What's in the file
- Your business and customer details blocks, ready to type over.
- Line items pre-filled with typical construction work charges — Labour, Materials: blocks, sand and cement, Skip hire and waste disposal.
- Quantity × rate formulas, a subtotal, a tax row you set to your own combined rate, and a total that updates itself.
- Payment terms and warranty wording written for general contractors.
Excel vs doing it here
A spreadsheet is ideal if you like seeing the math 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 tax math and the PDF for you, free and with no signup.
Open the general contractor invoice generatorCommon questions
- What is a schedule of values?
- A breakdown of the contract into phases with a dollar value each, so every draw invoices a percentage of defined work instead of a round number.
- How should change orders be billed?
- Numbered, dated, signed before the work, and invoiced as separate lines. Never absorb them into a draw.
- What is retainage?
- A percentage the owner holds back until completion. Show it as a line on every draw and invoice its release separately.
Make it in the browser instead
Fill in the job, download the PDF. Free, unlimited, no account. Already set up for construction work in US dollars.
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