What about invoices?

Do you guys send invoices to your clients? I would feel better requesting my job or service's fee by isuing an invoice to the client. I've never seen an invoice, so I don't know how it would look like, and what to include in it. I basically to send invoices to clients asking for advertising/designing/hosting fees. If i get the general idea of how an invoice is like, I can edit it to cater for other use such as designing and hosting.

Can anyone help? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Yang Do you guys send invoices to your clients? I would feel better requesting my job or service's fee by isuing an invoice to the client. I've never seen an invoice, so I don't know how it would look like, and what to include in it. I basically to send invoices to clients asking for advertising/designing/hosting fees. If i get the general idea of how an invoice is like, I can edit it to cater for other use such as designing and hosting. Can anyone help? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

It's basically a bill. Copy one of your own bills.

Here's one of my generic watered down invoices, my business ones are personalised with my logo and colours. Personalise this for yourself.

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Originally Posted by Julian Here's one of my generic watered down invoices, my business ones are personalised with my logo and colours. Personalise this for yourself.

Thanks!

i use blinksale, and i love it... cant say enough about it!

the free plan allows you to use your logo and one of their templates, pay $6/month (which i'm about to and going to pass that off to my clients anyway) and you can customize your invoices).. Absolutely brilliant service

www.blinksale.com

EDIT: And no, i dont work for firewheel design, unfortunately just a happy customer

i use http://www.easyinvoicing.co.uk/ not had a problem with it so far.

Hmm that blinksale site is nice, but they need options where you can generate a PDF on the fly to print out instead of e-mailing it to your clients.

Right now I use quickbooks because it can to some nifty things but for the most part it is entirely way too over complicated for what I need.

Still searching for the perfect solution..

There are client management programs out there (PHP scripts, CMS components, etc.) that can automatically keep track of your time on the project and provide a detailed invoice, or create a very simple one, and automatically e-mail it to your client.

Of course, you could just send them a paypal invoice? Nice and simple.

Originally Posted by Robson Of course, you could just send them a paypal invoice? Nice and simple.

True, but it's possible that the other party don't intend to pay you via PayPal

I think, especailly as far as web design / development is concerned, cheque/cash or bank transfer is probably the best method of payment. That is, of course, providing the client is reasonably local (within your country, at least).

I think it would be good practice to issue an invoice (and a receipt), yes. It always useful (for you and the other person/business) to have a paper based record of the transaction which has taken place - mostly for tax reasons, but it's certainly can't do any harm anyway.