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PDFMonkey
Add PDFMonkey to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
Embed a PDFMonkey integration so your product can turn structured data into a finished PDF without you running a rendering service. PDFMonkey is a document generation API: a template written in HTML and Liquid defines the layout, your product posts the data, and generation runs asynchronously with a webhook when the file is ready. It is a generation surface rather than a document library, so the sensible pattern is to generate the file and then file it into the storage the customer already governs. fastn handles per-customer credentials, retries and API upkeep, and delivers the completion event as a replayable trigger so a document finished during an outage is not lost.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Generate invoices, certificates, reports or quotes from your product's own data using a template per document type.
Let each customer point your product at their own PDFMonkey workspace and templates so their branding applies without a fork in your code.
React to the generation webhook to pick up the finished file and store or send it, rather than polling for it.
Read and update templates programmatically when a customer's document layout is part of your product's configuration.
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
An agent assembles the data for a document and requests generation within scoped permissions, with the call audited.
An agent checks whether a requested document finished or failed before it reports back.
An agent reacts to a completed generation and files the result into the customer's own document storage.
Example prompt
Generate this month's summary PDF from the invoice template and tell me when it is ready.
Set up PDFMonkey in 4 steps
- 01Open the PDFMonkey connector from your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer connect their own PDFMonkey workspace with an API key.
- 03Select the templates your product generates from and enable the generation actions and completion trigger.
- 04Call them from your product, or expose them to an agent through the MCP server.
Why teams use the PDFMonkey integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship a PDFMonkey integration without building it. Your customers connect their own PDFMonkey account inside your product and work their services, builds and deployments there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: these systems emit a lot of webhooks, and replay after downtime has to be handled. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so a PDFMonkey update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed PDFMonkey connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you connect engineering activity to the rest of the business without wiring it twice.
Used by these teams
Works well with
Formstack Documents
Docusign
AirtableOften used alongside
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How do I add a PDFMonkey integration to my product?
Enable the PDFMonkey connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own PDFMonkey account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no PDFMonkey client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own PDFMonkey account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own PDFMonkey account and only ever sees their own services, builds and deployments. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this PDFMonkey integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. An agent assembles the data for a document and requests generation within scoped permissions, with the call audited.
Who maintains the PDFMonkey integration?
fastn does. When PDFMonkey changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
Can I react to PDFMonkey events in real time?
Yes, through event triggers. Events are delivered per tenant and can be replayed after an outage, so a webhook missed during downtime is not silently lost.
Can an agent open or update items in PDFMonkey?
Yes, within scoped permissions, and every action is audited so an agent's changes are attributable.
What can I build with the PDFMonkey integration?
A common starting point: generate invoices, certificates, reports or quotes from your product's own data using a template per document type. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the PDFMonkey integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding PDFMonkey does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add PDFMonkey to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.