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Automate Document Generation with Plumsail Documents and Integrately

March 21, 2025
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    If you create invoices, contracts, or reports daily and would like to automate the document generation process and save time and effort, Plumsail and Integrately will help you achieve this. With these two products, you can automate document generation and create workflows that work for you.

    In this article, you will learn what is Plumsail Documents and how to connect it to Integrately to improve your productivity. We will explore a few practical use cases, so you get the gist of what’s possible.

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    What is Plumsail Documents?

    Plumsail Documents is a powerful tool to automate document generation and delivery. You can generate documents automatically by pulling data from your favorite app, databases, or simply by filling in a web form. It will create a document based on a template which can further be saved to your preferred cloud storage, delivered via email, or sent for signature. By using different triggers, it allows users to have full control over workflows and automation.

    Key Features of Plumsail Documents

    • Create documents based on templates – Create documents from templates using tokens which are dynamically populated with data from your data sources. 
    • Choose output formats – Get your output documents saved and delivered in different formats such as DOCX, PDF, XLSX, PPTX, and more. 
    • Automate Workflows – Choose different deliveries via email, save to any cloud storage or trigger further automation.
    • Integrate with popular apps – Connect to different CRMs, and databases or choose an automation workflow tool like Integrately. Plumsail Documents have over 2000 integrations! 
    • E-sign documents and create approval workflows – Automatically send documents to be signed and create different approval workflows.

    How to connect Plumsail Documents to Integrately 

    With Plumsail and Integrately you can automate document workflows with a few clicks by connecting it to 1200+ apps. Here are a few necessary steps:

    Step 1: Sign Up for Integrately

    1. Go to Integrately website and sign up for free or log into your account
    2. Click on Create New Automation

    Step 2: Select Plumsail Documents and Your Desired App

    1. Search for Plumsail Documents in the app list
    2. Search for another app you want to integrate with. Integrately has over 1200 apps to choose from. 
    3. Choose the trigger and corresponding action.

    Step 3: Configure the Integration

    1. Authenticate your Plumsail Documents account with the API key
    2. Map the necessary fields
    3. Test the workflow

    Step 4: Activate Automation

    Once you tested the flow and you are satisfied with the outcome, Turn On the automation and your documents will be processed automatically based the defined triggers.

    Practical Use Cases of Plumsail Documents and Integrately

    Automate Invoice Generation

    Example: Suppose you want to automate invoice generation for new Shopify orders. In this case, you would set the trigger as “Order Created in Shopify”, and the action as “Start a Process in Plumsail Documents” to generate and send the invoice to the customer.

    By using this automation, your customers will instantly get a PDF invoice sent to their email address. 

    Automate Invoice Generation when order is created

    Create Contracts for New Clients

    Example: Suppose you want to automate contract generation for new HubSpot contacts. In this case, you would set the trigger as “Contact Created in HubSpot”, and the action as “Start a Process in Plumsail Documents” to generate and send the contract for e-signature.

    To set this up, you’ll need to create a process in Plumsail Documents, upload a contract template, and choose the preferred delivery method for e-signature.

    Create Contracts for New Clients

    Save Documents to Cloud Storage

    Example: You can start this automation with any trigger of your choice. The trigger will then initiate the “Start a Process in Plumsail Documents” action, which will generate a document based on the selected template and save it to Plumsail Documents’ cloud storage.

    Start a process in Plumsail Documents

    To save the resulting document to your cloud, you can choose one of the built-in delivery options inside Plumsail Documents. In this case, your automation in Integrately will end with the ‘Start a process’ action, and the process itself will handle the document delivery.

    handle the document delivery

    Otherwise, you can add another action after the ‘Start a process’ action in Integrately and use its output to save the document to your cloud storage.

    Automate Report Creation and Distribution

    You can automate report creation and distribution using Plumsail Documents. Example: Suppose you use Google Sheets as your database—you can set the trigger as “New Spreadsheet Row Created in Google Sheets.” This will initiate the action “Generate Document from PPTX Template in Plumsail Documents.” It allows you to automatically deliver the report via email, save it to cloud storage, or send it to Slack or Microsoft Teams.

    Automate Report Creation and Distribution

    These are just a few cases to explain the basic use of Plumsail Documents with Integrately. There is much more to it. These kinds of automations can save and streamline operations across different departments in your company.

    List of Plumsail Documents Actions in Integrately

    Plumsail Documents actions in Integrately to generate documents from templates:

    • Start a Process in Plumsail Documents
    • Generate Document from DOCX template 
    • Generate Document from fillable PDF
    • Generate Document from HTML template
    • Generate Document from PPTX template
    • Generate Document from XLSX template

    Plumsail Documents actions in Integrately to convert different types of documents:

    • Convert HTML to PDF
    • Convert HTML to DOCX 
    • Convert PDF to BMP
    • Convert XLSX to PDF
    • Convert XLS to XLSX 
    • Convert DOCX to PDF 
    • Convert PDF to Text
    • Convert PPTX to PDF
    • Convert PPT to PPTX
    • Convert PDF to JPEG
    • Convert PDF to PNG
    • Convert Images to PDF
    • Convert CSV to Excel
    • Convert DOC to DOCX

    And a few more actions to work with PDFs:

    • Add PDF watermark in PDF
    • Split PDF
    • Fill in PDF form
    • Add text watermark to PDF
    • Protect PDF
    • Compress PDF
    • Merge PDF
    • Add image Watermark to PDF

    Actions like Create Archive, Extract from Archive, and Merge DOCX could be also found and used with Integrately.

    Conclusion

    Documents are at the heart of every business, but creating them manually can be time-consuming and prone to errors. With Plumsail Documents and Integrately, you can automate this entire process—turning routine tasks into seamless workflows. 

    Whether it’s generating invoices, contracts, or reports, automation ensures speed, accuracy, and consistency while freeing you up for more meaningful work. Instead of spending hours on document creation, let automation handle it, so you can focus on growing your business.

    Author - Abhishek A Agrawal
    Abhishek is the founder of Integrately, CompanyHub, and Dreamwares. He is passionate about technology and entrepreneurship. He is always looking to leverage technology for the growth of the business. He has a deep understanding of how businesses work and uses this knowledge to build products that help entrepreneurs grow their businesses.

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