Invoice Koi

Invoicing for event planners

The client is paying for two different things and usually only recognises one of them. There is the day, which they see, and there are the four months before it, which they do not. Then there are the suppliers, whose money passes through you and is not yours, and which an invoice has to say so.

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01On the document

What event planners
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
Planning and designjob
Coordination on the dayeach
Event staffhrs
Venue visits and walkthroughseach
Supplier managementmonth
Vendor costs, re-billedjob
Rental, tables and linenjob

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
PLANNING
Planning and design$1,200
Venue visits, 3$270
Subtotal$1,470
ON THE DAY
Coordination and two staff$850
Subtotal$850
VENDORS
Florist, re-billed$640
Rental, tables and linen$380
Subtotal$1,020
Total$3,340
Grouped line items are free, on all nine templates.
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Price book
Planning and designjob
Coordination on the dayeach
Event staffhrs
One tap puts the line on the invoice.
This job, grouped
PLANNING$1,470
ON THE DAY$850
VENDORS$1,020
Total$3,340
No signal needed. It is written here.
02Why event planners use it

Three things that
save the evening.

Supplier money, shown as theirs

Scan a supplier invoice into an expense and re-bill it as a line at what it cost. Under its own heading it reads as money passing through you rather than as your fee.

Payments in stages, recorded as they land

A deposit at booking, a stage at three months, the balance after the day. Each one is a payment against the invoice, and the balance and the status follow from them.

A diary that is not in your head

The jobs schedule holds what is booked and when, so the walkthrough in March and the day in June are a list rather than something you keep remembering to check.

03 · Questions

Asked by event planners.

How do I show supplier costs without marking them up?

Re-bill them from their receipts under their own heading. The line carries the amount that was on the supplier invoice and the subtotal says what the suppliers came to.

Can I take a booking deposit and the balance later?

Yes. Record each payment against the invoice as it arrives and the balance updates. A part-paid booking shows what is still owed and when it is due.

Can I invoice a venue rather than the couple?

Yes. The client on the document is whoever is paying, and the reports total by client either way.

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