Girder bar
Girder bar — invoice template, Trades and construction. 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.
| Description | Qty | Unit price | Amount |
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Signature
- 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.
Girder bar
A white field with four hard blades cutting up to the right — brushed steel, navy, taupe and a wide amber panel. No texture, no gradient, no ornament: it is the most engineered band in the set, and the whole left half is empty, which is where a company mark goes. Zebra rows below make a long schedule of items readable line by line, and the total sits in a full-width gradient bar. The typography is the plain sans setting, deliberately.
How do I bill a variation on top of the original quote?
A separate line, described as a variation, with its own quantity and rate. The subtotal shows both, and the client can see exactly what changed rather than being handed a new grand total.
Is there a limit on how many lines I can add?
Five hundred. That is far beyond a real invoice and exists to keep the page and the printed sheet sane; past it you are describing a schedule that belongs in its own attachment.
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 — $14.99Questions 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.
