From a static PDF to a living storefront.
Turning a catalog PDF into a storefront means every product in the file becomes a live page. Each page carries the photos, the category, the options and a price from your rules, or price on request. Buyers open it on a phone from one link. With Poly9 AI you upload the product photos, or a spreadsheet with a photo folder. You approve what the AI reads and publish at yours.poly9.ai.
A PDF is a photo of your catalog.
Your PDF was exported from the designer’s layout file ahead of the season. The price list at the back is already the old one, the new colorways are missing, and the download weighs more than hall wifi wants to carry. So you attach it anyway, or paste a cloud-folder link, and hope.
A buyer cannot interrogate a PDF. Does the sideboard come longer? What does the antique bronze add? Is the ottoman also in the boucle? Each question becomes a message, and the answer sits in a spreadsheet only one person can read.
The PDF also reports nothing back. You cannot tell who downloaded it, which spread they lingered on, or which product they forwarded to their boss. The follow-up mail goes out blind, to the whole list, about the whole catalog.
Catalog PDF vs live storefront
| Before | With Poly9 AI |
|---|---|
| Exported once, out of date the next week | Edit a product or a rule and the live link shows it |
| One image per product, in one finish | Finish, size and material options, with a render for each |
| Cannot be searched in the buyer’s own words | Search and the storefront assistant answer from your real catalog |
| Price list at the back, or a phone call | Certified price from your rules, or price on request with the spec |
| No idea who read it | Views, collection adds and quote requests per product |
What happens to the PDF, step by step.
Poly9 AI reads photographs, not the PDF’s typeset layout. So the opening job is extracting the imagery: the originals from your photographer or agency, or the images exported from the PDF, grouped one product per set. Rather hand the file over? We load it with you during onboarding.
Each photo set becomes a draft product: name, category and subcategory from your own category tree, a buyer-facing description, main and secondary material, finish, style, colour, and dimensions with a stated confidence. Drafts wait in a review queue. You approve, edit or reject each one, and nothing publishes without your approval. Prefer no AI at all? A spreadsheet with a photo folder imports with strict checks and no credits.
Pricing comes from rules, not from the PDF’s price list. Write a cost recipe (materials, labour, overhead) or load a grade matrix and the storefront quotes a certified price for every configuration. Until then a product shows price on request and a form that sends you the buyer’s chosen options. Then publish: your catalog lives at yours.poly9.ai, one link on the stand, in every email and in every buyer collection.
Get the product photos
Use the originals or export the images from the PDF, one set per product. Photos are what Poly9 AI reads. The PDF layout itself stays where it is.
Approve the AI drafts
Each photo set becomes a draft with name, category, description, materials, finish and dimensions. Approve, edit or reject each one in the review queue.
Add options and pricing rules
Finishes, sizes, materials, minimum order, lead time. A cost recipe or a grade matrix gives a certified price; anything else shows price on request.
Publish one link
Your storefront goes live at yours.poly9.ai. Put the link where the PDF used to go and read views and quote requests in your dashboard.
Who this is not for.
- Catalogs with no product photography. The storefront is built from photos, and a PDF page is not a substitute.
- Fixed price lists with no options and no configuration. A PDF or a plain web page already does that.
- Teams who want a PDF flipbook. This is a catalog with quoting, not a page-turning viewer.
Questions about catalog pdf to storefront.
Can Poly9 AI read my PDF directly?
What does the AI get wrong?
Where do the prices come from?
What does the buyer see?
What happens when I change a price?
Can I keep sending a PDF as well?
Where this leads.
The same storefront at the fair, with a QR code on the stand.
Quotes, collections and the booth for buyers who come to you.
Cost recipes and certified quotes from the factory floor.
Line sheets, mood boards and where the storefront replaces them.
The guide: what to prepare before the fair.
Publish before the Delhi fair and print the QR code.
Finish, fabric and size options priced from rules.
Pattern, colorway and repeat on every product.
Start free. Retire the PDF.
Create your account, upload your product photos or a spreadsheet, approve the drafts and publish at yours.poly9.ai. 250 sales actions free for 30 days, no card, and the catalog stays yours.