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Moving off Documint
A hosted template designer where a document is built by dragging rows, columns, text and images onto a canvas and dropping data tokens into them from a defined field list. Documents are generated from Airtable, HubSpot, Zapier, Make and similar tools, or by sending JSON to its API, and templates can carry e-signature fields.
Why teams move
- It is built for no-code first. The current designer replaced typed Handlebars variables with drag-and-drop tokens, which is the right call for its audience and moves the template further from anything a developer would review as code.
- Long tables lose their header. Its own table guide says that when a looped list flows onto the next page, the header row cannot repeat, so a four-page statement carries column labels on page one only.
- Behaviour is spread across property panels. A loop is set on one row, a display rule on another element, a calculation inside a text block, so what the document does under real data is collected element by element rather than read in one place.
Side by side
Three properties that do not change week to week. No price columns and no feature checkmarks — those go stale quietly, and a comparison that misstates the other tool is worse than none.
| Documint | pdfs.build | |
|---|---|---|
| What you author | Rows, columns and tokens placed in a visual designer. | A design with a schema, edited in plain English. |
| What decides page breaks | Per-row settings such as avoiding a break, plus explicit page-break elements. | The design states them; the engine composes to them. |
| As the data grows | Rows flow onto the next page, and the table header does not follow them. | The ordinary case. Each design records what it does. |
The checkable parts
Claims worth verifying rather than taking on trust — each links to its source, checked September 2026.
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When a looped table flows onto the following page, the table header cannot be repeated on each page.
Documint: How to create Tables ↗ -
Templates are designed by drag and drop, with visual tokens replacing the earlier Handlebars `{{ variable }}` syntax.
Documint: Field Tokens ↗ -
Generates from Airtable, HubSpot, Zapier, Make, Coda and other tools, or from JSON sent to its API.
Documint: How it Works ↗ -
Documint Sign places e-signature fields in templates and sends documents to signers.
Documint Sign ↗
What is different here
Headers that repeat
Repeating table headers, pinned footers and blocks that must not split are part of the design, so a statement that runs to four pages carries its column labels on every one of them.
Behaviour in one place
Loops, conditions and calculations sit in the template source beside its schema and sample data, so they can be read and reviewed together instead of gathered from panel after panel.
Edited in plain English
Changes are described to an assistant that edits the template, its schema and its sample data together, so the person who owns a document can still change it without learning a designer.
When to stay with Documint
It is often the right answer. If any of these describe you, this is not a migration worth making.
- Your data lives in Airtable or HubSpot, and a document is a button on a record or a step in a CRM workflow. Documint connects to those directly; this product has no native connection to either.
- You want e-signature in the same tool as generation. Documint Sign covers that and this product does not.
- Your documents are short, the people who own them are not developers, and the designer is working for them. Do not take that away.
What moving involves
- 1 The template is redrawn rather than exported. The current output is the specification, and the rows-and-columns structure behind it does not need to come across.
- 2 The fields defined in the designer become the template's JSON schema, and the JSON you already send to the API becomes the render payload, usually with little change.
- 3 Airtable buttons, HubSpot workflows and Zapier steps that call Documint need to call the REST API instead. Where those exist, that is the real work of the move.
The API reference covers authentication, the render call and error handling; the template gallery has designs to start from rather than a blank page.
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