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Meetanshi PDF Product Catalog - Shopify App

The Meetanshi PDF Product Catalog app makes it easy to convert products into digital catalogs, which you can share with customers and retailers. It offers various design layouts and customization options for all types of businesses.

How to Create a PDF Product Catalog in Shopify?

Step 1: Create a New Catalog

In the app dashboard, you’ll find a list of created PDF catalogs in your store.

Click Create a new catalog to start creating one.

Shopify app dashboard for creating a new PDF product catalog

Then, enter a name for the catalog.

Step 2: Select Products

You can add products in three ways:

  • Choose products directly
  • Use a filter to add matching products
  • Select the collection(s) to add products
Options for selecting products in Shopify PDF catalog app

Option 1: Add products

Click the Add product button to search for products and add them manually.

Manually adding products in Shopify PDF catalog app

Option 2: Add Products Using Filters

Click Add products using filters to find and add products to the catalog.

Here, you can apply filters like:

  • Product status
  • Vendors
  • Product types
  • Product tags
  • Product prices
Adding products using filters in Shopify PDF catalog app

Option 3: Add Products by Collection(s)

Click Add a collection to add products by specific collections to the product catalog.

Adding products by collections in Shopify PDF catalog app

You also get a choice to select and exclude out-of-stock products and exclude non-in-store products.

Once you’ve added products, click Save and Continue.

Save and continue button for products in Shopify PDF catalog app

Step 3: Customize & Preview Catalog

You’ll get a side-by-side view of catalog configuration and preview.

Side-by-side view of catalog customization and preview in Shopify

General Settings

You can select the following options:

  • Font family for catalog text
  • Logo image to be displayed on catalog
  • Images for front and last pages of the PDF
  • Header and footer text with alignment
  • Include page number in the PDF product catalog
  • Display date and its format
  • Choose font color and background color for the PDF
  • Set print quality of the PDF file
General settings for customizing Shopify PDF product catalog

Product Settings

  • Select the attributes that you want to add along with the products
  • Set the alignment of the displayed product attributes
  • Display a Buy Now button in the PDF
  • Set a character limit for the product description
  • Use price adjustment option to modify prices in the PDF (increase or decrease)
  • Add the tax percentage to the product price for the PDF
  • Set a background color for the products
  • Set the attribute label text color
  • Set the color of the attribute value
  • Include UTM parameters for tracking visits from catalogs
Product settings for Shopify PDF product catalog

Layout Settings

Finally, in the Layout settings, choose from 15+ ready-made layout designs for your PDF catalog file. You can select one and preview it in the right side.

Layout settings with design options for Shopify PDF catalog

Once everything looks good, click Save and Generate PDF.

You can then view or download the generated product catalog PDF file from the dashboard.

Preview of generated PDF product catalog in Shopify app

The app offers a flipbook URL of the PDF file, which makes it super-interactive for the customers.

For example:

Example of interactive flipbook URL for Shopify PDF catalog

How to Display Download PDF / Print PDF Button Collection Page?

In the edit catalog screen, you get an option to assign the catalog to collection(s). You can use this feature to display a download PDF catalog button on the selected collection(s) on the frontend.

For this, assign the relevant collection to the catalog using the Select collection to add option.

Assigning catalog to collections in Shopify app

Then, go to Online Store > Themes and click Customize.

Open the collection page for which you created the catalog. In the left side menu, under Template, click Add section > Apps > PDF Product Catalog.

Adding PDF product catalog section in Shopify theme editor

Customize the PDF download button as per your store theme design and layout. You can change section title, font size, color, position, width, and more.

Customizing PDF download button in Shopify theme editor

Once everything looks good, click Save.

The download PDF button will appear on all the collection pages to which the catalogs are assigned.

PDF download button displayed on Shopify collection page

You can also assign multiple catalogs to a single collection and a catalog to multiple catlaogs – that’s up to your choice.