PDF Catalog Builder for WooCommerce

Turn your WooCommerce catalog into PDFs your customers keep

PDF Catalog Builder for WooCommerce by W7S creates PDF catalogs, price lists, lookbooks, and product sheets from the products you already sell. Pick from 15 ready-made designs, add your logo and colors, and choose which products go in. Customers then download the file from a button on your shop, a product page, a block, or a shortcode. Every PDF links back to your store, so a catalog that gets forwarded or printed still brings buyers back to you. The PDF is built on your own server, and the extension keeps it up to date as your products change.

What does PDF Catalog Builder for WooCommerce do for your store?

• Give buyers a catalog they can keep, print, and share, with every product name linking back to its page in your store.
• Serve different buyers different documents: a public catalog for shoppers, a price list only your wholesale customers can download, and a spec sheet for every product.
• Look professional without a designer. Fifteen ready-made designs set the layout, fonts, colors, and cover in one click, and you can change any of it.
• Stop updating PDFs by hand. Catalogs rebuild automatically when you change a product, a price, a category, or a setting.
• Offer catalogs of thousands of products. Large catalogs are built in the background, so customers see a progress page instead of a timeout.
• Print the product data your buyers ask for, including materials, warranties, and lead times from Advanced Custom Fields or any product meta field.

Features

Build as many catalogs as you need

Each catalog is a saved set of products with its own name, sort order, layout, cover, and download rule. You can build a catalog from:

• every published product,
• chosen categories,
• chosen tags,
• featured products, or
• products on sale.

You can sort a catalog by catalog order, name, price, newest, or best selling, and cap it at a maximum number of products. Every catalog gets its own download link, shortcode, and block option, so you can make one for each season, one per category, or one just for trade buyers.

Choose from 15 designs and 8 layouts

The 15 ready-made designs are Classic, Minimal, Boutique, Bold, Wholesale, Editorial, Organic, Technical, Luxe, Playful, Magazine, Noir, Index, Trade, and Nordic. Each one is a starting point. Under the designs sit eight layouts, each built for a different kind of buyer:

• Grid, with one to four columns, for browsing.
• Magazine, with a featured product and then a grid, for a printed-catalog feel.
• List, for products that need detail and attributes.
• Compact list, which fits about thirty products a page, for large ranges.
• Price list, for trade buyers who order by SKU.
• Table with images, for distributors who need to see the product and the price on one line.
• Lookbook, for products that sell on how they look.
• One product per page, for specification sheets.

You can group any layout by category, with a heading or a new page for each one.

Brand every page

Set the page size (A4, A5, Letter, or Legal), the orientation, and the margins. Choose the text and heading fonts, the base text size, and six colors. You also choose one of four cover styles, four card styles, and plain or badge prices. Add your logo, a cover title and subtitle, a running header and footer, page numbers, and a watermark for confidential or draft price lists. Sale prices show the new price with the old one struck through.

The default fonts cover Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and most accented alphabets, and the document is generated in your site’s language.

Give one catalog its own look

By default, every catalog follows your store design, so a rebrand updates all of them at once. Any catalog can also have a design of its own. That way, a dark lookbook for a premium range can sit next to a plain price list for trade buyers, and editing one never changes the other.

Decide who can download

Choose whether downloads are open to everyone, to logged-in customers, or to chosen user roles. You set this store-wide, and any catalog can have its own rule. Visitors who aren’t allowed to download don’t see the button at all. Generated files are kept outside your public web folder and served through a download handler that checks access, so a restricted price list can’t be reached by guessing its file address.

Print data from Advanced Custom Fields and product meta

Add up to 20 extra fields to your catalogs, from Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Secure Custom Fields, or any product meta key. You can rename each field the way your customers should read it and set the order. ACF values are printed the way ACF formats them, including units, choice labels, dates, and group and repeater fields. Fields appear under each product, as rows in the specification table on product sheets, and as columns in price lists and tables.

Put the download where customers look

There are four ways to offer a download:

• a PDF Catalog block for the block editor,
• the [pdf_catalog] shortcode for any page, post, or widget,
• an optional catalog button under your shop and category pages, and
• an optional product sheet button on product pages, in one of four positions.

On a category page, if you’ve built a catalog for exactly that category, it’s offered instead of the whole store, with no extra setup. Buttons use your theme’s button style, so they fit the rest of your store.

Keep catalogs fast and current

Each catalog is built once, stored, and served as a file after that. It’s rebuilt automatically when a product, variation, category, tag, scheduled sale, ACF field, or setting changes. Above a product count you choose, 150 by default, a catalog is built in the background through Action Scheduler. Customers who ask for it in the meantime see a “Preparing your catalog” page that starts the download as soon as the file is ready.

Control what is in and what is out

Choose what each product shows: the image, SKU, price, short or full description, categories, attributes, and availability. You can leave out-of-stock products out, while products on backorder stay in. To exclude a single product, tick a box on its Advanced tab. A filter on your Products list shows you which products are in your catalogs and which are left out.

Preview before you publish

Preview any catalog or design with a few of your products before customers see it. The extension is switched off after installation, so nothing appears on your storefront until you turn it on.

Use optional AI catalog tools

If you use an AI assistant connected to your site through the WordPress Abilities API, you can turn on tools that let it list, create, and build catalogs and hand back the download link. They’re off by default, and only users who can manage WooCommerce can use them. The extension doesn’t include or call any AI service itself.

• Compatible with High Performance Order Storage (HPOS) and the Cart and Checkout blocks
• Theme overrides for every layout and the cover, plus documented developer filters
• A download count for the last 30 days, shown in settings
• Translation ready

Who is PDF Catalog Builder for WooCommerce for?

• Wholesale and B2B stores: You sell to trade buyers who want a price list they can key straight into an order. Use the Wholesale or Trade design to get SKUs, prices, and your custom fields in a landscape table, then limit the download to your wholesale role. Your public catalog stays open to everyone else.
• Stores with a range to show off: You sell fashion, furniture, jewelry, homeware, or gifts, and your products sell on how they look. The Lookbook, Boutique, Luxe, Noir, and Nordic designs give you a printable brochure with large images that you can send to stockists, hand out at trade shows, or offer on your shop page.
• Equipment, parts, and technical suppliers: Your customers compare specifications before they buy. Turn on the product sheet button, and every product page offers a one-page PDF with the image, price, attributes, and your ACF specification fields in one table.
• Agencies building stores for clients: You need a catalog feature that you can set up once and then leave alone. Catalogs follow the store design, rebuild themselves when products change, and can be placed with a block or a shortcode. For anything you want to adjust, developers get template overrides and filters.

How does it work?

1. Install and activate the extension, then go to WooCommerce > Settings > Products > PDF Catalogs.
2. On the Design tab, pick a design, add your logo, and set your colors. Click Preview with a few products to check the result.
3. On the Content tab, choose what each product shows and add any custom fields.
4. On the Catalogs tab, add catalogs for the product sets you want to offer, or skip this step and offer the whole store.
5. On the Placement tab, turn on the shop and product page buttons. You can also add the block or shortcode wherever you like.
6. Turn on Enable PDF catalogs. Your customers can now download.

From then on, the extension keeps every catalog current as your products change. Full setup steps are in the documentation.

How does it compare with other WooCommerce PDF catalog plugins?

Here’s how PDF Catalog Builder for WooCommerce compares, feature by feature, with three other WooCommerce PDF catalog plugins.

PDF Catalog Builder for WooCommerce is the only one of the four that lets you save as many catalogs as you need, give each one its own design and download rule, print Advanced Custom Fields data, and build large catalogs in the background. If you want a PDF catalog for wholesale buyers, for retail shoppers, and for each product, all from one extension, it does more of the job than any of the alternatives.