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by travelinmyblood 837 days ago
First reaction - congrats guys, this is a problem I have in my own business.

Second reaction - the pricing is way over the top and the model is unusual. In your own pitch you talk about the volume of documents created every day. How does that square with per document pricing?

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Thanks! We're fine-tuning our pricing model and realize we have some work to do in this area hahaha! Indeed, at a certain scale, per-document pricing becomes almost impossible (we're talking about millions of documents generated daily). As noted in another comment, costs vary significantly depending on the PDF type, from simple receipts to large multi-page reports, especially since we currently rely on other proprietary software that incurs high costs. In the future, we aim to offer more than just document generation (like e-signature, analytics, hosting, editor, etc.) and hope to move away from "per document" pricing for high volumes. That said, our open-source library allows anyone to design a document and use their preferred renderer for PDF conversion, with all the pros and cons each solution provides. There are more comments about pricing providing additional information; feel free to dive in if you have any comments or questions