Many brands rely on Akeneo to centralize and enrich their product information, managing SKUs, attributes, families, channels, locales, pricing data, and digital assets in one place. This allows e-commerce, marketing, and product teams to keep information consistent and ready to power every customer touchpoint, from webshops and marketplaces to printed catalogs and sales materials.
When this same data needs to be used to create catalogs, price lists, and product sheets, the process often becomes manual. Teams export reports and spreadsheets, copy information into Adobe InDesign, and adjust layouts product by product. It is a slow, repetitive, and error-prone workflow.
- That is why many companies using Akeneo turn to Pagination.
Pagination is a cloud-based database publishing platform that connects your Akeneo data directly to Adobe InDesign, transforming structured product and pricing information into professional documents automatically.
Why connect Akeneo to InDesign
Akeneo already gives product, e-commerce, and marketing teams a powerful foundation to manage and distribute consistent product data across all digital channels.
However, when it comes to creating printed or PDF materials such as catalogs, price lists, proposal books, or product sheets, the process often requires manual exports and time-consuming layout work in Adobe InDesign.
By connecting Akeneo to InDesign through Pagination, that same high-quality data can be used directly to generate professional documents automatically.
Your Akeneo environment remains the single source of truth, while Pagination turns it into ready-to-use catalogs, price lists, or other documents that stay fully aligned with your brand identity, without data duplication or manual design work.
How Pagination integrates with Akeneo
Pagination can connect to Akeneo through data exports or direct API integration.
During the initial setup, the Pagination team maps each Akeneo entity and field (for example products, product models, attributes, prices, categories, families, channels, locales) to its corresponding placeholder in your InDesign template, ensuring that every element appears in the right position and style.
This one-time configuration defines how your data flows from Akeneo into InDesign. Once the mapping is complete, generating documents becomes effortless.
- Your team simply uploads or syncs the latest Akeneo data, selects the document type or version, and launches the generation process.
In a few minutes, Pagination produces fully formatted InDesign and PDF files, ready for print or digital distribution.
Your designers retain complete creative control over the templates, while Pagination automates the population and layout of product and pricing data: complex catalogs, price lists, or sales sheets are turned into professional documents with just a few clicks.
Documents you can create automatically
With Pagination, your Akeneo data can power the creation of multiple types of documents, all from the same source, such as:
- Product catalogs for marketing, sales, and distributors
- Price lists by region, channel, customer, or market segment
- Product specification sheets with detailed attributes and technical data
- Sales materials, quote supplements, and brochures aligned with your brand design
Each output can be tailored by market, language, channel, or currency while maintaining unified design and data accuracy.
