Most of the business people know that invoice is an important part for customers. It will give more details of the transaction so that the customers can recall what they have done with their money. However, it is not a good idea if we do all invoices with our handwriting on a blank paper. It will spend our time and also not good for the future of our business. Because papers are often gone don’t know where and it will be a problem someday. So, it will be nice if we have simple blank invoice template and also printable invoices forms at the same time. This is because you may to give the customers the printed forms or send the invoice online from email. Some customers will ask you for both of them because some reasons, so you need to prepare it. In creating an invoice template for your business you need to consider several things to make a good invoice.

Simple Invoice Template

Looks / Appearance

Appearance is often considered as a reflection of your business. The invoice should be looked professional but also understandable for all customers. Don’t make such as complicated invoice which will confuse your customers. I ever had an invoice which I don’t know where is the place of quantity table because it looks too complex. Well, if you do creative business being different and unique is a good thing. However in creating the invoice you should not create a complex one. You also have to design the template simple that will ease you in tax processing and bookkeep purpose.

Make it standard

In business, there will be a standard in certain points. This standard is leading you and your competitor in building your and their business. What makes it standard is, you and your competitor must have these certain points in common.  In this invoice, the standard template must include basic elements that are needed. It is including your company logo, the address of your company and email and also other things that are needed to be put in the invoice. It will make the customers find your invoice more easily. Just for information that business people have a lot of invoices in their email or table. If your invoice is unique, it will make the customers find your company invoice faster. One thing for sure is, a good invoice template is the one which can ease the administrative duties.

Please remember that efficiency and professionalism are the basic tools to get a great job result. So the main benefit of creating invoice template makes the invoicing process faster without losing the efficiency and professionalism of your company

Printable Invoices Forms

The easiest way to make a printable invoices forms is find the examples then duplicate it. Well, to find the examples of invoice template is easy. The first one is ask for your friends do they have any invoice? If they have you can copy it and you just need to duplicate it. If you want to get more references, what you need to do is just browse it and you will find a lot of writers writing it for you. It is also available in various formats like word, pdf and also excels. Some websites will ask you to pay before you can download it. If you want to get it free just browse more and you will find some good free templates that are fit for your business.  However, if your company has already big or has a good financial condition. It is better for you to upgrade the quality of your company by buying those paid templates. Because the paid templates are often better and more trusted and the free ones. Paid templates are usually made by people who are experienced in it, meanwhile, the free template can be written by all internet users.

Selection process

Remember that there are so many templates on the internet. It means you need some comparison before you download and start using it. You need to look at least ten different templates before you decide which one is the most suitable for your business. It will not take your time so much, it may just take your 2 hours. Just relax and ask your colleagues for their opinion as well, it will help you.

Good bookkeeping

This is the problem that most newcomers get. You need to save all transactions from the customers. It is fine if you don’t list your own transaction with suppliers because the problem will be just your own problem. However, if you don’t save the transactions from the customers, you will meet difficulties if customers want to have one more invoice because they lost their past invoice for instance. That is what happen when I was a newcomer as well. Handle the transaction with a good system will make people trust you more, and if you can show the transaction easily just within a minute to the customers they will be very happy because of it.

Those are the things you need to consider in creating a good invoice template. If you find the old system by using blank paper is better then I would like to say “trust me, it will just take maximum two weeks before you realize that this system will help you a lot for your business future”.