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Clerk

Clerk — invoice template, Office, law and finance. Fill it in in your browser: totals, discount, tax and balance due are worked out. Free.

Paper and view

Ink colour for the document.

You

PNG, JPG, WebP or SVG, up to 400 KB. Drag it on the document to move it. It stays in this browser — nothing is uploaded.

Client

What you are charging for

Totals

What appears on the invoice

Switch a block off and it disappears from the document completely — no empty heading, no blank frame.

How to pay you

Nothing is switched on here, so nothing appears at the foot of the invoice.

INVOICE
Invoice number
Date
Due date
Bill to
DescriptionQty Unit priceAmount
Balance due
Why this one is different
  • It calculates. Line totals are rounded before they are added, the way bookkeeping does it — so the figure on the invoice is the figure that lands in the bank, with no rounding drift between them.
  • It knows tax can be inside the price, not only added to it. Templates written for one country get this wrong and quietly overcharge or undercharge everyone else.
  • The discount comes off before the tax is worked out, because that is the order that is actually correct.
  • The arithmetic is checked against a separate, independently written model before this page ships — and against a deliberate attempt to break it.

Clerk

Flat dark navy with one straight rule of gold leaf across it, and nothing else — the plainest band of the fifty, and the only one that is a single colour plus a single line. The document is set in monospace: the title, the number, the dates, every table cell and the total. Rows are zebra-tinted with a solid heading bar. Where blueprint uses the same face over a busy header, this one gives it a plain field, which suits a long schedule of small identical items.

Filing fees at the same price repeated many times — best layout?

One line per matter, or one line with the count as the quantity. Zebra rows keep thirty lines readable, and monospace keeps thirty amounts aligned on the decimal point.

Can the invoice carry a matter or case reference?

Put it in the description of the line it belongs to, or in the notes block if it covers the whole document. Both print; neither is compulsory.

When one invoice becomes a hundred

This page makes a document. The bookkeeping spreadsheet keeps the year: what you invoiced, what was paid, what is overdue, and what it all means at tax time — with the same verified arithmetic.

Small Business Bookkeeping Spreadsheet — $14.99

Questions people actually ask

Is anything I type sent to you?

No. The whole thing runs in your browser, including the logo. Your draft is kept in this browser's own storage so it survives a reload, and clearing it removes everything. We never see it and there is nothing to sign up for.

How do I get a PDF?

Press print and choose Save as PDF. Only the document prints — the editing panel disappears. Pick A4 or US Letter above so the margins are right for your country.

What is the difference between tax added to the prices and tax already in them?

If your prices exclude tax, the tax is added on top and the total goes up. If your prices already include it, the total does not change and the tax is separated out of it for the paperwork. Getting this backwards changes what your client owes, which is why it is a choice here rather than an assumption.

Can I issue a credit note?

Yes — put a negative quantity on the line you are reversing. The discount and the tax reverse with it, so a credit note and the invoice it cancels come to exactly zero together.

Why does the unit price allow four decimal places?

Because real prices have them: per litre, per kilometre, per unit. If a price is rounded to cents before being multiplied by a quantity, the line is wrong by more the larger the quantity gets.