Add image and video creation to your product without building a canvas engine. Polotno SDK gives your team an embeddable editor, structured design data, templates, and several rendering options. You keep users inside your product and connect the editor to your accounts, assets, storage, and automation.
Add design features without owning a canvas engine
A production design editor needs more than drag and drop. Your team must handle text editing, media uploads, selection, transforms, templates, exports, undo history, and browser differences. Video, mobile support, and print output add more work.
Polotno provides those editing systems as an SDK. Your engineers can focus on the workflow that makes your SaaS product different. The image editing API guide explains the cost and maintenance tradeoffs between an SDK and an internal build.
Choose how customers create
Embed a full editor
Place the editor inside your application. Use your own navigation, account system, fonts, templates, and asset library. Customers can create or update designs without opening another product.
Guide users with controlled templates
Start customers with approved layouts instead of a blank canvas. Lock brand elements and expose selected text, image, color, or size controls. This works well for products that serve non-designers.
Generate designs in the background
Your product does not need to show an editor. Code can fill template fields, replace images, create variants, and send the final design to a renderer. The Someli case study shows this model in production.
Fit the editor into a multi-tenant SaaS architecture
Polotno represents each design as JSON. Your application can treat that JSON as another customer-owned record.
A common SaaS workflow uses these steps:
- Your application authenticates the user and identifies the tenant.
- Your backend returns the tenant's templates, fonts, media, and permissions.
- The editor loads a design and exposes the tools allowed for that account.
- Your application saves the updated design JSON in its own database.
- The browser, your server, or Polotno Cloud renders the required output.
This structure supports draft recovery, template versioning, account limits, and re-editing. The template library architecture guide covers storage, permissions, previews, and version history.
Control tools, templates, and brand rules
Your product decides what each user can change. You can hide panels, replace UI components, register custom assets, and limit editing by role. Locked elements protect logos, disclaimers, and layout structure.
Use user management controls to match editor access to your account roles. Use dynamic templates when customer data or automation must update a design.
Choose a rendering model
Polotno supports browser export, server-side rendering, and cloud rendering. Your team can select a model based on output type, data policy, and workload.
- Browser export works for interactive downloads and previews.
- Self-hosted rendering keeps the render process in your infrastructure.
- Cloud rendering handles queued jobs and changing batch volume.
The rendering guide compares these options. Teams that process large jobs can also use the batch rendering guide for queue, retry, and idempotency patterns.
SaaS teams using Polotno
Someli.ai added Polotno to its content automation pipeline in three weeks. One designer can now support more than 50 client accounts through controlled templates and automation.
Brand Ninja launched template-driven image and video generation in one week. The team reports saving more than six months of development and avoiding two additional engineering hires.
Product patterns
- No-code builders that add image or video generation actions.
- AI products that place generated text and media into approved templates.
- SaaS platforms that give each tenant a branded template library.
- Marketplaces that create product ads from seller data.
- Internal tools that standardize design output across teams.
FAQs
Can Polotno match our product interface?
Yes. You can control the visible tools, panels, fonts, colors, templates, and surrounding application UI.
Where do we store customer designs?
Your application can store design JSON and asset references in its own database. Customers can return to the same record and continue editing.
Can different account roles receive different editing controls?
Yes. Your application can load different tools, templates, and permissions for each role or plan.
Can a no-code action generate a design?
Yes. Map action inputs to template fields, update the design JSON, and send the result to your selected renderer.
Do we need Polotno Cloud?
No. You can export in the browser or run server-side rendering. Polotno Cloud provides another option for managed render jobs.
Can customers create both images and video?
Yes. The editor supports static designs, animation, and video workflows within the same product integration.
