Hybiscus

Generate high-quality PDF reports using a JSON API

Sold out

You want to blow clients away with your reports, but the only person impressed with your basic Microsoft Word skills might be your mom. (“Apparently no one justifies text like I do.”)

Learning how to design engaging PDF reports from scratch is a huge time suck—especially when you need to focus your energy on perfecting your content.

If only you could automatically generate high-quality PDF reports using a simple declarative API.

Meet Hybiscus.

TL;DR

too long didn't read
Create stunning PDF reports with a JSON schema and a variety of themes—no design skills required
Alternative to: BannerBear
Get notified when your reports are generated and upload them directly to your cloud provider

At-a-glance

Overview

Hybiscus is a developer-friendly API that lets you easily create high-quality, branded PDF reports without any design skills.

With Hybiscus, you can generate stunning reports that visualize KPIs and metrics on sales, bounce rate, and customer retention.

Use a simple JSON schema to define content in reports for any use case and convert them into high-quality PDFs.

You’ll also be able to design and develop PDFs right in your browser with the Cloud Editor.

You can swap out components, try different themes, and see your results right away.

JSON schema

Use a simple JSON schema and minimal code to craft professional PDF reports for any use case.

You can access a growing collection of pre-designed components to take your reports to the next level.

That way, you’ll be able to visualize data with custom charts, cards, and images without relying on third parties.

And if you need more than one page for your content to shine, Hybiscus also lets you create multi-page PDF reports.

Data visualization components

Hybiscus comes packed with pre-designed components to help you visualize your most important data.

To get started, just choose from a variety of designed components to spruce up your content.

You can select Hybiscus’ color and typography themes, and even add your own custom colors to your palette.

Best of all, you’ll be able to add custom logos to your report via URL so all your materials reflect consistent branding.

Color and typography themes

Change the look and feel of your PDFs with a selection of expertly crafted color themes and font pairings.

Hybiscus processes everything in the cloud, so you don’t have to worry about complex dependencies like LaTeX.

You’ll be able to upload PDF reports directly to cloud providers like Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services.

Plus, this tool offers webhooks support, ensuring that you’ll receive a notification as soon as your reports are generated.

Developer integrations

Hybiscus is packed with developer integrations like cloud storage upload and webhooks support, making PDF generation a cinch.

Just because you aren’t a designer doesn’t mean your PDF reports should be boring. (“Maybe writing everything in Wingdings would get the party started?”)

Hybiscus streamlines PDF generation, allowing you to swap out components, try different themes, and tweak the results for better reports all around.

Deliver stunning PDF reports in a snap.

Get lifetime access to Hybiscus today!

Hybiscus

Hybiscus

Hybiscus.dev
FounderFounder
Ismail Uddin
Co-founder

Updates from Hybiscus

May 06, 2022

Posted Feb 9, 2023

May 07, 2022

Posted Feb 9, 2023

Questions
Reviews

Questions & Reviews

Log in to ask a question
Showing 5 of 34 questions

Q: Planning an Appsumo Comeback??

Marty! we need to got back to 1955.
Why's that Doc?
We need to purchase Hybiscus when it launched on Appsumo!
Well, have you checked their activity on the public Roadmap?
Where we're going.... we dont need roadmaps!

Zoooooooommmmmm!

112481922371292239484Oct 24, 2024
See detail
Share
Helpful?

Q: I think this is important for us as well: 8.

Can we generate PDF in landscape mode for standard A4 size certificate?

Sumo.Ling23693PLUSJul 14, 2022
See detail
Founder Team
Ismail59059

Ismail59059

May 14, 2024

A: Hi there,

Thanks for this question. Actually this isn't supported currently but it's a very good request. We'll add this to your feature requests to see how we could support this!

Share
Helpful?

Q: I am not able to edit my previous questions, but some last question: 6.

We usually host about ~1,000 participants in our virtual event, can Hybiscus generate all PDF certificates for the participants in one go? How does it work.. Does it has rate limiting etc?
7. Do you have any FB or Discord Group?
Thank you.

Sumo.Ling23693PLUSJul 14, 2022
See detail
Founder Team
Ismail59059

Ismail59059

May 14, 2024

A: Hybiscus will need to receive the requests separately for each PDF, and so you will be bound by the rate limits (https://hybiscus.dev/docs/api/rate-limitting) and your quotas of course.

As for a Discord / FB group, we do not currently have one, but we'll look into setting one up!

Share
Helpful?

Q: Hi Ismail, Just noticed that this amazing deal is ending soon!

I have a few questions from a virtual event perspective:
1. I need something more basic than report PDF - Can we generate PDF certificate from Hybiscus? Can we customise the PDF content via a Drag-and-Drop PDF page builder or any other methods that you can advice - TailwindCSS or other FE libraries?
2. Can I generate PDF certificates from the eligible participants list from Google Sheets - With Name and Courses attended and the event date?
2B. If not, any idea how can we automatically generate and send the PDF to those who attended the virtual event via Zoom, MS Teams or Airmeet?
3. Where do you store the PDF after being generated? In Hybiscus? How many quota is allocated for storing PDFs?
4. After generating the PDF certificate, can I use Hybiscus to email the PDF to the participants automatically?
5. Do you plan to have a Python API as we built our functions on Lambda Python v3.7 functions. When will this be ready?
Thank you.

Sumo.Ling23693PLUSJul 14, 2022
See detail
Founder Team
Ismail59059

Ismail59059

May 14, 2024

A: Hi there,
Thanks for all your questions, they're great questions indeed!
We do not currently have a drag and drop builder, as Hybiscus is meant to be an API intended to be accessed programmatically. Although we do have a Cloud Editor (https://hybiscus.dev/cloud-editor) which make it very easy to prototype PDFs.

With regard to Google Sheets, etc. you can certainly get data from any source you like, and put this into the JSON schema you send to Hybiscus to generate your PDFs. The idea is you access the data from your sources yourself, and Hybiscus just receives this. This could be done in your Lambda functions or in an automation tool like Zapier, etc. As for certificates, unfortunately we do not have a landscape format for generating PDFs, but otherwise you are free to try out the various components to design the certificate you would like. We have sizing options for text, font styles, alignment options, colour themes, so I think you could achieve a lot.

The API endpoints are rate limited which is explained here https://hybiscus.dev/docs/api/rate-limitting, and other than you have your monthly quotas to be monitored. The reports are stored on the server for up to 48 hours, after which they are deleted. More preferable is that you use our Cloud Storage Upload feature, where we deposit them directly into your cloud storage, never storing them on the Hybiscus server (https://hybiscus.dev/docs/reports/cloud-storage). In this way, you could fully automate the process in your lambda function to query Google Sheets, send data to Hybiscus to generate a PDF, which automatically deposits into your cloud storage provider, and you can send that out to your users. We do not, however, have built in emailing options in Hybiscus, you would need to do this yourself.
Lastly, with regard to the Python SDK, it is on our roadmap, but much further down as we have had other requests which we deemed more impactful. It would be fairly simple to construct the JSON schema using a Python dictionary and POST that to Hybiscus using a library such as httpx for Python.

I hope we've answered all your questions well, please do let us know otherwise!

Share
Helpful?

Q: Can you pull data from google sheets after fixing a template on Hybiscus?

My plan is to gather all data in google sheets and generate reports for clients

howie8PLUSJul 13, 2022
See detail
Founder Team
Ismail59059

Ismail59059

May 14, 2024

A: Hi there, thanks for the question! Hybiscus does not connect directly to Google Sheets, but you can use automation platforms such as Zapier or your own server to pull data from Google Sheets, format it for Hybiscus, and then send it to Hybiscus. Hope that makes sense!

Share
Helpful?

Sign up

All our deals are time-sensitive! Make sure you don't miss any of our awesome limited-time offers.