Invoice Generator
Create professional invoices in seconds
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About Invoice Generator
Creates a professional invoice with your business details, line items, discount, tax and totals in the currency you choose, ready to send to a client as a PDF.
Enter your business and client details, add line items with quantities and prices, and set a currency, discount and tax rate if you need them. Long invoices continue on extra pages. Download the finished invoice as a PDF. Names and notes in any language work, including accents, ₹ and Hindi.
Keep a consistent invoice numbering system from the start. It makes bookkeeping and tracking which invoices have been paid much easier once you have more than a handful. For India, put your GSTIN in the tax ID box; for the EU, your VAT number.
Watch: Invoice Generator in Action
- Should I use a consistent invoice numbering system?
- Yes — keeping a consistent invoice numbering system from the start makes bookkeeping and tracking which invoices have been paid significantly easier once you have more than a handful.
- How are the discount and tax calculated?
- The subtotal is quantity times price, added up over all rows. The discount percentage is taken from the subtotal, and the tax percentage is then applied to the discounted amount. Each step is rounded to two decimal places, and a discount above 100 percent is treated as 100.
- Which currencies can I choose?
- US dollar, euro, pound, rupee, Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, yen, Singapore dollar, dirham and rand. The choice sets the symbol and number format on the page and in the PDF. It does not convert amounts from one currency to another.
- Can I write names or notes in Hindi or with accents?
- Hindi and accents both work. Accented Latin letters, Greek, Cyrillic, the rupee sign and Devanagari can all appear. Some scripts are drawn as pictures, so they show correctly but cannot be selected as text. If a character cannot be drawn, a warning appears after download.
- What happens when the invoice has many lines?
- The table continues on additional pages, each starting with a note giving the invoice number and the word continued. On invoices of more than one page, every page is numbered in the form Page 1 of 2 near the bottom.
- Why will the tool not produce a PDF yet?
- It needs a business name, a client name, at least one line with a description, a quantity above zero on every used line and a price of zero or more. The first missing item is named in a message, and nothing is generated until it is fixed.
How to use Invoice Generator
Fill in Your Business Name and Client Name, the only required details, then add addresses if you want them printed. The tax ID box takes a GSTIN, VAT number or EIN. Set the Invoice # (it starts at INV-001), the Date and an optional Due Date, and pick a Currency from the list of ten.
Under Line Items, type a Description, Qty and Price for each row, using Add Line Item for more. Enter a Discount (%) and a Tax (%) with a Label such as GST or VAT if they apply. The discount comes off first, and tax is worked out on the reduced amount. The highlighted box shows the total as you type. Add payment details in Notes, tick the approval line if you want a signature space, and press Generate & Download Invoice (PDF).
When to use it
Use it when you are a freelancer, tutor or small shop that needs one clean invoice without setting up accounting software. It suits a one-off job, a first client before you choose a billing system, and invoices in rupees, euros, pounds or one of the other listed currencies. The Notes field can carry bank details or a UPI ID.
When not to use it
It is not a billing system. It keeps no client list, does not track whether an invoice was paid, sends no reminders and does not number invoices for you. If you issue many invoices a month, or your country requires a prescribed electronic invoice format, accounting software is the better route.
Tips for best results
Write each line description the way your client will recognize it, since long descriptions wrap onto several lines and a long invoice continues on extra pages. Enter the discount as a percentage of the subtotal, because tax is applied after it. Change the starting Invoice # before you download, since that number also becomes the PDF file name.
Limitations
The discount is a percentage only, and one tax rate applies to the whole invoice, so mixed-rate items need separate invoices or manual handling. Quantities must be above zero and each row needs a price. The invoice can be added to the project's income list for the visit, but nothing is kept after you close the tab, so keep a copy of the PDF. You must enter the correct tax rate and tax ID for your country, because the tool does not look up or check them. The result is general information and not tax, legal or accounting advice.
Privacy
The invoice is assembled as a PDF inside your browser from what you type. Client names, addresses, amounts and notes are not uploaded. To draw accented, Cyrillic, rupee or Hindi text it may fetch a font file from this site, which is a download to your device. Only a usage count naming the tool is reported when you press Generate.
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