Invoice Koi

Invoicing for carpenters

Carpentry bills by the day more often than by the hour, and the materials are half the conversation: a kitchen is one number to you and three to the customer. The estimate has to hold up months later when the cabinets finally arrive.

An illustration of a hand plane, two chisels, a try square, a scatter of screws and a pencil, with a koi swimming among them.
01On the document

What carpenters
put on an invoice.

These go in your price book once, with your own prices against them. After that a line is one tap: the item, the description, the unit and the price fill themselves, and the totals resolve underneath.

LineUnit
Carpentry day ratedays
Carpentry laborhrs
Lumber and sheet materialsjob
Hardware and fixingsjob
Fitted unit, supply and fiteach
Site visit and quoteeach

Prices are yours. Invoice Koi ships a handful of round placeholder lines to start from and never fills your book with figures you did not set.

A job, grouped Subtotals per section
ROUGH CARPENTRY
Carpentry day rate$780
Lumber and sheet goods$465
Subtotal$1,245
FINISH CARPENTRY
Carpentry day rate$780
Hardware and fasteners$185
Subtotal$965
CABINETS
Cabinet, supply and install$1,340
Subtotal$1,340
Total$3,550
Grouped line items are free, on all nine templates.
A photograph of a carpenter at the bench in a small workshop, late light through the window, phone in one hand.
Price book
Carpentry day ratedays
Carpentry laborhrs
Lumber and sheet materialsjob
One tap puts the line on the invoice.
This job, grouped
ROUGH CARPENTRY$1,245
FINISH CARPENTRY$965
CABINETS$1,340
Total$3,550
No signal needed. It is written here.
02Why carpenters use it

Three things that
save the evening.

Day rates and hourly on the same book

A price-book line carries its own unit, so a day rate and an hourly rate live side by side and the right one goes on the right job without arithmetic.

A quote that survives the wait

The estimate keeps its lines, its client and its terms until it is accepted, then converts to the invoice. Nothing is retyped and nothing drifts in between.

Nine templates, your logo, your accent

The preview is the PDF, drawn by the same renderer, so the document you show the customer is exactly the one they get.

03 · Questions

Asked by carpenters.

Can I invoice by the day instead of the hour?

Yes. Each price-book line carries its own unit (days, hours, each, per job) and you keep as many of them as you need.

How do I show materials separately from labor?

Group the lines under headings with their own subtotals. Materials and labor read as two figures rather than as one number the customer has to take on trust.

Is there a free version?

Free covers a hundred invoices a year, with estimates, clients, all nine templates and the reports uncapped. There is no trial clock and no card, and Pro lifts the count when a hundred is not enough.

Other trades