Everything you need to launch your trade business.
Everything you need to launch your trade business.
Fill in your line items, add tax, and print a clean branded invoice or estimate in about a minute. No signup, no watermark.
Tip: in the print dialog choose “Save as PDF” to email it.
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Use this free invoice and estimate generator to build the document, but make sure these five things are always on it: your business name and contact info, a unique invoice number, the date and payment terms, itemized line items with quantities and rates, and the total with tax broken out. That’s what gets you paid without follow-up calls, and it’s what your bookkeeper (and the IRS) want to see at tax time.
Itemize more than feels necessary. “Plumbing work: $850” invites questions. “Replace 40-gal gas water heater: $650, haul away old unit: $75, new supply lines and pan: $125” gets paid same-day. Itemized invoices also protect your pricing when a customer compares you to the cheap guy, because they can see what they got.
An estimate is a priced offer: it says what you’ll do and what it will cost, and it should have an expiration (“valid for 30 days”) because material prices move. An invoice is a bill for work performed, with payment terms and a due date. Send the estimate before the job, get a yes in writing, then invoice against it. When an accepted estimate has scope, price, and signatures, it starts acting like a contract, so pair it with real terms; our landscaping contract template guide shows exactly what those terms should say.
Pick a numbering scheme on day one and never repeat a number. INV-1001 and up works fine (starting at 1001 instead of 1 makes you look established, and nobody has to know). Keep estimates on their own pre