How to Create an Automated Invoice in Excel | Including Formulas and Customer Database
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This tutorial is part of a series of tutorials that demonstrate how to create an automated invoice system in Microsoft Excel. This video looks at how to create the invoice itself including formatting, formula and a customer database.
***FIX: There is a school-boy error in the VAT calculation in this video, where the quantity is not included -apologies. I have corrected this in the download.***
Other videos in this series show you how to write VBA macros that
1) Automatically generate the next invoice number
2) Add the invoice details to a record of invoices
3) Save the invoice as an Excel workbook or as a PDF
4) Automatically email a PDF version of the invoice to the customer
Table of Contents:
00:00 - Introduction
01:32 - Starting the invoice
01:40 - Margins and page size
02:42 - Invoice headings
04:30 - Invoice number, date etc
05:48 - Company logo area
06:19 - Customer address area
07:07 - Invoice billed items area
08:51 - Customer message area
09:30 - Subtotals and totals area
10:21 - Payment details and company details area
12:11 - Drop-down list for invoice terms
12:41 - Invoice date
12:53 - Customer address and customer database, including customer drop-down list
18:38 - Billed items area - formulas
20:42 - Subtotals and total formulas
22:08 - Inserting a company logo
22:36 - Exporting the invoice as a pdf
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I want to leave a really huge thank you on this video. I know what it’s like to make videos for a small audience and get not very many views. I just wanted to say after getting wrongfully terminated from my job and not having enough money for a lawyer I was looking for a new job. I finally found one a month later and managed to impress my new employer by automating their invoice system to spreadsheets with this series and save them thousands on paper and ink they would typically have to mail out each day. Thank you so much for helping me and so many others.
@saitoglobal8830
Жыл бұрын
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I searched the internet high and low for the perfect way to set up invoices and receivables all while maintaining a customer database- and I am so glad that I stumbled upon this video! Fantastic explanation and narrating. Thank you for posting such a miraculous invention! I've been using this file for my small business, with some adaptations, and it works WONDERFULLY.
This is probably one of the best tutorials in the world🙌🏾 the guidance in these series is absolutely phenomenal and easy to follow along. Thank you very much for gifting us with this wonderful automated invoicing system ❤ it definitely will make it easy for my business!!
@ChesterTugwell
6 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Great series sir! I almost purchased an invoicing system for my business, but my girlfriend insisted I do some research and create my own. I found this series and all she's been saying is "I told you so!" LOL. A few tweaks and scripts to get it running on my Mac, but I now have a perfect invoicing system for my business! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
@preppy_767
Ай бұрын
Hi Carl, would you mind to share your tweaks to get this to work on MAC OS? Thanks!
I'm a writer and really only know how to work in Word .... this is the first time I've ever felt I understood excel. What an absolutely marvellous tutorial, many thanks!
Finished following all six videos. Going to go through all again to polish off.. Absolutely brilliant. Thank you Chester.
This is really awesome. Not only have you put a lot of work into this, but its downloadable. You have saved me time and money and I thank you for that
THANK YOU< Chester! Super helpful. I spent the entire day working on an invoice with customer list and item list dropdowns. This was unfamiliar territory and I could not have accomplished this without this most excellent tutorial. Thank you!
You've gained a new subscriber! I am new to Excel and am intrigued and overwhelmed with all the possibilities and project ideas. Your calm demeanor and clear instructions make this project easy to understand and follow. Thank you!
Thank you for this video! I will watch more of your other videos to refresh my skills and knowledge in Excel. I learned all these in College but have forgotten most of them especially the macros, formulas, etc. Super thankful I found this video because this is exactly what I need for my business now. Who knew right? That almost 20 years down the line we'd find ourselves still using Excel for data entry, record keeping, etc. I thought before, in 20 years I'm sure what I'm learning now would be useless because technology would be so advanced by that time but...I find myself here now watching this video. 😄
THANK YOU SO MUCH! This is *exactly* what I need! I cannot tell you how many zillions of hours and $$ you have saved me. I can now ditch the $600/year quickbooks subscription and build my own. Your video descriptions are incredibly clear and educational. I was able to expand your system to include time tracking and create more buttons to generate the invoice from a log of services rendered for each client. I really cannot thank you enough for this wonderful resource and excellently delivered content.
@ChesterTugwell
4 ай бұрын
That's great to hear. 👍
Mr. Chester, with your help I now have a fully built invoicing system from automated invoices to generation of account statements. Thank you, you are a great teacher!❤
Thank you so much for taking your time to share this and educate us. I almost bought an invoicing system but my partner told me to Google this for my business and it's exactly what I was looking for. You've saved me monthly subscriptions . Many thanks to you.
This video is amazing, very clear and easy to follow. I am starting my new small business and can't afford much to start with. Thank you to your series of videos Chester, I was able to create an invoice to get myself going. I am very thankful I have come across your videos and you certainly have been a life saver. Not only that, you have educated me on how to use excel and the many uses it has. I am sure you have only scratched the surface on what excel can really do. I don't post comments very often but truly thank you for your videos and I also look forward to learning more from you. Truly amazing!!!!
@ChesterTugwell
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Matt - I appreciate your comment
Hi Chester, You have made auto invoicing a very, "less stressful" experience. Thank you so much!😃
The contribution is very detailed and instructive. Great praise for your patience and willingness to share your knowledge with others. I am grateful that there is someone willing to do this. You enabled others to speed up their work and give them a great incentive to achieve their goals
Huge Thankyou Chester! After 20 yrs of QBooks and a few upgrades Im forced to their subscription service with my appx 100 invoices a year. Went through all 6 videos and was able to modify to get a solution that works for me. As a non Excel user, I was able to build your basic KEEL to get the process started. Now Im back up and running a simple invoicing database. Thankyou for not wasting my time, sticking to the point and really helping!!!! Goodbye QB
@ChesterTugwell
3 ай бұрын
Welcome
I have just used this tutorial and found it excellent. Just the right speed to work along and an excellent level of detail.
This is awesome! My dad has been using a TYPEWRITER to send out invoices! I will be taking over the company next year and with this I can a move us into the 21st century.
This is EXACTLY what I needed for my business. Thank you so much!
This was superb! Apart from a very basic knowledge I am not at all adept at Excel. However, thanks to your extremely simple and clear instructions, creating my Invoice was a piece of cake. Thank you so much! Now I'm tempted to move on to try and get the macros... biting off more than I can chew maybe?... ah well, nothing ventured nothing gained! LOL!!
Simply wonderful and clear teaching. This video is a game changer for me when it comes to using excel. Looking forward to viewing more of your videos
This is one of the best presentations on how to use Microsoft excel I have seen , I have known for a long time that Exel can do many things but didn't know where to start. Chester explains things brilliantly , I got the invoice and macros working because thanx to Chester I understood what I was doing. Thank you very much for your professional contribution.
@ChesterTugwell
Жыл бұрын
Nicholas - thanks for your generous comment.
This is so useful! I would definitely need this skill in my next job. It took me a while to grasp, but I am satisfied with my overall result. I have been trying out things whilst you were explaining. You are a star!
@ChesterTugwell
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
You, Sir, are a star. You have really been a great help. In two videos, I have found the answers to all I needed for automating my invoice.
I'm only 3 mins in the video and I'm already thanking you! Thank you!
I am so excited to have found this series. Legend.
Great demonstration! Thanks Chester!!
Top tier stuff mate! Srsly saved me massive headaches, cheers!
THE BEST TUTORIAL EVER!!! Thank you so much for taking your time to do this.
@ChesterTugwell
Жыл бұрын
You're very welcome!
Hi, I do not generally add comments online, but this tutorial merit my comments. My wife and I want to start a rental business, we needed an invoice system, did not know how to do that. Your tutoral has helped significantly. than you. will watch the other videos .
Hi Chester, thank you for this series of videos. I was looking for this for a couple of weeks, and I found this tutorial of yours today. It was clear and informative. Keep doing more! God Bless!
@ChesterTugwell
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent video, many thanks. Fantastic and very easy to follow.
Hi Chester, I just wanted to say a big thank you. You helped me a lot today, not on this subject, but on creating a numbered style list. Your explanation is wonderfully clear. Much appreciated. Angela
@ChesterTugwell
Ай бұрын
My pleasure, especially as you seem to be a cat lover 🐈⬛
@thelionspet
Ай бұрын
@@ChesterTugwell I am a cat lover indeed. Dogs too.. and the odd monkey lol
That’s amazing very good and clear to follow thank you,
i liked this video. It really helped me understand how I can make my tasks more efficient. Thank you for taking the time.
Very informative and useful. Thanks Chester
Simply brilliant!
Absolutely fantastic tutorial !!!
Excel, Word and Corel Draw are such excellent software!
You have made this boring job fun and easy thank you for this fantastic tutorial :)
Hi Chester, you're a great teacher. I've followed your series on how to create an invoice and I've benefitted a great deal. Needless to say, however, I'm still asking for more: How about tackling the aspect of printing the invoice, especially creating and printing an invoice that may span multiple pages??. This one is quite scarce on the internet. Thanking you in advance.
Great tutorial! I can’t wait to follow along the rest of the series as I look to replace FileMaker Pro for my invoicing
@ChesterTugwell
Жыл бұрын
Have fun!
You have done magic there, thank you so much. 😊
Learned a lot you are an awesome person and teacher
concise and beautiful.....! good job mate
Extremely informative. The quite useful technique for designing Invoice Template
Thank you for your sharing. That's so easy to learn and great invoice.👍☺
This was very helpful! Thank you. I wondered on how to do this. Your video made it so much easier for me to do our business invoices. 😀
@ChesterTugwell
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
This really transformed my understanding of Excel! You are a great teacher!
@ChesterTugwell
Ай бұрын
Many thanks
Thank you! Just subscribed you because of this helpful video, hope you keep guide us in excel 😊
Thank you Sir.. Well explained, and Great work
chester i feel so smart thanks to you i could make it from scratch omg thank youuuu I love you you are an angel..
@ChesterTugwell
Жыл бұрын
Glad I could help!
Extremely easy to understand video.. Thanks for sharing it with us..
Very good job, great way to explain.
Thank very much for these content 🙏🏽
it is very simple to understand and follow the guidance. thank
Enjoyed your video thank you
Thank you very MUCH!!!
Espectacular!!! thank you!!
thank you so much really helpful
Thank you so much, i love your video. It make me to easily know how to set the VBA. Just have a question, if i want to send the PDF using gmail instead of outlook. May i know how to do the setting.
Very NICE! good job! One question, i need to store data base in another excel file example "invoices book"
Thank you for producing this series, it's been very insightful. Is it possible to create a drop down list inside of the customer database table that you are using to create the customer drop-down list?
@rickstard73
Жыл бұрын
There is, at the 14:95 mark
Thank you so much!
Hi Chester. Question - in the description area, is there a way to merge the invoicing information in from another tab in the workbook? I have a "recording sheet" where I list orders as they come in, so I may have the same customer listed 30 times between other customers. Is there a way to pull in the billing details for just that customer in the description table?
Excellent tutorial, easy to understand. Thank you so much. Ps. Any possibility for adding Customer statements.
Can you combine the invoice system with inventory? This way as the parts are listed on the invoice the quantities are taken out of inventory stock. Thank you
great content. Thanks for your work
Those who may be having trouble using the F3 key on Mac..you can simply type the name you saved... just place an equal sign first.
I love how you explain things that make it easy to follow. I am wanting to create an invoice for my husbands business that is super easy to use which actually means I am unable to do a Drop down menu. My Husband is in the Automotive industry and some of his customers have more than 1 car so my way of thinking was if I could type the Rego number into the field and all relevant information shows up on the invoice. My question is how can I go about that?
Thanks so much, this is great!
This is super helpful and there's nothing else like it that I have found. Truly the answer to my prayers. Quick question - I have many different types of addresses from companies in different countries. Sometimes I will have a blank address box for Address 4 and Address 5 for example. Right now it's displaying a zero - how do I make the zeros just appear as blank cells if they do not refer to part of an address?
Thank you!!! Excellent.
Outstanding man!
Thank You!!
Mr. Chester, I learned a lot from your video but just one thing I'd like to add. I think you forgot to add the multiply formula in the VAT column. As it will only calculate only a single VAT item no matter what the quantity is. Please correct me if I am wrong.
@colinstobbart599
6 ай бұрын
Great video but yes you are right I was about to say the same
Hi, I like your invoice system that you have created. Is there a possibility that you can incorporate a credit, debit note and quotation to this system?
This is really useful and simply explained (compliment). Would you be prepared to enhance it slightly, I need to be able to historically review the quantity of each item I have sold but currently it only stores the invoice number, customer and total price and not the items with their prices and quantities. Hope you can help.
This is a great work mat
Thank you for these amazing videos! Quick question, what macro do I need to insert in order for me to input a price and have it automatically multiply it by a percentage (all in the same cell)?
Hi Chester, your videos are just what I needed. However, I have a question. In my scenario I need to create an invoice based on a value which is already calculated in the master spreadsheet which also contains the company name, address, email etc. can I use the same formula for the address to pull that through from the master spreadsheet? Thank you Sharon
thank you so must it was helpful
que barbaridad de tutorial!! gracias!!
So easy to follow although paused and replayed a lot many thanks
This is good work. I just had a challenge with the camera
Thank you very much
Such a fantastic walkthrough and explanation. Thank you for taking the time to do this. On a side note, this template that you have shared for Excel is there a way that I would be able to convert this into Google Sheets without loosing the macro/automated actions? Thank you in advance.
These vidios are awesome. When you create a new invoice it clears all the formulas how do you stop this happening? or have i missed a step?
Thank you!
Hello there! Thank you for the super helpful video! Can I check if I am able to edit the individual invoices once it is kept in the record? Thank u!
Great video man! You're the best. I cannot thank you enough! I mean with this, I'm going to ask the company to drop TALLY PRIME and drop the Company Server and work on this. It's good and effective, have you made a video to link this invoice to store inventory? If not, then you definitely should.
Thanks for the tips Sir. How to insert the new record in top of th table?
Thanks!
Thanks man👍🏽
Great video, I am a beginner and this has been extreme useful thank you. Your manner and speed is spot on and you make it very easy to follow the tutorial. THANK YOU.(One observation, your vat calculation is incorrect. It should be 20% of I19 not G19. ) I am looking to create a document which is specifically to track complaints to the council so need a unique number for this as well as a link to email exchanges. I will use what I have learned in this tutorial to do as much as I can however do you have a tutorial for this type of document please
Thanks a lot for your good explanation. But I have issue with the size of paper when I put it A4 or letter become smaller than your page size I am using Mac Book Pro
Great tutorial, so clear and easy to follow your instructions... however, I'm getting an error with the data drop down. Doing it exactly as you are showing, but I think there is a cell formatting issue on mine that needs to change? For example the 30,60,90 it gives me "30,60,90" as the only drop down option, its not breaking it up into 3 options and with my customer drop down its still not giving me the newly added customers even after creating the name dropdown which I did like yours. Any advice?
This video has been a huge help! Very easy to follow as well. One weird thing though is when I go onto my Visual Basic application, it is all in German? I've gone into options, language and all my preferences are in English and I can't change it to English? Any help from comments or from yourself would be much appreciated!
Thank u so much