A real API for generating PDFs programmatically

5 rep

7mo

Is there any plan for a real API? I run billing for a small agency and we kick out around 200 invoices a month from our own system. Right now the workflow is export the data, then hand-build each PDF, which is exactly the manual step I'm trying to kill.

What I'd love is to POST the line-item data plus a template id and get back a finished PDF. Bonus points if the result is still round-trip editable the way a normal export is, so when a client disputes a line I can open it, fix it, and re-send without rebuilding from scratch.

POST /v1/render
{ "template": "invoice-clean", "data": {... } }
=> application/pdf

Even a rate-limited beta key would be enough to get me off the manual track. Anyone else need this?

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