Publish a branded, read-only catalog of your items on a shareable link. Pick the items, add a photo to each, choose whether to show prices, and publish — your customers open the link and browse a clean list with a detail view for every item. No website to build, nothing to host.
Items sold by size, weight or time
A window is sold by the square foot, gold by the gram, railing by the running foot, timber by the cubic foot, consulting by the hour. On the item, set Unit type to what you actually quote in — Sq ft, Gram, Rft, Cft, Hour — and Finocket sets How is this priced? to match. Your rate then means per that unit, and an invoice line asks for the width and height (or the weight, or the hours) and works the amount out.
A 5 × 8 ft window at ₹310 per square foot bills 40 sq ft × ₹310 = ₹12,400, and the line shows the size so your customer can check it. Quantity stays the number of pieces, so three identical windows bill three times that.
If an item's unit says one thing and its pricing says another, Finocket says so on the item and at the top of your catalogue, and offers to fix them in one step. That matters because the two disagreeing is silent: an item measured in square feet but priced per piece charges the same for a small window and a large one. Documents you have already issued never change — a line keeps the rate it was issued with.
Item photos and specifications on documents
If your items have photos, they print on invoices, estimates and quotations by default — you do not have to find a switch. The same is true of any item field you marked Show on PDF in the custom-field designer, which is how you add things like volume, area, purity or a warranty period and have them appear under the line. Turn either off for your whole workspace, or for one document, in the document settings.
Is this an online store?
No — and that's on purpose. The catalog is a showcase, not a storefront. There is deliberately no cart, no checkout and no search box. It's a way to send someone your product or service list on one tidy link (WhatsApp, a QR sticker, your bio) — not a shop. When you actually sell where India sells, that's the marketplace hub (Amazon, Flipkart, quick-commerce) reconciled as finance; the catalog is simply the honest “here's what we offer” page.
How do I publish a catalog?
- Turn on Items catalog in Settings → Modules & features (it's a beta module you switch on yourself).
- Add a photo to the items you want to show: open an item under Items & Services and upload a catalog image. Items without a photo still appear — the image is optional.
- Open Items catalog and tap New catalog. Give it a title, a link (the
/cat/…slug), and an optional intro line. - Choose the items: all active items, or tick an explicit set. Decide whether to show prices — turn it off and every item reads “Price on request” instead.
- Tap Publish, then Copy link and share it. Unpublish any time to take it offline instantly.
A share link and a shop shelf are two different things
A catalog is a share link: you send it to someone and only people with the link open it. If you also run an online shop, a catalog can additionally be a shelf in that shop — a collection every visitor can browse. Those are separate decisions, and the editor now has a separate switch for each:
- Publish decides whether the
/cat/…link works. - Show as a collection in my shop (under “In your shop”) decides whether it is a shelf in your shop. A shelf needs the catalog published as well, so this switch on its own does nothing until you publish.
That means unpublishing a catalog that is on your shop removes the shelf too. Finocket warns you before it does, and names both things you are about to lose. If you only want it off the shop, turn off the shop switch and leave it published — the link keeps working.
If your prices are hidden, the shelf shows “Price on request” against every item, the same as the share link does. A shop page is read differently from a private link, so if you mean to sell from that shelf, turn Show prices back on.
What can the public see?
Only what you publish, and only the showcase fields — item name, description, photo, unit and (if you allow it) the price. Private details like cost, SKU, tax settings, ledger accounts and custom fields are never sent to the public page. An unpublished catalog, or a wrong link, simply shows “this catalog isn't available” — drafts stay private.
Who can create and edit catalogs?
Creating, editing and publishing follow your team roles: a member needs write access to the catalog module. Everyone else sees the catalog read-only. The public link itself needs no login — that's the point.
On the web
Open the catalog and look for On the web. Three things live there, and each is off until you turn it on:
- Let search engines find it. Off keeps the link private — anyone you send it to can open it, but Google does not list it. On puts it in the sitemap and lets it be found. You can also give it its own title and one-line description for search results and WhatsApp previews, and a share image; leave those blank and the catalog title and first item photo are used.
- Your own domain. Type the bare name you want the catalog to live at, such as
shop.yourbusiness.in, then point a CNAME for that name atcname.finocket.comwith whoever manages your domain and ask us to verify it. Until it is verified the catalog is only at its Finocket link; once it is, that name becomes the canonical address search engines see. - Catalog assistant. A question box on the page that answers from this catalog only — what you list, at the prices you show — and points a visitor to you if they want to buy. It never takes an order and never invents a price you have hidden. It draws on your workspace's AI allowance, and each visitor is limited to a few questions a minute.