Papely — Generate personalized PDFs in bulk from your own template

Papely turns a PDF template and a spreadsheet into hundreds of personalized documents — generated in bulk, delivered by email, and tracked recipient by recipient.

Your own PDF, nothing to redesign. Papely is not a document builder. Your design already went through your brand, your printer and your legal team: you upload that exact PDF and Papely puts a personalization and delivery layer on top of it.

Features

• Your PDF as the template — upload the file you already have; no rebuilding it inside a proprietary editor
• Visual field editor — place text, image, date, qr and table fields directly on the page
• Variable-length tables — a fixed column schema with a different number of rows per document
• Bulk generation — import a CSV or Excel file and get a ZIP with one PDF per row
• Email delivery with tracking — per-recipient status: sent / delivered / bounced / downloaded
• Download verification — optional 6-digit code sent to the recipient's own address before the PDF is released
• Public REST API — versioned HTTP API to generate a single PDF programmatically
• MCP server — let an AI assistant generate documents from your templates
• Google Sheets add-on — run the whole flow without leaving your spreadsheet
• Separated history — generations are tracked per origin (web, API, Sheets, MCP)
• English and Spanish — the whole product, both languages

How It Works

1. Upload your PDF — any PDF works; upload once, reuse forever
2. Define the editable fields visually — text, image, date, QR, table
3. Import your data (CSV / Excel) and launch the batch — download it as a ZIP
4. Send and track — map the email column once, then see who received and downloaded each document

Use Cases

• Certificates and diplomas — bulk-generate course certificates with each attendee's name
• Invoices — monthly invoices from a spreadsheet, with a line-item table per client
• Contracts and offer letters — fill client or employee details from a sheet
• Badges and credentials — event passes with a per-attendee QR code
• Product catalogs — a personalized catalog per customer or distributor
• Franchise documents — the same corporate document, localized per location

Four Surfaces, One Engine

Surface	What it's for
Web app	Design the template, import data, launch batches, review history
Public REST API	Generate a single PDF from your own backend — versioned and documented
MCP server	Expose your templates to an AI assistant as callable tools
Google Sheets add-on	Generate and send straight from the spreadsheet

Templates, email delivery and per-recipient tracking are shared across all four.

For Developers

Generate one PDF programmatically from a template you designed in the web app:

Base URL: https://papely.app/api/public/v1

GET  /templates              # list your templates
GET  /templates/:id          # field schema of one template
POST /images                 # upload an image to use in an image field
POST /generations            # generate one PDF
POST /generations/batch      # generate a batch
GET  /generations/:id        # generation status
GET  /generations/:id/document   # download the resulting PDF
GET  /generations/:id/emails     # per-recipient delivery status

The API is versioned, rate-limited and authenticated with a workspace credential you create in the dashboard. Full reference: papely.app/docs/api · Overview: papely.app/pdf-generation-api

Pricing

	Free	Pro
Generations / month	20	1,000
Price	€0	€19 / month · €190 / year
PDF templates	Yes	Yes
CSV / Excel import	Yes	Yes
Email delivery + tracking	Yes	Yes
Public API, MCP, Sheets add-on	Yes	Yes
History retention	30 days	180 days
Delivered document retention	90 days	2 years
Storage	100 MB	5 GB

Generation packs — one-time purchases that never expire and stack on top of your monthly allowance:

Pack	Price
250 generations	€9
1,000 generations	€29
5,000 generations	€119

Custom plans available for higher volumes. No credit card required for the free plan.

Security and Privacy

• TLS in transit; files stored in Cloudflare R2 behind expiring signed URLs
• Documents are delivered as tracked links, never as email attachments
• Optional download verification by code, sent only to the delivery address itself
• GDPR-compliant, with real self-service account deletion

Guides

• Generate PDFs from Excel
• Generate PDFs from Google Sheets
• Fill a PDF from Excel data
• Mail merge to individual PDFs
• Send personalized PDFs by email
• Create QR code badges from Excel
• Personalized product catalogs
• Franchise document automation
• Papely vs PDFMonkey
• Papely vs PDF Generator API

Links

• Website: papely.app
• Pricing: papely.app/pricing
• API docs: papely.app/docs/api
• Support: support@papely.app

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This repository hosts the public overview of Papely. The product source code is private.