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Catalogs: Your Service & Pricing Command Center

All plansIntermediate8 minutesUpdated August 7, 2026

Catalogs are client-facing, multi-page product brochures you design inside WorkZen, built from your Price Book items with templates for covers, product pages, and image galleries. Publish a catalog and share it with anyone through a public link.

Your Price Book is where your team looks up prices. A catalog is what you show the client: a designed, multi-page brochure of your products and services, built inside WorkZen and shared with a link. Same data, different audience.

Price BookCatalog
Who sees itYour teamYour clients
What it holdsItems with prices, costs, markupsDesigned pages showcasing selected items
What it's forBuilding estimates and invoicesSales material you share with a link

Create a catalog

Go to Catalog in the sidebar and click New Catalog (or Create First Catalog if it's your first). Give it a Title, add an optional description, and click Create Catalog.

Design the pages

A catalog is a stack of pages, and the first one is always the cover. Click Create Cover Page and pick from the Cover Page Templates: Hero Center, Split Left, Classic, Bold, or Elegant. Set the title, colors, and a background image.

Then click Add Page for each additional page:

  • Product Page Templates show one large item centered or two side by side. You pick the items straight from your Price Book, so names, descriptions, prices, and photos come from data you already maintain.
  • Content Page Templates include an Image Gallery (a 2x2 grid) for before-and-after shots or completed work.

Each page's editable zones accept text and images (PNG, JPG, GIF up to 10MB). Click Save Page as you go, and Preview to see the client view.

Publish and share

Edits are drafts until you publish. When the builder shows Unpublished changes, click Publish to push everything live. Then click Copy Link to grab a public link; anyone who has it can open the published catalog in their browser, no account needed. Send it in a quote email, text it after a site visit, or drop it on your website.

When a catalog has served its purpose, archive it. Archived catalogs are hidden from the list but can be restored later.

Plan availability

Catalog count is limited by plan: 1 on Zen (free), 3 on ZenGrow, unlimited on ZenAI.

Keep the Price Book healthy first

Because product pages pull from the Price Book, a catalog is only as good as the items behind it. Clean names, client-friendly descriptions, current prices, and good photos in the Price Book pay off twice: faster estimates for your team, and a sharper catalog for your clients.

Step by step

  1. 1

    Create the catalog

    Go to Catalog, click New Catalog, give it a title and an optional description, and click Create Catalog.

  2. 2

    Design the cover

    Click Create Cover Page and pick a cover template, then set the title, background image, and colors.

  3. 3

    Add product pages

    Click Add Page, choose a product template, and pick items straight from your Price Book. Add content pages like image galleries where they help.

  4. 4

    Publish and share

    Click Publish to make your changes live, then Copy Link to get a public link you can send to anyone.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Price Book is your internal pricing database, what your team uses to build estimates and invoices. A catalog is a client-facing brochure you design from those items. Clients see the catalog; they never see your Price Book, costs, or markups.
No. Copy Link gives you a public link. Anyone who has it can open the published catalog in a browser.
The free Zen plan includes 1 catalog, ZenGrow includes 3, and ZenAI is unlimited. Archived catalogs count against the limit only when you restore them.
No. Edits stay in the builder until you click Publish. The builder shows an "Unpublished changes" notice so you know when the live version is behind.
Viewing catalogs requires the View Catalogs permission. Creating, editing, publishing, archiving, and sharing them requires Manage Catalogs.

This article answers:

  • What are catalogs in WorkZen?
  • How do I make a product catalog to show clients?
  • What is the difference between the catalog and the price book?
  • How do I share my catalog with a client?

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