Key concepts

New to Pagr? These are the terms you’ll meet throughout the docs, grouped by area. Each links to the page that covers it in full.

Templates

Template — the reusable definition of a document: its layout, styling, and content, with variables for the parts that change each time. You design a template once and render it many times with different data. See Templates.

Master template — a shared layout and branding that individual templates can inherit, so common elements live in one place. See Master Templates.

AI Assistant — the panel in the editor that builds and edits a template from plain-language prompts (“make me an invoice”, “make the totals bold”), so you never have to write the definition by hand. See Build with AI.

Version — an independent copy of a template you can iterate on without affecting the one in use. A template can hold several. See Versions and publishing.

Draft / Published (LIVE) — a version’s status. A Draft is a work in progress; the Published version (marked LIVE) is the one your production integration renders.

Data

Variable — a value that changes on each render (a name, a date, a total). The set of variables a template expects is its data model. See Variables and the data model.

Placeholder — the {{ }} token you put in a template where a variable’s value should appear, for example {{customerName}}. See Template structure.

Data model — the shape of data a template expects — every variable’s name and type. It’s defined by the template’s sample data and locked when a version is published.

Sample data — example values used to preview and test-render a template. They’re not your production data; your integration supplies real values for the same variables at render time.

Rendering & output

Render — the act of generating a finished document from a version plus data, and also the document that comes out. See Renders.

Test render — a watermarked render that does not count toward your page credits — use it while designing.

Production render — the final, unwatermarked document, which counts toward your page credits.

Render event — a logged record of each render operation, useful for tracking and troubleshooting. See Render Events.

Workspace & account

Organisation — your company’s Pagr account: it holds your users, settings, and billing. See Create an account.

Workspace — where you build and manage everything: templates, master templates, projects, the image gallery, and fonts.

Project — a folder that groups related templates within a workspace. See Projects.

Page credits — your plan’s allowance of production render pages. Test renders don’t use them. See Billing.

Related articles

• Quickstart: your first document — see these concepts in action end to end.
• Templates — the hub for building, versioning, and rendering.
• Variables and the data model and Versions and publishing.