Platform
One Source for All Manual Creation
Don’t let product manual creation slow your launches
For D2C brands, the manual is no longer a basic PDF. It needs to be better than the manufacturer’s, live online under your domain, speak every market’s language, be readable by search engines and AI, be printed for the box, meet regional regulations and stay up to date.
Trusted by teams where product documentation is key.
Unify Your Disparate Manual Creation Process
FlexiManual unifies the various teams working on different aspects of manual creation. Create it once in FlexiManual, translate into all languages, ensure compliance, generate the print-ready PDF and publish a mobile optimised web version, readable by search engines and AI.
How FlexiManual Makes You Quicker
| Before | With FlexiManual |
|---|---|
| Before: Individual PDF layout for every language | With FlexiManual: PDFs are generated in seconds, no InDesign required. |
| Before: Word, Excel and InDesign files for each language, flying around in email. | With FlexiManual: No documents in email, everyone works in the FlexiManual Platform. |
| Before: Send files to an outside translator to copy and paste into the final file. | With FlexiManual: Translation, reviewing and layout takes place on FlexiManual. |
| Before: Redoing twenty documents for one change. | With FlexiManual: Edit the master document and the changes propagate across all languages. |
| Before: A new language means additional logistical overhead. | With FlexiManual: A new language is added in minutes, no additional design needed. |
Import / Create
Start from Zero or Import What You Have
With FlexiManual you can start your manual from zero or import what you have, our powerful import brings in all the relevant details and modules, allowing you to pre-define specific content and templates, to make sure the building blocks of your manual are compliant and consistent.
Word, PDF or your PIM
- Manufacturer's Word files or your historical PDFs are quickly converted into a structured manual with chapters, steps, tables, and images, ready for you to revise.
- Spec sheets and supplier documentation are all imported.
- Synchronized with your PIM and product codes.
Edit & Refine
Pre-Built and Pre-Approved Modules to do the Heavy Lifting
FlexiManual Library functionally allows you to create pre-defined templates and blocks.
- Write a safety warning once and it is available for every manual, edit it and it updates in every manual that uses it.
- A single manual for multiple SKUs, with variations highlighted.
- Steps, materials, tools and warnings each have their own structure, ready to reuse, with links to your own online store.
- Safety marks included: BIFMA, CE, FSC, GreenGuard, OEKO-TEX, PEFC.
- Every image paired with supporting text to ensure accessibility, as mandated by EU regulations.
Ensure Compliance
Keep Legal Content Consistent
Pre-define your compliance templates by type of product, market or however you want:
- Legal modules can only be created and edited by approved team members.
- Create safety warnings, GPSR notices and legal texts once in your library and they are available for every manual.
- Update and every manual that uses it is updated too, in every language.
Translate
Consistent AI Translations
Uncontrolled machine translations impact efficiency and the user experience, making us doubt the efficiency of AI. FlexiManual offers powerful AI translation tools with guardrails that ensure consistency and repeatability.
Language Coverage
- More than 40 languages, including all 24 official EU languages.
- Twelve non-Latin writing systems, including right-to-left scripts: Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Ukrainian, Greek, Hebrew, Serbian, Bulgarian.
- Languages can be added quickly on request
Quality Control
- FlexiManual AI Learns from your approved translations, ensuring consistent tone across manuals.
- Glossary with your own product and brand terms, applied to every translation.
- Number verification: no measurement, quantity, or part number changes when moving from one language to another.
- Element-by-element translation: update a single step in the source text, and only that step gets retranslated.
- An easy-to-use review interface, with user access restricted to their assigned languages.
Review & Approve
The Team Focusses on the the Manual, Not Managing Documents
FlexiManual eliminates the scramble of Word and InDesign documents flying around, all edits and approvals are done within the platform, by authorized team members.
- All editing and approval happens inside the FlexiManual platform.
- Every change is recorded, and when a manual is ready, your team approves it as a numbered version (v1.0, v1.1, v2.0) covering every language.
- FlexiManual keeps the exact PDF of each version, so you can always access what was launched and when.
Publish & Update
Publish in Any Format, Anywhere
One source, one tool, many outputs. The same content, everywhere it needs to be: All PDF variations (inbox, downloadable, MarketPlaces) XML, AI readable, mobile optimized web.
All Your Product Manuals, Under Your Own Domain
- A branded manual library mapped to your domain (manuals.yourdomain.com).
- Mobile first experience for users with the product in front of them: step-by-step, each image paired with its text, in the customer's language.
- QR code generation and management, with optional password protection.
- Performance analytics track usage of manuals and languages.
- Links to parts, materials, or accessories in your online store.
Your Print-Ready PDF in Seconds. Goodbye InDesign.
- A4, A5, or accordion-fold A3 with bleed and crop marks, ready for the factory.
- Full control over typography, images, and minimum font size.
- Tables that always fit the page.
- Single-language or multilingual PDFs based on destination—in one click.
- Condensed or customized editions for specific markets or product variants.
Built for AI Readability and Search Discoverability
- Manual Steps in structured JSON to ensure discoverability by search engines and readability by AI assistants.
- Helps ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity to discover your manuals.
- A unique link per step, so answers point directly to the exact instruction.
- Automated sitemap per language.
Embedded in Your Stack
- API-driven publishing straight to your product pages, no manual effort required.
- Powers your support chatbot or syncs directly with your PIM.
- Full ZIP export: your content is always yours, to use where you need.
Better Product Manuals, Lower Costs
Tell us how you handle documentation today, and where it slows you down. We'll look at your manuals, languages, and markets together, then show how FlexiManual fits.