📅 2025-01-07 — Session: Automated PDF and Messaging System for Municipal Invoices

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

Session Goal

The session aimed to develop an automated system for generating and managing municipal invoice payments, including PDF generation and messaging.

Key Activities

  1. Instructivo para el Pago de Facturas Municipales: Created a detailed guide for tenants on how to access and pay municipal invoices, covering payment methods, due dates, and late fees.
  2. Generación de Mensajes para Pagos de Facturas Municipales: Developed a Python script to generate personalized payment messages using a dataset called ‘bills’.
  3. Código para Generar PDFs Dinámicamente: Provided a Python code example for generating personalized PDFs using the FPDF library.
  4. Solución para error de instalación de fpdf: Addressed installation errors with fpdf by providing solutions and alternatives using fpdf2.
  5. PDF Generation for Tenant Invoices: Delivered a complete Python code example for generating tenant invoice PDFs with detailed instructions.
  6. Generación de PDFs desde Markdown usando FPDF y pdfkit: Explained the conversion of Markdown to PDF using markdown and pdfkit libraries.
  7. Ajustes Estéticos para PDF con CSS y pdfkit: Enhanced PDF aesthetics by adjusting margins and incorporating custom CSS.

Achievements

  • Successfully created a comprehensive system for managing municipal invoice payments, including automated messaging and PDF generation.
  • Resolved technical issues related to library installations and PDF styling.

Pending Tasks

  • Further testing and validation of the automated system to ensure reliability in various scenarios.