Make an invoice, a receipt or an estimate: for work you did or a thing you sold

Before you hand it over

• Keep a copy for yourself. This page keeps none. Print two, save it as a PDF, or paste the text into a message to yourself.
• Read the numbers once. The page adds what you type; it cannot tell that 350 was meant to be 35.
• Think about what is on it. A name and a phone number or an email address is enough for someone to reach you. The paper does not need your home address, and this page has no box for a Social Security number or a bank account number.
• If someone pays more than the total and asks for the difference back, or wants a code sent to your phone, stop and open Is this a scam?

How the page counts

• In whole cents. Each line is how many times the price of one, to the nearest cent. Half a cent goes up: 1.5 of something at $33.33 is $49.995, which prints as $50.00.
• The percent is taken of the lines added together, once, to the nearest cent. 6.625% of $59.97 is $3.97.
• How many can have up to three places after the point (1.5 hours, 0.25 of a load), up to 9,999.999. Left empty, it counts as 1.
• The price of one can be up to $99,999.99. A minus sign in front takes money off.
• Commas: 1,234.50 is read as one thousand two hundred thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. A comma with one or two digits after it, as in 12,50, is read as 12.50.
• Already paid is taken off the total, and the paper shows what is left.

What you can change

• The kind: an invoice, a receipt or an estimate. Only the word at the top changes.
• The words printed on it: in English or in Spanish, whichever language you read this page in. What you type is printed as you typed it.
• The lines: up to 12 of them, each with up to 60 characters of words.
• The names: up to 60 characters each, with up to 4 short lines under each name.
• The number and the date: both can be left off.
• The words at the bottom: up to 200 characters on up to 4 lines.

What this page does not do

• It keeps nothing. What you typed is gone when you close or reload the page, and it does not remember the last number you used.
• It does not know about taxes: not whether you have to charge a sales tax, not the percent, and not what you owe on what you earn. For free help with a tax return, open Taxes: free help.
• It does not know the rules where you live about what a paper like this has to say, or about the kind of work you do.
• It does not send the paper to anyone and does not take payment.
• It does not make anyone pay. If you worked for an employer and were not paid, open When something is wrong at work.
• It has been tried in one browser’s print preview (Chromium, saved as PDF), not on paper from a real printer. If the paper does not fit your sheet, the print window’s Scale setting makes it smaller.

Every time the page is built, a program checks 14 examples worked by hand, then makes 2,000 made-up papers and reads each one back with a second reader written a different way, which multiplies and adds again on its own: every line, the percent, the total and what is left. That checks the page’s own work, not your paper.