Invoice Printing

JamesNLA

Who do you all use for your invoice printing?

Looking for 2 ply carbonless invoices that I can upload my artwork to.

Looking to do this online, any suggestions?

Thx

Ed the Roofer

Nebbs has that option available. I get their business forms marketing package frequently, but have never used them. I used to get some good ideas from their sample forms though.

Question; Why don't you just print out 2 or more copies as needed right from your accounting software package?

Ed

JamesNLA

The majority of my invoicing is TnM, those get written up in the feild after the job is complete. I don't give terms to clients and only bill my best customers, otherwise they gotta pay up right there.

My larger jobs usually consist of a written invoice and I print a copy of my excel (.xls) file to give an exploded price detail. Doing it this way I can do my 1/3's with current payments made and owed. Also change orders which I use a cheep blanket invoice pad from staples, I send a carbon copy of that so they can see their own signature and what was done to add to the costs. I want to stream line my process to cut down on paperwork , however aside from printing in the feild I don't know any better way to do it.

My first plumbing boss used to make me go to the GC's houses sometimes to wait for a payment owed. LOL, I think I was 18 and didn't know any better. By the time I left that company he wouldn't finish the job until he had a check. So I kinda adopted that thinking of get the money sooner rather than later. AND I like to get paid sooner so I can pay back my supply houses' accounts. I don't like making them wait 30 days to get money that I already have.

I'm still evolving on the whole financial aspects to this business. So far it's been working, I only have one customer who still owes me about 200 bucks but that was from about 3 years ago. And it's always the multi-millioniar's that hate to pay.......

Thx

mdshunk

James... I'd say you have a good policy.

My "on the spot" forms are from NEBS. They're the only game in town, near as I can tell.

Keep up the good work!

Danahy

I created blank invoices from with QB's..

simple; Create new invoice from your existing, edit the format, and delete the boxes with your totals, label it blank invoice.

I keep a couple in the truck for such occasions as they occur.

However, you're using excel, you could do the same for consistantcy, or purchase a pad from Nebs.

Boogga

I use excel with all the logo's etc. Works well for us.

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JamesNLA

I do like excell, I have spent years learning it, and when I try my layouts comeout nice. I just want a decent form to make it easy for me and my clients to read. I did look at the nebs forms and the 2 part (245-2-2) looks nice, kinda pricey but I guess ya gotta spend money to make money!