Add a clickable table of contents to an ebook for Gumroad or Payhip
A linked contents page and bookmarks make a long PDF easy to use on a phone or tablet. Here is how to add them without re-making the ebook, and what Gumroad and Payhip allow.
- About 5 minutes
- Free up to 20 links
- Nothing uploaded
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PlannerHop is not affiliated with Gumroad or Payhip. Their file rules below come from their help pages, checked on 7 November 2026.
1. See what your PDF already has
Some writing apps keep a linked contents page when they export a PDF; many design apps do not. Drop the exported PDF into the free checker below. If it says the file has no page-to-page links, buyers can only scroll. If it has links, the checker lists any that are broken or point to the wrong page.
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2. Add the contents links and bookmarks
- Open the clickable table of contents tool (it is the link finder in "Ebook or workbook" mode).
- Drop in the same PDF. PlannerHop reads the contents page and proposes a link for each line, matched to the page with that heading. Lines with only a printed page number are matched by working out the gap between printed and PDF page numbers.
- Check each proposal. Each one says why it was proposed. Press "Accept" on the ones that are right, change the page on any that are not, or draw a link by hand.
- Leave "Add bookmarks" ticked. Indented contents lines become bookmarks nested under their chapter. With no contents page, bookmarks come from headings larger than the body text.
- Export. The new file is re-checked on your device before you download it. Your original file is not changed.
The free tier writes up to 20 links per file, which covers most ebooks' contents pages, plus the bookmarks.
3. Stay under the platform's limits
A text ebook is far below both platforms' limits. A course PDF full of screenshots, or a bundle with audio or video, can be large:
- Gumroad: on a product priced above $0.99, each file can be up to 20 GB. A free ($0) product is limited to 250 MB in total, and the "Download all" button only appears under 500 MB (Gumroad Help). See the Gumroad file size checker.
- Payhip: each file can be up to 5 GB, and a product can have several files (Payhip Help). Payhip suggests plain file names with letters, numbers, hyphens or underscores (Payhip Help). See the Payhip file size checker.
4. Tell buyers how to use the links
Readers who open the PDF in a note-taking app may need to switch into a reading mode before links respond; GoodNotes, for example, documents this for Android, Windows and Web (GoodNotes Support). The buyer instructions maker makes a one-page PDF you can add to the product.
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