What does a Professional Invoice Template look like to You?

One thing we understand is that, for many small businesses, the look and feel of the invoice is very important.  Let’s face it - sometimes we do judge a book by its cover.  An invoice can tell a bit about your company - are you expensive and fancy?  Serious and formal?  A little funky?  Whatever it is, pretty much everyone we meet wants to ensure their invoice reflects an ‘air of legitimacy’ - one thing the invoice should say is “hey, my business is real - take me seriously!”.  You might be working from the kitchen table, but your customers don’t need to know.  You want to look professional.

But, what does Professional mean to you?  Pictures are worth a thousand words indeed.  We’ve spent a lot of time with small businesses looking at their invoices and understanding their “invoice journey”.  Did they start with a logo?  A word template?  An invoice from somebody else?  Do they like their invoice?  Why?

Today, in Billing Manager, we offer a choice from 5 professional invoice templates (professional? at least we think so, and hope you do too) plus you can add your own logo to the template.  But is that good enough?  I doubt it.  But it’s a start.

 As you can see below from the 3 examples - the differences are subtle - yet each has a distinct style and feel.

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Logo is in a different place on this one -

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Perhaps, the most ‘traditional’ looking invoice of all?

professional_invoice_template_1.png

So, what next?  What are the features that you would need to be able to create a professional invoice using Billing Manager?  Would you want to…

  • Choose the columns that appear on the invoice?
  • Choose the font?
  • Choose the font sizes?
  • Choose the font colors?
  • Manipulate the layout?
  • Choose to hide some of the data from the invoice?
  • Change the size or placement of your logo?
  • Preview your customized invoice after each change?

What else would you want to do?

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5 Comments on “What does a Professional Invoice Template look like to You?”

  1. nannyc Says:

    Need the ability to do the following:
    Choose the columns that appear on the invoice
    Manipulate the layout
    Choose to hide some of the data from the invoice
    Preview your customized invoice after each change

  2. hkirkby Says:

    nannyc: Thanks for the feedback. The team has definitely considered this type of stuff. What’s the most important of the things on your list? Which ones make our invoices un-usable to you? All of them? Some of them? We did add a preview button when you’re in Edit mode so hope that helps. Are things like changing the fonts and font sizes important to you?

    Heather

  3. Rebecca Says:

    I really really need to be able to add a Purchase Order field so I can input that data for my customers as their reference. I almost can’t believe this isn’t standard on here already. HELP! A column we can customize would be great too. (Country of Origin etc.)

    Another option I would love is the ability to change font size and more layout options.

  4. Keyvan Rahmatian Says:

    Rebecca, Thanks for the feedback. We hear you loud and clear on the purchase order request. One work around I’d suggest for now is to use the Invoice Notes field to put in the number there. It’s not a perfect solution but one that will hopefully work.

    Keyvan

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