Automated PDF and Message Generation for Tenant Invoices

📅 2025-01-07 — Session: Automated PDF and Message Generation for Tenant Invoices

🕒 19:20–19:40
🏷️ Labels: Pdf Generation, Python Automation, Tenant Invoices, Municipal Payments
📂 Project: Business
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to automate the generation of tenant invoices and related payment messages using Python scripts.

Key Activities

• Developed a detailed guide for tenants on how to access and pay municipal invoices, including payment methods, due dates, and penalties.
• Created a Python script to automate the generation of personalized payment messages for municipal invoices using a dataset named ‘bills’.
• Implemented a code snippet for dynamically generating PDFs for tenants with the FPDF library, including customization options with CSS.
• Resolved an installation error with the fpdf library by providing instructions to install setuptools and an alternative using fpdf2.
• Provided a complete Python code example for generating tenant invoice PDFs using fpdf, with detailed instructions and payment information.
• Explored converting Markdown documents to PDFs using markdown and pdfkit libraries, including installation and code examples.
• Enhanced the aesthetics of generated PDFs by adjusting margins and incorporating custom CSS using pdfkit.

Achievements

• Successfully automated the generation of tenant invoices and payment messages.
• Resolved technical issues related to PDF generation and library installation.

Pending Tasks

• Further testing of the automated scripts to ensure robustness and error handling.
• Explore additional customization options for PDF styling and message personalization.