2 posts tagged with "generate invoice pdf"

Every SaaS product and e-commerce store eventually needs to generate invoice PDFs. Most teams start with a Word template, Canva, or a drag-and-drop builder, and that works fine for five invoices a month. Once you hit hundreds or thousands, you need something that runs without human input.

This guide covers three ways to generate invoice PDFs with an HTML to PDF API: raw HTML templates, Handlebars-based templates with dynamic data, and AI-generated templates. Complete with working code in Node.js and Python that you can run.

If you need to generate PDFs from HTML in a production app, you have two options: run a local rendering tool yourself (Puppeteer, Playwright, wkhtmltopdf) or call an HTML to PDF API that does the rendering for you. This tutorial covers the API approach with a complete Node.js example that generates invoice PDFs using EJS templates and the PDFBolt API. You will also find a comparison with headless browser solutions to help you pick the right tool for your project.