Templates
Invoice templates, by the kind of work you do
Not a folder of Word files. Each of these sets out what belongs on that kind of invoice, how the lines are usually worded, and what causes the arguments — then hands you a free tool to make the document.
A template is a set of decisions, not a file
Search for an invoice template and you get a Word document with “Company Name Here” in the corner. The layout was never the hard part. The hard part is knowing that a cleaning invoice needs the property address on it, that a handyman invoice falls apart when labor and parts share a line, and that a photography invoice has to show money the client already handed over.
So these pages are the decisions. Each one covers the fields that matter for that kind of work, how the lines are normally worded, a filled-in example with real numbers, and the specific places where invoices for that trade get queried. Then you can make the document in the free invoice generator — it does the arithmetic, applies the tax and the deposit, and hands you a PDF with no watermark on it.
Pick the one that matches your work
Each is written for how that trade actually bills, so take the closest one rather than the most general. If you are quoting rather than billing, what goes on an estimate covers the document that comes first.
Trade work
- CleaningWhich property, which visits, and what the price covered. The fields a cleaning invoice needs and the wording that stops the questions.
- HandymanThe three-part shape every handyman invoice takes, the wording for parts you bought, and where the arguments start.
- ContractorBilling a stage rather than a job: the contract reference, the percentage complete, the deposit already held and the changes since.
- PlumbingThe reported fault, what you found, what you fitted, and the work you flagged but did not do. Wording and a worked example.
- ElectricalFault-finding written as time, installation counted room by room, and the paperwork the invoice points at rather than replaces.
- LandscapingWhich property, which dates, what the visit price covers, and what left the site. The layout for an invoice that stands for a whole period.
- PaintingThe room-by-room schedule carried over from the quote, the paint actually used, the deposit already taken, and the changes agreed on the way.
Where a template stops being enough
A template is fine for the first invoice and the fifth. The trouble starts at the fiftieth, because a template has no memory: every time you use one you retype the customer, retype your usual prices, and pick the next number yourself — which is how two invoices end up sharing one. If you have ever emailed a PDF called invoice-final-2.pdf, that is the failure mode.
Invoice Tiger is the same document with the retyping removed. It keeps your customers and your usual line items on your iPhone, gives invoices and estimates their own running number sequences, and shares the finished PDF through whatever you already use to talk to that customer. It does not do bookkeeping and it never touches the money — the payment instructions on the document are your own.
If you want to see the argument by trade rather than by document, the invoice app pages cover how each kind of work bills. If you want the invoicing fundamentals underneath all of this — numbering, payment terms, what a complete invoice contains — start with the invoicing guides. And if you are on a phone right now, how to make an invoice on your iPhone covers every realistic way to do it.
Same document, without the retyping
Invoice Tiger keeps your customers, your usual prices and every invoice you have sent on your iPhone — so the next one is a few taps rather than a blank form.