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How to Publish & Sell Your Cookbook
Turn your recipe collection into a polished PDF cookbook — complete with a custom cover, AI-organized chapters, and a Shopify-ready download link your customers can buy. Publishing and selling is a Recipio Pro feature.
🚀 Quick Start
- Fill your cookbook: Add or save recipes into the cookbook you want to sell
- Generate a table of contents: On the cookbook page, click Auto-generate with AI — your recipes are grouped into chapters like "Appetizers" and "Desserts"
- Fine-tune the chapters: Click Edit TOC to rename chapters, add blurbs, and drag recipes between chapters
- Style your cover: Under Edit → PDF cover image / template, upload a cover photo and customize the title layout
- Publish: Click Publish & Get Shopify Link to get your private download URL
- List it on Shopify: Paste the link into a Shopify product and start selling
📖 What Your Customers Get
✨ The PDF cookbook includes:
- A designed cover page with your cookbook name, author credit, and optional cover image
- A full table of contents organized by chapter
- A divider page for each chapter, with your custom blurb
- Every recipe on its own page — ingredients, instructions, and summaries included
🎨 Customizing the Cover
From your cookbook's Edit page you can:
- Upload a cover image (PNG or JPG) that appears at the top of the cover page
- Edit the cover template — a simple text layout where
#makes a title line,##makes a subtitle, and---adds a decorative divider. Use placeholders like{{ cookbook_name }},{{ author }}, and{{ recipe_count }}and they'll be filled in automatically
🛍️ Setting Up Your Shopify Listing
- After publishing, copy your download link from the Export & Sell panel
- In Shopify, create a product for your cookbook (a digital product works best)
- Add the Recipio download link as the fulfillment/external URL customers receive after purchase
- Buyers who follow the link download the latest PDF of your cookbook — updates you make are included automatically
🔒 Keeping your link safe
Your download link contains a private token — only people you share it with (or who buy your product) can download the PDF. If the link ever leaks, click Regenerate link to invalidate the old one instantly.
💎 Recipio Pro Required
Anyone can build cookbooks and download their own PDF. Publishing a shareable, sellable download link requires a Recipio Pro subscription.