PDF for you.
What FlipWild does and doesn't do
Plainly, so you can decide:
- Checkout stays in your store. FlipWild doesn't take payments or run a cart. Each link goes to your own shop, so your prices, stock, discounts and checkout work exactly as they do today.
- No store sync. FlipWild doesn't connect to Shopify or any e-commerce platform, and it doesn't build pages from a product feed. You design the catalog; FlipWild makes it shoppable.
- Price changes are easy. Upload the new PDF over the old one. The link, the QR code, the embed and the reading stats stay the same.
Seeing what readers do
Every plan shows readers and link taps for each catalog, so you know whether the fall catalog got any action. On Pro, Advanced Analytics adds reads by page, time on each page, who read to the end and every reader with their taps. You can also make a tracking link for each place you share it, like "instagram" or "spring-mailer", and see which one brought readers. Pro can send page views, page turns and link taps to your own Google Analytics.
Other catalog tools with shopping features
If you want features beyond links, like product tags, a wishlist or a cart inside the catalog, other tools list them. Here's where they start, as of November 2026:
| Tool | Shopping feature | Plan it starts on | Price per month, billed yearly |
|---|---|---|---|
| FlipWild | Links on any product, a store button, link tap counts. Galleries on Pro | Starter | $15 |
| Flipsnack | Product tags | Pro | $38 |
| Publuu | Product tags and wishlist | Professional | $49 |
| Paperturn | Shopping cart, wish list, bulk import of up to 5,000 product links | Business | $384 |
Prices from each company's pricing page, checked November 2026. Prices can change. Check before you buy.
If your catalog has thousands of products and you want to import links in bulk or let shoppers build a cart inside the catalog, one of those may suit you better. If you're a small shop with a designed PDF and a store that already has a checkout, links are often all you need.
What it costs on FlipWild
Starter is $15 a month billed yearly ($19 month to month) for 2 published catalogs with links, a QR code, embed and tap counts. Plus is $32 a month billed yearly for 12 flipbooks with your logo instead of the small "Made with FlipWild" badge. Pro is $74 a month billed yearly and adds photo galleries, video, an email form and Advanced Analytics. Buy just one ($29 once) has no web links, so it won't work for a shoppable catalog. See the pricing page for the full list.
Questions
What is a shoppable catalog?
A digital catalog where each product links to the page where people can buy it. Readers flip through, tap a product and land in your store.
Can I make a shoppable PDF?
Links in a PDF do work, but a PDF can't count taps and you can't update it once it's sent. Upload the PDF to FlipWild to keep the links and add tap counts and a link that stays the same when you replace the file.
Does FlipWild work with Shopify?
FlipWild doesn't sync with Shopify or any store. You link each product to its page in your store, and customers check out there as usual.
Can customers pay inside the catalog?
No. FlipWild doesn't take payments or run a cart. Links go to your own store, so the money goes straight to you.
Can I count taps on my Shop links?
Yes. Every plan counts link taps for each catalog. Pro adds reads by page, time on each page and every reader with their taps, and can send link taps to your Google Analytics.
