Whole business documents

The papers a business sends out every day, written by the machine that already holds the figures.

An invoice, a delivery note, a payslip, a contract, a certificate, a boarding pass, a sheet of shelf labels. These are whole documents rather than pieces of one: each comes out as a file anybody can open, print, send by e-mail or file away, on any machine, without owning any particular program.

Nothing on them is typed twice. The amounts, the addresses and the dates are read out of the system that already holds them — the order, the payroll, the stock list — so the total printed on the page is the total in the accounts, and the two cannot drift apart.

What it saves you

Nobody retypes anything
Every figure is read from where it already lives. A figure that is never retyped is a figure that can never be mistyped, and a wrong amount on an invoice is not a small matter.
Ten thousand documents cost the same effort as one
A month-end run of invoices is one instruction rather than an afternoon of work. The ten thousandth document is produced exactly like the first, and nobody grows tired halfway.
Your customer pays without copying a bank number
The square code on the invoice carries the transfer itself. A banking application reads it and offers to pay that exact amount into that exact account, so a wrong digit cannot happen.
Nothing is charged per document
There is no counter running and no price per page. A business that writes ten documents a year and one that writes ten thousand a day pay the same for producing them: nothing.

See it done

Every one of these is a real PDF this library wrote, with the source that wrote it.

A commercial invoice

A commercial invoice: letterhead, logo, a billed-lines table, totals, and a QR code that pays it by SEPA transfer.

A delivery note

The note that travels with the goods: a barcode against each article, a box the receiver ticks, and the consignment's own code.

A payslip

A payslip: eighteen contribution lines with employee and employer shares, the month against the year to date.

A landscape certificate

A landscape certificate whose border and seal are drawn line by line rather than placed as pictures.

A boarding pass

A boarding pass carrying the IATA BCBP string a gate scanner reads.