Active Flipbook

An active flipbook is a published flipbook that is currently live and accessible to viewers via its shared link or embedded location. It is distinct from drafts, archived, or unpublished flipbooks that exist in your account but are not publicly reachable. Active flipbooks count toward your plan's usage limit, which means the number of flipbooks you can have live at any given time is determined by your subscription tier. Understanding this distinction is essential for managing your content library and making the most of your plan's capacity without unnecessary upgrades.

The active flipbook concept directly affects how publishers manage their content lifecycle. Without clear limits, accounts would accumulate outdated publications indefinitely, making it harder to find and manage current material. By distinguishing between active and inactive flipbooks, publishers gain a practical framework for content hygiene — keeping only relevant, up-to-date material live while retaining the ability to restore older content when needed. This model also makes pricing transparent: you pay based on how many flipbooks are simultaneously accessible, not how many you have ever created. Publishers who understand this can strategically rotate content — archiving seasonal catalogs after their window passes and reactivating them when the season returns — rather than purchasing additional capacity they do not continuously need.

When you upload a PDF and publish it as a flipbook using FlipLink's [Create Flipbooks](/features/create-flipbooks) feature, it becomes an active flipbook and counts toward your plan's quota. FlipLink's Lifetime Deal includes 100 active flipbooks per code at $129, and codes are stackable for higher limits. If you need to free up a slot, you can unpublish a flipbook, which makes it inactive and removes it from viewer access while keeping it stored in your account. You can republish it at any time to make it active again. The dashboard shows your current active count alongside your plan's total capacity, so you always know exactly how many slots remain available. Flipbooks that have been deactivated retain all their settings, analytics history, and custom configurations, so reactivation is seamless.