Invoice template
An electrician invoice template that has the right fields on it
The invoice itself is the easy part. What catches electricians out is the certificate that has to go with it, and what happens to the numbers the first time you invoice a contractor instead of a homeowner.
The two carry different rules about the name on the invoice.
A VAT invoice has to show more, and show it separately.
Written onto the invoice, so the customer has a date rather than a hope.
The certificate is not the invoice
An EIC, a Minor Works certificate or an EICR is a separate document with its own legal weight, and the invoice does not replace it or prove it exists. What the invoice can do is carry the reference, so a customer looking at a bill two years later can find the certificate that went with it. If the job was notifiable, the building-control notification is a third thing again, and none of the three is evidence of the others.
Domestic work and contract work are invoiced differently
Invoicing a homeowner, this is an ordinary invoice. Invoicing a contractor who is registered for CIS, they will withhold 20% or 30% of the labour before they pay you, and if your labour and materials are not split into separate lines a cautious contractor will deduct from the whole lot. Splitting the invoice is the entire defence, and it costs one extra line.
The rest of it is the same for everyone
Whatever the trade, HMRC wants a unique invoice number that does not go backwards, your name and address, the customer's, a clear description of the work, the date it was done as well as the date of the invoice, and the total. The general invoice template covers those in full, and the quote template is the document that should have come before it.
Other trades
The next invoice can write itself.
Set it up yourself in minutes. No sales call, no card, no drip emails.
30 days free, then £25 a month. No card details to start.