
From CSV to Professional Reports in One API Call
I watched someone spend 45 minutes formatting a sales report. They had all the numbers in a spreadsheet. The layout was the same as last week. But they still had to copy data into a Word template, fix the alignment, recalculate the totals, and export to PDF. Every Monday. That felt like a problem an API should solve. If the data is structured and the layout is fixed, the entire formatting step is deterministic. Send the data, pick a template, get a report. That became ReportForge API . What it does Two endpoints, each taking structured data and returning a complete HTML report: Endpoint Input Output POST /api/csv-to-report CSV string + template name Styled HTML report + metadata POST /api/json-to-report JSON array + template name Styled HTML report + metadata Seven templates, each designed for a specific business use case: Template Required Columns Use Case sales-summary item , amount Weekly/monthly sales reviews expense-report description , amount Bookkeeping, reimbursement inventory-
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