What's in the file
- Your business and customer details blocks, ready to type over.
- Line items pre-filled with typical carpentry and joinery work charges — Joinery labour (per day), Timber and sheet materials, Ironmongery: hinges, handles and fixings.
- Quantity × rate formulas, a subtotal, a VAT row you can set to 0 if you're not registered, and a total that updates itself.
- Payment terms and guarantee wording written for carpenters.
Excel vs doing it here
A spreadsheet is ideal if you like seeing the maths and want to keep a running log of jobs. The trade-off is that spreadsheets email badly — customers should still get a PDF. The generator on this site does the numbering, the VAT and the PDF for you, free and with no sign-up.
Open the carpenter invoice generatorCommon questions
- Should a carpenter charge per day or per item?
- Per item for repeatable work such as hanging doors, and per day for fitting that depends on how square the building is. Many invoices sensibly contain both.
- How do I invoice for bespoke joinery made off site?
- Show workshop manufacture as its own line separate from on-site fitting, and take a deposit that covers your materials before cutting starts.
- Who pays for ironmongery the customer chose?
- Whoever supplied it. If you bought it, invoice it as its own line at the price you are charging; if they supplied it, note that on the invoice.
Make it in the browser instead
Fill in the job, download the PDF. Free, unlimited, no account and no watermark on Pro. Already set up for carpentry and joinery work.
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