PDF Generator API | Bubble — add PDF generation functionality to your application

Easily create transactional PDF documents from your Bubble Application

Whether you need to create invoices, packing slips, contracts or labels, PDF Generator API helps you easily create the document templates and generate polished documents with the data you already have available. You can even allow your users to modify their templates without any development effort!

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Install Bubble plugin

You can use the free Sandbox Account for 3 months to evaluate and integrate the API. The Sandbox Account allows you to make 2500 merges per month.

Introduction

Bubble is the most powerful no-code platform, empowering entrepreneurs to build production-ready web apps. Bubble lets you create interactive, multi-user apps for desktop and mobile web browsers, including all the features you need to build a site like Facebook or Airbnb. Build out logic and manage a database with our intuitive, fully customizable platform.

You can use PDF Generator API Bubble Plugin to quickly generate PDF documents using the data you already have in your Bubble application (e.g. store orders, database records etc.). You can find the example application built with Bubble and PDF Generator API Plugin here.

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Use-cases

Here are some use-cases that you might have in your application. If you have a use-case that we have not covered, please contact us support@pdfgeneratorapi.com

Open generated document or editor in a new tab

The ability to open links in a new tab is essential, and to achieve this, you can use the Toolbox plugin, which allows you to run Javascript and take advantage of window.open function. In our example application, we use the Tooltbox Run javascript action after PDF API - Generate Document command to open the generated document on a new page. You can do the same with the PDF API - Open Editor Action to open the editor in a new tab.
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Use Bubble Database object as JSON data

It is possible to use your Bubble Database object (e.g. User, Company, Order etc.) as the data source for the generated document. If you want to send a Bubble Database object, you can use jsonNest plugin to convert your Database object to JSON automatically. The jsonNest plugin supports deeply nested objects and allows you to configure field names. Please see their documentation for more information.
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Send PDF document via email

Most of the transactional email APIs (e.g SendGrid, Mailchimp) allow you to add attachments to your email as base64 encoded content. You can use the PDF API - Generate Document Action with Output type set to base64 to attach the generated PDF file to an email.

You could use the Bubble SendGrid plugin to easily create a Workflow that generates PDF from your database object and sends an email with an attachment.
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What our customers say about us?

I would recommend PDF Generator API to everyone that needs to print something into PDF. Think about it: if you are creating software that focuses on accounting then you want to focus on accounting. You shouldn't waste time with coding fancy forms that you can easily drag-drop using PDF Generator API.

Taavi Hõbejõgi

Erply Books

We realized early on that developing a PDF creator in-house wouldn't make any sense when there are well-working solutions such as PDF Generator API available on the market.

Kristjan Annus

Fleet Complete

PDF Generator API allows our customers to quickly design and print multiple document template types for Invoice PDFs, Picking/Packing Slips, Drop Notes, Address labels and pretty much any other document. Building a similar functionality in-house would have cost a lot of money in terms of resources.