White-label document template editor you embed in your SaaS or ERP

Template editors usually sit in an admin panel that only your team can reach. A customer wants their delivery note changed, so they email support, support writes a ticket, a developer edits a layout file, and the change ships with the next release. The customer waited two weeks for a moved logo.

PDF Generator API inverts that. Design the starting templates once, then open the editor inside your product and let each customer adjust their own copy. Call POST /templates/{templateId}/editor and you get back a unique URL that already carries the authentication. Drop it into an iframe, or redirect the user to it. They edit, they save, and the next document your application generates uses their version.

A document editor looks like a week of work until you start. You need a canvas that maps to physical page sizes, page break behaviour that survives a table of unknown length, headers and footers that repeat, a data field picker, a preview that matches the printed output, and a renderer that produces the same result on every browser your customers use.

Then it never stays finished. Someone needs a second page. Someone needs a barcode. Someone needs the tax row hidden when the buyer is outside the EU. Someone needs the whole thing in German. Every one of those is a ticket against the editor you built to reduce tickets, and none of it is the product your users signed up for.

PDF Generator API gives you the editor as an API. We maintain the canvas, the components, the renderer and the browser support. You get a URL, embed it, and ship.

Most platforms arrive here from a desktop report designer like Crystal Reports, SSRS or Jasper, or from templates hardcoded in the codebase. Both tie the layout to your release cycle, and neither can be handed to a customer. There is no report-file import, but there is a path: load a printed PDF of the report as the template background, map your JSON fields onto it, publish it as an organization default so every existing tenant keeps today’s layout, then open the editor for the customers who want their own variant. Paragon ERP was charging thousands per template change before they moved.