How to create an invoice in 5 steps

1. Add your details. Enter your name or company under "Bill From", choose whether you're a business or an individual, and select your country. The editor automatically shows the fields that are required where you're based.
2. Add your client. Fill in their details under "Bill To" and select their country. If it's a cross-border B2B sale within the EU, the tool detects it and asks how VAT should be handled.
3. List what you're billing. Add line items with a description, quantity, rate, and tax rate. Subtotal, taxes, and total are calculated for you – including discounts if you use them.
4. Make it yours (optional). Upload your logo, pick a style, font, and color theme, set your currency, and adjust the date and number format.
5. Preview and download. Hit Preview to see the finished invoice, then Download and pick one or more formats: PDF, ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, or Peppol XML. One invoice per day is free – no account needed.

If something required is still missing, the download dialog lists every open issue. Click one, and the editor highlights the exact field so you can fix it in seconds.

What is this invoice generator?

This is a free online invoice generator that runs entirely in your browser – no sign-up, no subscription, no software to install. Unlike most free invoice makers that only produce a PDF, it also creates compliant e-invoices: ZUGFeRD and Factur-X hybrid PDFs as well as Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 XML. That makes it just as useful for a quick one-off invoice as for billing business clients or public-sector buyers who now require structured electronic invoices. Your work is saved automatically as a draft, so you can leave and pick up right where you stopped.

Download formats: PDF and real e-invoices

You can select several formats in a single download – for example a classic PDF for your records plus a Peppol XML for your client. Each format has its own validator: the PDF has the fewest requirements, while e-invoice formats check everything the standard demands (addresses, tax breakdown, payment data, references) before you export.

It also works in the other direction: upload an existing XML e-invoice (Peppol BIS, UBL, XRechnung, Factur-X, FacturaE, or ZUGFeRD) and the editor prefills all fields from it. Handy for editing, re-issuing, or converting an invoice from one format to another.

Built for real tax rules, not just nice layouts

The moment you pick your country and your client's country, the generator adjusts what's required and how VAT is treated:

• Normal VAT – standard rates, editable per line item, calculated either on top of the subtotal (exclusive) or included in your prices (inclusive).
• Reverse charge – for most cross-border EU B2B sales. Tax is locked at 0%, both VAT IDs are required, and a legally worded note referring to Article 196 of the EU VAT Directive is added automatically (you can edit it).
• VAT exempt / no VAT – for small businesses below the VAT threshold or exempt services, with a mandatory exemption note that appears on the invoice and inside exported XML files.

Cross-border EU B2B constellations are detected automatically, and the tool suggests the right treatment – you always keep the final say.

Customize everything down to the last label

Every label on the invoice is editable. Rename "Invoice", "Qty", "Rate", or any other text, which also means you can write invoices in any language, regardless of the interface language. Beyond that you can:

• upload a logo and adjust its size,
• switch between a Simple and a Modern style – Modern adds color accents and a signature block with an uploaded signature image, your name, and your role,
• change the font, color theme, and date format,
• use any currency, including a custom symbol and its position, plus your preferred decimal and thousands separators,
• show or hide the quantity, rate, and tax columns – hidden columns still count toward the totals,
• add extra fields like email, phone, VAT ID, tax ID, registration ID, or fully custom fields,
• add a service period, notes with a custom title, and a footer for bank details and contact info,
• create multi-page invoices on A4 with page numbers, repeated invoice number and date, and a footer on all pages or only the last one.

Discounts, payment details, and references

Discounts work on two levels: a global discount (percentage or fixed amount) on the whole invoice, and optional item-level discounts with their own column, where each line can switch between percentage and fixed. Subtotal, tax, and total update instantly.

For e-invoices, you can attach structured payment details – choose card, cash, other, or bank transfer, which opens fields for account holder, bank name, account number, routing number, IBAN, and BIC/SWIFT – plus payment terms like "Net 30 days". These are embedded in the exported XML so your client's software can process the payment automatically. References (buyer reference, purchase order, contract, project) and Peppol endpoints (scheme and ID for seller and buyer) are supported too; several of them are mandatory for certain Peppol invoices, and the validator tells you exactly when.

What's free and what's premium

One invoice per day is completely free, in any export format, including all the tax and e-invoicing logic. There's no account and no subscription.

Premium unlocks the design and productivity extras: your company logo, signature, custom fonts, colors and styles, discount options, and downloading multiple invoices in one go. It's a one-time payment per download – additional invoices in the same batch get cheaper, and there's no recurring charge of any kind. If you'd rather not pay, one click removes all premium features and you can download the free version instead.