Files and storage

PDF and image flipbooks are built from files. When you choose a PDF or images while creating a flipbook, each file comes from one of three places.

Three places a file can live

	Shopify Files	Managed storage	A link
Where it’s stored	Your store’s Files	With the app, separate from your store’s Files	Your own website or file host
Largest file	20 MB	100 MB	Up to your host
How it gets there	Upload it in the app, or it’s already in your store	Upload it in the app	Paste the link in the app
Where you manage it	Content → Files in your Shopify admin	The app’s Assets page	Your host
Protected while a flipbook uses it	No	Yes	No

Uploads go to Shopify Files unless you choose Managed storage. A file over 20 MB goes to Managed storage automatically. In the Your files list, Managed storage files have a Managed storage badge, pasted links have a Link badge, and Shopify files have no badge.

Keep the files your flipbooks use

A flipbook loads its PDF or images from where they are stored. If you delete a file from Shopify Files, or move or delete a linked file on your host, the flipbook breaks. Nothing stops you deleting a Shopify file that a flipbook uses. Managed storage files can’t be deleted while a flipbook uses them.

Good to know

• Deleting a flipbook doesn’t delete its files. You can tidy up Managed storage on the Assets page.
• Anyone who has a file’s address can open it, so don’t use files you need to keep private.
• Product catalogs don’t use these files. Product images come from your products, and a custom cover image is saved to Shopify Files.

In this section

• Upload a file
• Use a link to a file
• Manage files on the Assets page
• File types and limits