Invoice Generator Template

If you need to make an invoice and don’t want to spend money on some overpriced software, you can do so easily in Excel with this template. Not only can you customize it to how you want it to look and feel and produce a professional-looking invoice, but you can also track items, set prices based on customers and even have taxes calculated based on location codes.

Ultimately, it’s up to you how complex or simple you want it to be. Here’s how the template works:

The invoice itself

Whether you want to add a logo, change the colors or add some information to the headers, you can have a lot of control over how your invoice looks. The key thing to remember here, however, is not to add or remove any columns or rows. If you need extra space, stretch out the rows or columns, but don’t add any new ones.

And if you need to move the invoice date and number fields, be sure to move them, not delete them or copy and paste. They’re named ranges and so it is important that they remain intact for the code to still work.

Setting up the invoice template

Before you get started and using the template, what you’ll want to do is to set up some items, customers, locations and rates. Unless you really want to start from scratch every time, which I wouldn’t recommend.

First up, start with the Locations tab. If you’re only selling to one part of the world, then just set up a generic location but you can add as many different ones as you need. This is key for ensuring that the correct tax amount is being calculated per customer.

Next up, go to the Customer tab where you’ll have a list of your different customers, including their addresses and location codes. It’s important to add the location codes first because on the customer tabs the locations are drop-down selections that are derived from the locations tab, this ensures that you only select from a location code that has already been created. This is important to ensure that you aren’t mapping to a location that hasn’t been set up, otherwise, you’ll get an error.

Set up all the customers you need. Then next, move over to the Rate tab. Here, you’ll want to set up your customers from columns F onward. On this tab, you will also create your different items and differentiate between products and services. You can create as many items as you want. There is a rate field (column D) when you specify your default rate.

In the columns for your different customers, you can specify a special rate per customer. For example, in the above example, ITEM-1 has a default price of $50. However, if Company A is selected as a customer, a rate of $25 will be applied. If Company B or C is selected, the default rate of $50 will apply since no special pricing has been made available for those customers.

Putting it all together – creating an invoice using the template

With all that set up, now you can go back to the invoice tab to create your own invoice.

First, start with selecting your customer under the Bill To section. Enter the invoice date and invoice number.

Then, it’s a matter of selecting the items in column D, the date in column E and Quantity in column F (if it’s a service item, the quantity won’t matter, a value of 1 will be assumed). The remaining fields should auto-populate. You can edit everything that is in yellow. Anything not in yellow means that it you should NOT modify it (Note: the actual template will not show this highlighting):

Once everything is good to go, you can click on the Generate Invoice button.

This will do two things:

1. Create a PDF of the invoice you just created and save it to the location specified, and
2. It will also add the invoice to the Invoice.List tab. This creates a ledger for you to track all the invoices that have been created. If an invoice number is already on there, it will not allow you to create a duplicate. It’s important that you do not delete the invoice number field if you’re changing the template around.

The Invoice.List tab will log all the relevant data from the invoice. This includes the number, date, when it was saved and by who, which folder, and even individual item sales.

Disclaimer

The goal of this template is to allow you to generate invoices as accurately as possible. It also helps you track all your invoices. However, it’s by no means a perfect solution as you could conceivably alter the data in the Invoice.List tab after the fact. What I’d recommend is password protecting the file or hiding the tab if it will be used by multiple users.

So if you choose to use this file, it’s just important to keep that in mind. By adding too many controls and preventing people from deleting or correcting items, it may end up being too much of a hassle. This template isn’t a substitute for accounting software and it’s intended to create and track invoices.

Please note it’s up to you to ensure that your invoice is accurate and correct. You should always double-check an invoice before sending it out.

Download

The invoice template is free to use although there is a limitation of 3 items per invoice. It will also have an ad in the ribbon. The full version is available here. It will remove the limitations, advertising, and the code for the VBA will be unlocked as well.

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