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Create a professional invoice online, free — download the PDF in minutes
Fill in your business details, pick a template, and watch your invoice build itself in a live preview. When it looks right, download it as a PDF or print it directly. Your data stays in your browser unless you choose to generate a PDF.
Everything you need to bill clients, without the busywork
FreeOnlineInvoice.com handles the calculations, the formatting, and the layout — you just fill in the details.
Before you start, all you really need is what you'd need to write an invoice by hand: your business name and contact details, who you're billing, what you did or shipped and for how much, and how you want to get paid. Everything else — the invoice number, the formatting, the tax math, the layout — the tool handles for you.
Live preview as you type
Every field you fill updates the invoice preview instantly, so you always see exactly what your customer will receive.
50+ genuinely different templates
Minimal, corporate, creative, construction, medical, legal, and more — organized by category so you can find the right look fast.
Built for 65+ document types
From standard invoices to commercial invoices, credit notes, estimates, and receipts — the form adapts to the fields each type actually needs.
Accurate, rounding-safe totals
Discounts, multiple tax rates, shipping, deposits, and retainage are calculated with integer-safe math — no floating-point surprises.
Your data stays with you
Drafts are saved locally in your browser. Nothing is sent to our servers unless you click Download PDF.
No account required
Start building an invoice immediately. Save a draft locally if you want to come back to it later — no registration, ever.
How it works
1. Choose a type & template
Pick the invoice type that matches your work and a template from the gallery. You can change either at any time.
2. Fill in the details
Add your business and customer information, line items, taxes, and payment instructions in a guided, tabbed editor.
3. Download or print
Export a clean, print-ready PDF, or print directly from your browser. Save a draft locally to finish later.
None of these steps require you to wait on a server round-trip to see the result. The editor is organized into tabs — business details, customer details, line items, taxes & totals, payment & notes, and design — so a long, detailed invoice never turns into one overwhelming form. Jump between tabs freely; nothing is lost, and the live preview stays in sync no matter which tab you're on. When you're happy with it, "Download PDF" sends your current data to the server just long enough to render a file and stream it back — there's no intermediate "processing" queue and no email required to receive your download.
A layout for every kind of business
Every template is a genuinely different design, not one layout with a color picker — browse the full gallery or jump straight into a few favorites below.
Made for how billing actually varies
A construction work order and a legal retainer invoice don't need the same fields — so the editor doesn't force them into one.
Commercial invoices
Built-in HS code, country of origin, and weight fields for customs documentation on international shipments.
Freelance & hourly work
Time-entry line items, deposits, and clean templates built for independent professionals.
Receipts
Payment, rent, and donation receipts with the fields specific to confirming a payment already made.
Estimates & quotes
Give a client a clear, itemized quote before work begins, using the same accurate calculations as a real invoice.
Trade & service work
Work orders, milestone billing, and per-trade templates for construction, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and repair invoices.
Medical, legal & professional
Calm, clinical templates for medical and dental billing, and formal layouts for legal and accounting invoices.
65+ document types, grouped by how you actually work
Pick your invoice type from the editor and the field set adapts — no digging through settings to hide fields you don't need.
- General billing: standard invoice, sales invoice, tax/VAT/GST invoice, past-due notice.
- Freelance & consulting: freelance invoice, hourly invoice, fixed-price invoice, consulting invoice, self-employed invoice, retainer invoice.
- Project & phased billing: milestone invoice, progress invoice, interim invoice, final invoice, recurring invoice, deposit invoice.
- Trade & field service: construction invoice, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, landscaping, cleaning, general repair, auto repair, and mechanic invoices, plus work-order and timesheet documents.
- Professional & specialist: medical, dental, legal, and accounting invoices.
- Creative & digital: photography, graphic design, web design, and software development invoices.
- Marketing & agency: marketing and advertising invoices.
- Property & hospitality: rental, property management, real estate, hotel, and catering invoices.
- Logistics & delivery: delivery, transportation, and logistics invoices, plus delivery notes.
- Retail & wholesale: wholesale, retail, purchase, and sales invoices, plus cash memos and purchase orders.
- International trade: commercial, proforma, export, and import invoices with full customs field support.
- Adjustments & receipts: credit notes, debit notes, estimates, and payment, rent, and donation receipts.
If your exact situation doesn't map neatly onto one of these, the standard invoice type covers general-purpose billing with sensible defaults, and you can always add a custom field for anything specific to your business.
Spreadsheet, full accounting software, or this?
A Word or Excel invoice template is fine for a one-off, but it doesn't check your math, doesn't adapt its fields to different document types, and starts looking dated the moment you need something beyond basic formatting — you're also usually copying the same template file around and manually renaming it each time. Full accounting software (the kind that also handles bookkeeping, payment processing, and client management) is the right call once your business has outgrown ad hoc invoicing, but it's a heavier commitment — an account, a learning curve, often a monthly fee — for a task that's sometimes just "I need to bill one client today."
FreeOnlineInvoice.com sits in between: real calculation logic and real template variety, without asking you to adopt a whole platform to get it. If you eventually need full accounting software, this isn't a replacement for that — but for the everyday task of producing a correct, good-looking invoice, it's built to be all you need.
Built to be trustworthy with your data
Beyond keeping your invoice content in your browser (see below), the Service is built with a few concrete security practices: form submissions are protected against cross-site request forgery, requests are rate-limited to prevent abuse, and there are no third-party advertising or cross-site tracking scripts on this site. We don't sell data, because we don't collect the data there would be anything to sell — see our Cookie Policy for the short, complete list of what little we do store.
Math you don't have to double-check
Every calculation on the invoice — line-item subtotals, per-line and global discounts, multiple named tax rates (compound or not), shipping, and deposits — runs through integer-safe arithmetic on the smallest currency unit, not floating-point dollars. That means a long invoice with dozens of taxed line items adds up exactly right, every time, instead of drifting a cent off from rounding errors the way spreadsheet formulas sometimes do.
You can add as many named tax rates as your situation requires, mark any of them as compound (calculated on top of another tax, as some jurisdictions require), and apply discounts per line item or globally across the whole invoice. Want the mechanics explained in plain terms? Read our guide to calculating sales tax on an invoice.
Your data stays with you
There's no account system, no server-side database of your invoices, and nothing tracking what you bill your customers. Everything you type into the editor is held in your browser, and — if you use the "Save Draft" feature — written to your browser's local storage on your own device, not ours.
Your data is only sent to our server for the moment it takes to render the live preview or generate a downloadable PDF. Once that request completes, nothing about your invoice is retained. Full details are in our Privacy Policy.
Handles the messy real-world cases too
Long, multi-page invoices
A 40-line-item invoice paginates correctly across multiple pages, with consistent margins, headers, and totals — not a layout that only works for a one-page demo.
Logos and brand colors
Upload your logo and set an accent color once; most templates apply it consistently to headers, totals, and highlights.
Multiple currencies
Choose the currency for the invoice and amounts are formatted with the correct symbol and decimal convention automatically.
Who uses FreeOnlineInvoice.com
Different work, same need: a correct, professional-looking document, fast.
Freelancers & consultants
Bill hourly or by project, track deposits against a final balance, and send something that looks like it came from an established business — because looking established is part of getting paid on time.
Small business owners
Skip the monthly subscription for basic billing. Fill in a sales or standard invoice, apply the right tax rate, and get a PDF out the door without opening a full accounting suite.
Trades & field service
Work orders, job-site details, and per-trade templates for construction, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and repair work — built for billing after the job, not just quoting before it.
Agencies & creative studios
Milestone and progress billing for phased projects, plus templates with enough visual personality to match a design-forward brand instead of looking like default office software.
Importers & exporters
Commercial invoices with HS code, country of origin, and weight fields built in, for shipments that need to clear customs without a documentation delay.
Nonprofits & landlords
Donation receipts and rent receipts with the specific fields each needs — a donor acknowledgment isn't the same document as a payment confirmation, and the editor treats them that way.
Why it's free
Most invoicing tools bundle document generation with a much larger product — accounting software, payment processing, client management — and gate the simple act of "make me a PDF invoice" behind a signup, a trial, or a subscription. FreeOnlineInvoice.com is built to solve that specific problem well, without requiring you to adopt a whole platform for it.
Running the Service costs real money — hosting, PDF rendering, bandwidth — and we're upfront that we may introduce optional paid features down the line to help cover that. Any functionality that's free today, as described on this site, stays free; we won't lock features you were already using for free behind a paywall later. Read more on our About page.
Guides, if you want more than a blank form
Practical, no-fluff answers to the questions that actually come up when you're billing someone.
Common questions
Do I need to create an account?
No. Open the editor and start filling in your invoice immediately — no registration, ever.
Is it really free?
Yes. Creating, previewing, and downloading invoices as PDF is free, with no signup and no credit card required.
Where is my data stored?
In your browser, unless you click Download PDF — see our Privacy Policy for the exact mechanics.
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