We just simplified how uploads work in Photoship. The documents page is gone. The review step is gone. When you upload a PDF, Excel, or images, you land directly on your catalogues page with products ready to use.
What Changed
Previously, uploading a file created a "document" that sat in a review queue. You'd go to the Documents page, find your upload, click Review, confirm the extracted products, and then a catalogue would appear. That was four steps between "I have a file" and "I have products."
Now it's one. Upload your file, AI processes it, and you get a catalogue with products. No intermediate state, no review queue, no extra page to manage.
Why We Did This
We watched how people actually used the documents page. Most users uploaded a file, waited for processing, hit Review, accepted everything without changes, and moved on. The review step was a speed bump, not a safety net.
The few users who did make edits during review were doing things they could just as easily do from the catalogue or product pages — renaming products, fixing prices, removing duplicates. The review step wasn't adding value that didn't already exist elsewhere.
So we removed it.
Where Do Uploads Go Now
Every upload link — PDFs, Excel files, image batches — now redirects to your catalogues page after processing. The catalogue is created directly with your products inside it, marked as needs_review so you know it's fresh.
If you need to edit products, you do it from the catalogue. Same editing tools, same capabilities, just without a detour through a separate page.
What About Processing Status
Processing still happens in the background. After you upload, you'll see your catalogue appear on the catalogues page with a processing status. When it's done, the products are there. No polling a separate documents page.
What This Means for You
Fewer clicks to get from a file to a shareable catalogue. The flow is now: upload → catalogue → PDF or store. That's it.
If you were bookmarking /app/documents, update your bookmark to /app/catalogues. Any old document links will redirect automatically.