PDF Generator API is a highly scalable API and embeddable document editor that can be easily integrated into an existing product by any software provider or developer. By incorporating the PDF Generator API, companies can make a prudent decision to reduce development and support costs. This is achieved by empowering users to create and manage their document templates using a browser-based drag-and-drop document editor, a feature that saves time and resources.
When choosing a document generation system, you can build the tools in-house or buy a specialized, industry-specific solution. We wrote a comprehensive guide on building vs buying a document generation solution that can help you choose the correct path.
Although any company can utilize the PDF Generator API for document generation, we have found three main types of companies that would benefit most.
- Document-heavy software as service (SaaS) companies.
- Software development companies looking for tools to speed up their development processes.
- Non-software development companies looking for document automation tools to streamline their internal processes.
Document-heavy SaaS companies
We can provide the most significant value to document-heavy SaaS companies. As a document-heavy SaaS company, we consider all SaaS businesses whose customers need to generate different documents and printouts as part of their daily business. These are mainly business-to-business companies that provide accounting, ERP, HR, sales, logistics and inventory management software. The documents they generate can range from labels and invoices to sales reports and customs declarations.
Document-heavy SaaS companies can have thousands of customers, and they all have customization needs. In many cases, customization requests are still handled through the development cycle, which is time-consuming and expensive. It would take days or weeks for a small change, and at the same time, a SaaS company needs to allocate resources to develop its core features.
When a SaaS company utilizes PDF Generator API, its customers can create and modify their documents themselves, or the company’s technical support can achieve this within minutes using the drag-and-drop editor instead of wasting expensive developer resources.
Our case studies show how our existing customers in this segment have improved their document generation process. You can read about the first-hand experience from Veeqo, Pragon ERP, Fleet Complete, Erply and Katana.
Software development companies
In this segment, we see software development companies looking for a bolt-on document generation and customization solution. This can be any software company that builds custom solutions and needs document generation capabilities or even a SaaS company from the previous segment that needs to automate document generation but doesn’t need to provide editing capabilities to its customers.
More and more developers are using low-code and no-code tools to build customer products and solutions. On these platforms, they no longer have access to programming language-specific utility libraries.
PDF Generator API provides out-of-the-box integrations with the most common no-code and low-code platforms like Airtable, Wix, Zapier, Bubble, and Xano. This enables anybody, regardless of skill, to assemble fully functioning software by piecing it together via a simple graphic interface.
Many customers in this segment are taking advantage of low-code and no-code platforms to speed up the software delivery cycle.
You can read how some customers in the segment, Cubist Cloud, Ivesins and Rendin, chose PDF Generator API as their go-to document generation tool.
Non-software development companies
These are “regular companies” looking for document generation tools to automate or improve internal processes. These can be banks to generate contracts, airlines to generate boarding passes or large companies to automate their internal documents.
Many document generation and automation tools (document lifecycle management) are built primarily for the end user, and it is complicated or even impossible to integrate with external systems seamlessly.
Using a PDF Generator API integration, companies can easily connect their internal services and data sources with PDF Generator API, and they don’t need to store document templates within code. The ability to set up a dedicated Enterprise Deployment or use the on-premises version allows larger companies to use the latest tools within their infrastructure and comply with all the necessary regulations and security processes.
You can gain more insights into how existing customers from this segment— Bigbank, URBN, and Ivesins — have utilized the PDF Generator API in their business processes.
Conclusion
As you can see, PDF Generator API is genuinely a flexible product that adapts to the needs and requirements of its customers, regardless of the sector – independent of whether it is implemented on top of an existing stack or used as a building block for something entirely new.
PDF Generator API is considered a suitable solution for companies operating in highly regulated sectors, such as banking. Not meeting regulatory requirements in terms of security and operability is often the obstacle that renders many of the solutions on the market unfit for use.
This is where PDF Generator API stands out.