PowerPoint to Catalogue · Your App Cloud
Turn your PowerPoint deck into a catalogue
A PowerPoint sales deck often puts one product on each slide, the prices on a slide at the back and the talking points in the notes. Upload a cleaned copy and decide what buyers see.
From slides a rep presents to pages a buyer browses.
Clean a copy of the deck, explain how a product slide is laid out, then hold the catalogue up against the slides one product at a time.
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Clean a copy of the deck
Save a copy and work only on that. Delete the hidden slides made for single customers. Move any product fact out of the speaker notes and onto its slide, then remove the notes. Upload the copy, not the one reps present from.
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Describe one product slide
Say where each part sits on a typical product slide: the name in the title, the photo on the left, bullets as the description, specs in the table. Then name the slides that aren't products, such as range overviews, scene photos and the price slide, and say what each should become.
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Compare product by product
In View, Slide Sorter, count the product slides and compare that with the number of products. Open five product pages, including one whose slide broke the usual layout, and check the name, code, specs, price and photo against the deck.
What each kind of slide becomes.
Find the slide type in your own deck, then read across. The slides, item codes and prices come from a made-up patio furniture maker in Santa Rosa, California, and are samples only.
| In the sales deck | In the catalogue | What to check |
|---|---|---|
| A product slide titled 'Solano lounge chair', with a photo, three bullets and a small spec table | A product page with its own address, named after the slide title | A title written for effect, such as 'Meet Solano', needs the real product name in the prompt. If a product fills two slides, a photo slide and then a detail slide, say so and check that it came out as one product. |
| A range overview slide: six thumbnails with a name under each | A category page listing those six products | Make sure the thumbnails didn't turn into six extra products with no specs. Count each category's products and compare the number with its overview slide. |
| A spec table typed on the slide, or pasted in from Excel | Fields in the same order on every product page, such as width 30 in, depth 34 in and weight 24 lb | Click the table. If it selects as a picture, it was pasted as one and can't be edited as a table, so attach the workbook it came from. If double-clicking opens it in Excel, it's an embedded copy: check it for columns you wouldn't show a buyer, such as unit cost. |
| The price slide at the back: item code, wholesale price and MSRP for the whole range | A price on each product page, matched by item code | Compare the rows on the price slide with the product count, then check five prices, such as SOL-LC-TK at $795.00 MSRP. Decide which column the public sees before anything is published. |
| A 'New for 2026' starburst or a 'Bestseller' ribbon laid over a photo | A label on the product that buyers can filter by | Which product a badge belongs to is shown only by where it sits, so list the products that wear each badge in the prompt. Filter by each label and compare the result with the deck. |
| A swatch slide with nine cushion fabrics, each offered on several chairs | One list of fabrics that products link to, instead of a copy on each chair | Open two chairs that share a fabric and compare its name and swatch. Then mark a test fabric discontinued and check that it disappears from every chair. |
| A styled patio scene with the lounge chair, a side table and an umbrella in one photo | A picture at the top of the category, linking to each product it shows | Name every product in the scene in the prompt. Click each link and check it lands on the right item code, and that the scene didn't become a product of its own. |
| An old price in a text box behind the photo, or one switched off in the Selection Pane | Nothing, once you remove it from the copy | Hidden objects remain in the file. Inspect Document finds objects formatted as invisible but not ones covered by other objects, so also open Home, Select, Selection Pane on each product slide and delete what buyers shouldn't read. |
| A link on the slide, such as 'Assembly guide', pointing to a file on your company drive | A download on the product page, from a file you attach | A link into an internal drive won't open for a buyer. Attach the PDF itself, then try the download in a private browser window. |
What a sales deck carries that buyers shouldn't see.
A sales deck gets reused from meeting to meeting, and each rep leaves something behind in it. A hidden slide or a note the audience never saw is still in the file, so clean a copy before you upload it.
Talking points in the notes
Notes such as 'hold at $380 for orders under 20' or 'don't mention the spring lead time' are for the rep. Move any product fact in them, such as 'ships unassembled', onto the slide. Remove the notes from the copy, then search the preview for a phrase from them.
Slides made for one customer
A rep's copy may open with a cover naming a retailer and keep that retailer's terms on hidden slides. A hidden slide remains in the file even though the slide show skips it. Start from the master deck and delete each hidden slide you don't want online.
Photos shaped for a slide
On a slide, a product may be cut out of its background, cropped into a circle or shrunk to keep the file small. If Delete cropped areas of pictures was selected and the deck saved, the rest of the photo is gone for good. Keep the original shots, with file names that match the item codes.
Numbers written for a pitch
Slides round and flatter: 'from $395', 'up to 40% lighter', 'holds 300 lb'. A buyer reads a product page like a spec sheet. Replace each 'from' price with the price of every option, and check each claim against the spec table before it goes on a page.
An illustrative starting point
Product pages where the slides were.
A page per product slide with its specs and price, categories from your deck's sections, labels from its badges and an inquiry button on each product.
A link for every product
After a meeting, a rep can send a buyer the one product page they asked about instead of the whole deck. Open three of those links on a phone and check that each shows the right product.
Specs buyers can compare
In the deck, comparing two lounge chairs means flipping between their slides. Once the spec tables are fields, ask for a view that sets two products side by side, or narrows a category by width and material. Check the units on three products against their slides.
Sections and badges that sort
Ranges you kept as sections, such as Dining, Lounge and Shade, can become categories, and badges can become filters such as New this season. Compare each category's product count with its section.
An inquiry on each product
In a meeting, the buyer points at a slide and the rep writes down the chair and fabric. Online, ask for an inquiry button that records the item code, fabric and quantity instead. Saving and emailing inquiries need a backend, so send a test inquiry and check that the email names the right chair.
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Good questions.
Will my PowerPoint speaker notes end up in the catalogue?
Treat everything in the file as something that could appear. Sales notes often hold floor prices and talking points meant for the rep alone. Move product facts onto their slides, remove the notes from the copy you upload, and search the preview for two phrases from the old notes.
Why do some product photos look soft or cut off?
A slide often holds a photo cropped to fit, cut out of its background or compressed to keep the deck small. Where the cropped areas were deleted, the missing part can't be restored from the deck. Attach the original shots and compare each product page with them.
Can retailers see wholesale prices while the public sees MSRP?
The price slide shows both columns to anyone who sees it, so split them in the prompt. Make MSRP public and put wholesale prices in their own collection, readable only by retailers who sign in, with the access you describe for each collection. Then open one product signed in as a test retailer and again signed out, and search for a wholesale price both ways.
Can a buyer order from the catalogue?
A deck's prices assume a rep in the room: 'from $395', a floor price in the notes, freight agreed on the call. An order form needs one fixed price for every product and fabric, so take inquiries while you settle those, and send buyers a link to the payment page you already use.
Do reps still need the deck in meetings?
Decide which one you keep current, or every price change has to be made twice. A published catalogue opens in a browser, including on a phone, so a rep can bring up a product page mid-meeting. Keep the deck for pitches that tell a story, and link to products there rather than copying their prices.
Can each inquiry reach the right rep?
Apps can send email and run tasks on a schedule you set. Ask for each inquiry to be emailed to the rep for the buyer's state, and for a Monday list of inquiries nobody has answered. Test both with made-up inquiries, and have someone review the Monday list before acting on it.
How do next season's products get in?
The upload is a snapshot, so edits to the deck after that don't reach the catalogue. When next season's deck arrives, save a copy that holds only the new and changed product slides and the new price slide. Upload it deliberately, ask for products to be matched by item code, and list the ones dropped. Then open one repriced product and search for a dropped one.
Which plan does a catalogue from a deck need?
A catalogue that shows what the slides showed, with photos, specs and MSRP for each product on one page, can be a one-page site, which Free publishes. A page for each product, or what a rep handled in person, makes it an app, which needs a paid plan to go live: saved inquiries, wholesale prices behind a retailer sign-in and products you edit inside the app. See the pricing page for each plan.
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