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Quick Start

Create your account, design a template, and generate your first PDF in under 5 minutes.

1. Create Your Account

Head to documentstack.dev and click Get Started. Sign up with your email or use Google/GitHub login.

After signing up, you'll be guided through a quick onboarding to create your first Organization. Organizations are workspaces where your team collaborates on documents.

2. Create a Project

Projects group related templates together. For example, you might have a "Billing" project for invoices and receipts, and a "HR" project for offer letters and contracts.

  1. From the dashboard, click New Project
  2. Give it a name (e.g., "My First Project")
  3. Click Create

3. Design a Template

Templates are the layouts for your documents. You design them once, then generate unlimited PDFs by passing different data.

  1. Open your project and click New Template
  2. The visual Studio Editor opens with a blank A4 canvas
  3. Add elements from the toolbar — text, images, tables, fields
  4. Drag to position, resize with handles, style in the inspector panel
  5. Click Save when you're happy with the design

Use Dynamic Fields

Add Field elements for data that changes per document. Set a field key like customer_name and it will be replaced with real data when you generate a PDF.

4. Generate Your First PDF

You can generate PDFs in two ways:

Option A: From the Editor

Click the Preview button in the Studio Editor. Enter sample data for your fields and hit Generate to download a PDF instantly.

Option B: Via the API

For production use, generate PDFs programmatically:

  1. Go to your project → API Keys tab
  2. Click Create API Key and copy it
  3. Make an API call:
Bash
curl -X POST https://api.documentstack.dev/api/v1/generate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "templateId": "YOUR_TEMPLATE_ID",
    "data": {
      "customer_name": "Acme Corp",
      "amount": "$1,250.00"
    }
  }' \
  --output document.pdf

That's it — you have a generated PDF!

Want to skip cURL? Use our Node.js, Python, or Go SDK to generate PDFs in just 3 lines of code.

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