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PDF-based invoicing offers a secure, professional, and easily accessible way to deliver invoices. With its standardized format, it ensures consistent presentation across devices, simplifies record-keeping, and reduces the likelihood of tampering, providing reliability and ease for both businesses and clients.
PDF-based invoicing is only available for premium plans.

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Templating

You can provide a custom template for your PDF-based invoicing. Templates use standardized HTML syntax and allow for both basic and advanced customization. To allow templating, Plude use Handlebars syntax.

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Syntax

Handlebars is a simple templating language. It uses a template and an input object to generate HTML or other text formats. Handlebars templates look like regular text with embedded Handlebars expressions. 
<p>{{firstname}} {{lastname}}</p>

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Footers

You can append a footer to all pages by adding a <footer> tag. Only text inside the footer is allowed, no HTML. 
<footer>
    This will be displayed on all pages.
</footer>

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Helpers

Plude provide a list of different helpers to code the template.

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#if

You can use the if helper to conditionally render a block. If its argument returns false, undefined, null, "", 0, or [], Handlebars will not render the block. 
<div>
{{#if name}}
Name will be displayed
{{/if}}
</div>

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#unless

You can use the unless helper as the inverse of the if helper. Its block will be rendered if the expression returns a falsy value. 
<div>
{{#unless name}}
Name will be not displayed
{{/unless}}
</div>

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#each

Each provide a for-loop to iterate arrays. 
<ol>
    {{#each Items}} 
        <li>{{name}}</li>
    {{/each}}
</ol>

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#with

The with-helper allows you to change the evaluation context of template-part. 
<div>
{{#with Customer}}
<span>Name {{Name}}</span>
{{/with}}
</div>

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#format

Format enables output formatting. Format use a variable defining the format of the value.
#format value variable 
<div>
Format a date: {{#format Date 'd'}} or a number: {{#format Amount 'N'}}
</div>

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#money (currencies)

You can format money and currencies using the money helper.
#money value currency 
<span>
Total amount is {{#money Amount Currency}}
</span>

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#due

You can use due to determine if date is due. Date will be compared with the current time and date. 
<div>
{{#due Date}}
date is due
{{else}}
date is not due
{{/due}}
</div>