Does anyone know of a good, simple invoice creating software that is cheap or free? A friend is starting a home business. It just needs to be one that will create an invoice that will add the totals for you; as opposed to one that just creates an invoice that you print and then fill in by hand. Ther are several programs on the net, but I don't know if they are any good or not.

Thanks.

Does he already have a copy of Excel?
Why not create a template in Excel?

If just starting out, it doesn't have to be fancy.
Lay it out in Excel and use it to auto calculate or sum cells.

Then just do a save-as and fill everything in and print it.
Maybe have another spreadsheet that just keeps track of invoices by number and sums up the total.

Later when money is rolling in, upgrade to something else.

Thanks Liquidsky;

They do have Excel; they don't know how to use it. But I may be able to help create one. Thanks for the suggestions.

Borrow a user guide from your local library and it should show you how to create formulas to sum up cells.
The rest is just layout and formatting, making the type look the way you want, and then gettting it to print without borders around every cell.

Once you've set up the template, they just plunk in the new invoice #, maybe the date and then costs in a column to add it all up.
Lock the template so they can't overwrite it, and have to do a save as to create a new invoice based on the template.

Thanks, that is a great solution!

-CR

Was going to suggest Excel, too. I am sure there are plenty of on-line resources and tutorials and compared to some programs, I've found the 'help' feature in excel to actuazlly be quite helpful.