How many SKUs can one catalog hold?

Ranges in the tens of thousands are the normal case for this kind of document. The practical limits you meet first are how long the book should be and how many volumes you want to print, not the size of the data.

Does the editor slow down as the document grows?

No. A 1,250 page catalog opens as quickly as a twenty page one and stays responsive while you work in it. It behaves like a desktop page tool rather than a web app waiting on a server and the pages you are not looking at cost nothing.

How long does a full export take?

Rendering runs across parallel lanes. A 498 page catalog that takes 584 seconds on a single lane finishes in 131 seconds across six and a 2,510 page run lands in about eleven minutes.

What happens if an export fails halfway?

The queue leases its work and retries and progress is tracked per page, so a restart or a deploy resumes the job rather than discarding it. You do not lose a long run to a bad moment.

How do I check a thousand pages before it goes to print?

You do not read them. A preflight lists missing photos, copy that overruns its frame, empty prices, orphaned headings and images below 300 DPI at their printed size, each linked to the page it is on. The assistant can also screenshot rendered pages and search text across the whole document.

Will the index and cross references stay correct?

Yes. Page numbers, contents, indexes and cross references are counted as the document renders, so inserting forty products into an early chapter moves every reference behind them without anyone touching the back of the book.

Can one catalog print as several volumes?

Yes. Split at a page count or at a chapter boundary and each volume exports as its own PDF, with numbering that either continues across the set or restarts per book.

Can I export only part of the catalog?

Yes. Render a chapter, a section or a page range on its own, which is what you want for a supplier review or a trade show handout rather than a full run.

How do I get fifty thousand photos in?

As a folder tree or a zip archive. It unpacks in the browser and uploads file by file, so a multi gigabyte archive streams through instead of having to fit in memory first.

What about products that are discontinued mid range?

Keep the row with a status column. Withdrawn parts can print with a supersession note pointing at the replacement, or drop out of the pages while staying in the cross reference index.

Large Catalog Generation for Thousands of SKUs

Create and update catalogs with thousands of SKUs cattalog.ai handles catalog generation for distributor and manufacturer ranges, from a thousand SKUs to fifty thousand. The full product master and photo archive go in, chapters and sections follow your category columns and the contents, folios, cross references and index are counted while the document renders. It runs entirely in the browser at the speed of a desktop page tool and adapts to the machine it is on, so a 2,510 page document opens in about a second and a half on an ordinary laptop. A preflight sweeps every page for missing photos, copy that overruns its frame, empty prices and images below 300 DPI at printed size. Export runs as a queued job across parallel lanes, retried and resumable and a long catalog can be split into printed volumes. Back to the cattalog.ai home page