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Invoice generator
Invoice, quote or receipt as a PDF — no account, no watermark. Your files never leave your device.
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The invoice is the bait
Search for a free invoice generator and almost every result will let you fill the whole form in, then ask you to create an account before it hands over the PDF. The invoice is not the product — your email address is, and the sunk cost of ten minutes of typing is what makes you hand it over.
There is no account here, no watermark on the output and no limit on how many you make. The form is the tool, the button is the download.
Money that adds up
Every amount is held as a whole number of minor units — cents, pence, sen — never as a decimal. This is not fussiness: 0.1 + 0.2 in floating point is 0.30000000000000004, and a line total computed that way can be a cent out. On an invoice that is not a rounding curiosity, it is a document that does not reconcile and gets sent back.
Tax is rounded per line rather than on the grand total, which is the rule in the EU, the UK and most of Asia-Pacific. A percentage discount is spread across the lines in proportion, and the remainder from that division is put on the largest line so the discount total is exact. Whatever the PDF prints, the numbers reconcile.
And the currency you actually bill in
Japanese yen has no subunit; Kuwaiti, Bahraini and Omani dinars have three. A tool that hard-codes two decimal places misstates those by a factor of a hundred or a thousand. The precision here comes from the currency itself, and typed amounts are parsed the way people write them — 1,234.56, 1 234,56 and €12.50 all mean the same thing.
Not an invoice, exactly?
The same form makes all three documents, but each has its own page with the rules that apply to it. Quote generator drops the due date, because a quote is an offer rather than a demand for payment. Receipt maker records money already taken. VAT invoice generator covers the fields a VAT invoice has to carry and the per-rate breakdown a return asks for.
Not sure whether your prices already contain tax? That one choice changes the total by the full rate — how to tell which you have walks through both directions of the arithmetic.
After you have the PDF
Need it under an email attachment limit? Compress PDF shrinks it without turning the text into pictures. Sending a batch to an accountant? Organize PDF merges them into one file. Sharing an invoice that mentions a rate you would rather not disclose? Redact PDF removes the figure from the file instead of covering it up.
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Frequently asked questions
- Do I have to create an account?
- No. There is no sign-up, no email wall and no watermark. Fill the form in, press the button, and the PDF downloads. Most free invoice sites make you register before you can download, because the invoice is the bait and your email address is the product.
- Is my client's data uploaded anywhere?
- No. Your files never leave your device An invoice carries your client's name, address and often their tax number, plus your own bank details in the notes — that is exactly the sort of thing that should not be sitting on someone else's server. The PDF is built inside your browser tab.
- How is the tax calculated?
- Per line, and rounded per line — which is the rule in the EU, the UK and most of APAC, and the usual source of one-cent disputes. You can set a different rate on each line, and choose whether tax is added to your prices or already included in them. The totals are then broken down by rate, which is what a VAT or GST return actually asks for.
- Will the amounts ever be a cent out?
- No. Every figure is held as a whole number of cents, pence or sen rather than as a decimal, because 0.1 + 0.2 in floating point is 0.30000000000000004 and an invoice that does not add up gets rejected by an accounts department. Rounding happens exactly once per line, at the points a tax authority expects.
- Does it handle currencies without cents?
- Yes. Japanese yen has no subunit and Kuwaiti dinar has three, so a tool that assumes two decimal places misstates those amounts by a factor of a hundred or a thousand. The precision comes from the currency itself, and the tool tells you when the one you picked has no subunit.
- Can I make a quote or a receipt instead?
- Yes — the same form produces all three. A quote drops the due date, since nothing is owed yet; a receipt records what was already paid. Everything else, including the tax breakdown, works identically.
- Can I add my logo and brand colour?
- Yes. Add a PNG or JPEG logo and pick an accent colour, and both appear on the PDF. The logo is read on your device like everything else and is not uploaded.
- What if my invoice runs to more than one page?
- Line items continue onto the next page with the column headings repeated, and pages are numbered. The totals block is never split across a page break — a subtotal on one page and a total on the next is how people end up paying the wrong amount.