The best WhatsApp catalogue app for businesses

• Designed layouts, not a photo dump. A row of camera-roll images isn't a catalogue. Look for real layouts — cards, lookbook, price list, spotlight — with a branded cover.
• A branded link preview. When you paste the link into a chat, it should show your shop's name and image, not a bare URL, so buyers trust and tap it.
• Prices, quantity tiers and price-on-request. Real prices, wholesale tiers above a quantity, and the option to hide prices or mark "price on request" per catalogue.
• Orders back from the link. The big one. A catalogue you can only view still leaves you retyping the order from chat. The best tools let the buyer assemble the order in the link and send it to you complete.
• No app for the buyer. Buyers should open the link in a browser and order with just a name and phone number — no download, no account.
• A PDF fallback. Some buyers want a document to forward. A clean, vector PDF export covers that.
• Data privacy. Your customer list and prices are your business — check how the tool stores and shares them.

Be honest about this: for a lot of sellers, the catalog built into WhatsApp Business is genuinely enough. If you have a small, stable range, you mostly want customers to browse a few products inside the chat, and you're happy to take the order as a normal conversation, the built-in catalog is free, native and needs no other tool. Don't add software you don't need.

You outgrow it when the order side gets painful — when you're retyping items and quantities out of chat threads, losing track of what was agreed, sending prices you don't want walk-in customers to see, or wanting a professional quotation on your letterhead. The built-in catalog shows products; it doesn't turn a browse into a written, priced order and back into a quote.

ScanPix's differentiator is the order-back loop. You build a designed catalogue with real prices and quantity tiers, share a branded link on WhatsApp, and the buyer picks products and quantities and sends the order — no app for them. It arrives as a ready-written WhatsApp message on your number and in your Orders inbox on app and web, with statuses from new to completed. Then one tap turns any order into a branded quotation PDF. Build it with catalogues; the full walkthrough is in how to take orders on WhatsApp.

It's not a payment gateway and it doesn't do GST invoicing — take payment and raise tax invoices the way you already do. What it removes is the retyping between "customer likes it" and "order in hand". Suited to trades like jewellers, textiles and wholesale.

Category-level guidance based on publicly available information (July 2026). Tools change — check current details before deciding. ScanPix doesn't claim feature-by-feature equivalence; the point is fit for WhatsApp catalogue and ordering workflows.