Download free templates in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, or make custom professional business invoices for free in less than 30 seconds with InvoiceOcean. With both options, you can easily add your company details, the details of your customers, due date for payment, products or services, and customize them with your logo. Then, you can easily print your invoice out, send it to your clients, and get paid straight away.
Microsoft Word format is easy to use and can make a slick and professional invoice your clients will love.
Customize your invoice template and send it to your client with just a few clicks. Get paid x2 faster than with a traditional templates thanks to automatic reminders.
This invoice templates is for you if you want to save everything online and access your documents from any place in the world.
Customizable and easy to use formulas that make calculations automatically are the key reason to choose this invoice template.
One of the main advantage of PDF invoice is that it can be viewed on any computer. PDF format is considered the best for sending invoices.
Similar to Word invoices, with Google Sheets, you can access your invoices from anywhere in the world, on any device.
Whichever suits your needs better! In InvoiceOcean, we have prepared a set of free downloadable billing documents for you to choose from, quickly download, fill out, and send to a client. You can create your invoice in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Excel, Google Sheets, PDF. If you want to use more professional and customizable templates, test out InvoiceOcean invoicing tool with templates for free!
Depending on what business you are in, you might be looking for something that would be more customized to your industry.
It makes sense to customize using different styles – for example, if you create an invoice for a legal firm,
you would go with more conservative colors on professionally designed templates (the combination of grey and black).
However, keep in mind that the invoice requirements are the same for every business industry, no matter if you are a painter or a business consultant –
so feel free to choose any template you like and customize it to your needs.
There only several invoice types that most businesses would use to send to their customers:
While some businesses still prefer sending invoices by snail mail, it is much more convenient to send invoices to clients by emails. If you decide to use a simple invoicing software, you can send an invoice to a pre-recorded client email straight from the dashboard of your invoicing tool. The good thing about using an invoicing tool for sending digital invoices is that you can easily schedule an automatic reminder 1, 2,3,5,10 days after your customer has passed a payment deadlines.
Here are a few important elements every professional invoice should contain:
1. Include the name of the document "Invoice"
2. Use consistent numbering – come up with your own structure such as INV/1/10/21
3. Add a date when invoice is issued
4. List out your line items – products and services (don't forget to add quantity unit – lb., pc, unit, kg, days, months etc.)
5. Add unit net price
6. Add due date for an invoice to be paid
7. Add VAT tax rate if it applies (for example, for the EU countries)
8. Mention payment type (Credit card, cash, PayPal, check). Consider adding fast payments if you want to get paid faster.
9. Purchase order (PO) number – if applicable
10. Customization options such as logo or signature
You might prefer to create and send business invoices in various formats –PDF, Microsoft Word, or Excel. They are free invoice templates that are easy to use. However, these days, you can also choose a more convenient and faster option of generating an invoice with which you can get paid faster. A good alternative to downloadable invoice templates is invoicing software. Some of them like InvoiceOcean have a free version including a number of free professional templates. A benefit of using InvoiceOcean is a simple integration with PayPal, Stripe, and Braintree that will help getting paid faster. Start using free invoice templates in InvoiceOcean.
Some invoicing tools help you create invoices in different languages (not only in English). They also make it possible to have two languages on your invoice template. You only have to input the information on the invoice once and after choosing the other language, your invoicing document is then automatically translated. For example, with InvoiceOcean you can access free business templates in over 30+ languages and create multiple variations of two languages – Georgian and Polish or Swedish and English, and many more.
With InvoiceOcean, you implement these quick tips that will help you get paid faster.