Quickstart
This guide walks through generating your first document end-to-end — from creating an account to downloading a PDF. No coding required.
1. Create an account
Sign up at automette.com. You'll land in the dashboard with a default team already provisioned.
2. Pick a template from the library
Open Template Library from the sidebar. The library has a dozen starter templates — invoices, certificates, social posts, banners, payslips. Click any one.
Automette copies the template into a new project under Templates so you can edit it without affecting the library original.
3. Open the template
Click the template you just created. You'll land on the template hub — a page with the design preview at the top and five action tiles below showing the ways you can use it:
- Edit the design — change layout, copy, colors
- Generate a document — fill the field form by hand
- Generate from CSV — bulk-render one document per row
- Share a form — collect data with a public form
- Set up an automation — trigger from Sheets, Airtable, or Zapier
- Use via API — render from your own code
4. Generate your first document
Click Generate a document. Fill in the fields shown on the right. The preview updates as you type. Click Generate — your PDF downloads.
That's it. The render shows up in History with a permanent link.
What's next
- Core concepts — get familiar with the building blocks (templates, renders, jobs) before you go further.
- Bulk generate from CSV — render dozens or thousands of documents from a spreadsheet.
- Share a form — let other people fill in the fields and trigger a render themselves.
- Use the API — render from your own backend with a few lines of code.