u/Darshan_Vekariya

I’ve rebuilt the same feature 3 times and wondering if it’s just me.

My B2B customers keep asking for customizable invoices/reports—not just colors, but full layout control, custom fields, per-client branding.

Everything I’ve tried breaks at some point:

PDF APIs → no multi-tenant editing

Puppeteer/wkhtmltopdf → messy with many layouts

Canva/Docs → not embeddable

Idea:

An embeddable template editor for SaaS:

drag-drop UI + JSON data binding + API rendering + tenant isolation.

So devs don’t rebuild this every time.

Question:

Do you just avoid this and force fixed templates?

Or did you build something in-house?

Would you pay ~$50–150/mo for this, or still build it?

I’ve rebuilt the same feature 3 times and wondering if it’s just me.

My B2B customers keep asking for customizable invoices/reports—not just colors, but full layout control, custom fields, per-client branding.

Everything I’ve tried breaks at some point:

PDF APIs → no multi-tenant editing

Puppeteer/wkhtmltopdf → messy with many layouts

Canva/Docs → not embeddable

Idea:

An embeddable template editor for SaaS:

drag-drop UI + JSON data binding + API rendering + tenant isolation.

So devs don’t rebuild this every time.

Question:

Do you just avoid this and force fixed templates?

Or did you build something in-house?

Would you pay ~$50–150/mo for this, or still build it?

I'm researching a problem I've hit repeatedly while building B2B tools.

The situation: My customers (small SaaS, agencies, vertical tools) keep asking if their end-users can customize invoice/report templates. Not just colors—full layout changes, different fields, per-client branding.

Current options I've evaluated:

\\- DocRaptor/APITemplate: Great APIs, but single-tenant. My customers can't offer template editing to THEIR customers without building their own layer

\\- PDF libraries (Puppeteer, wkhtmltopdf): Fine for static docs, nightmare when every tenant wants different layouts

\\- No-code tools (Canva, Google Docs): Not embeddable, breaks the workflow

What I'm exploring: An embeddable template editor SaaS companies drop into their product. Their customers design documents (drag-drop, no code), my customers' devs just call an API to render with JSON data.

My questions:

1. Is this a real pain point, or do most SaaS just force standard templates on users?

2. For those who've solved this—did you build in-house or find a tool?

3. If a tool existed that handled the editor + rendering + tenant isolation, would you pay $49-149/mo, or is this a "build it ourselves" feature?

Not selling anything—literally haven't written code yet. Trying to validate if this is worth 3 months of build time.

Context: I'm a dev who's built this 3 times for different projects and wondering if I should productize it or just keep rebuilding from scratch.