Invoice Koi

Invoicing for fence contractors

A fencing job is mostly materials, and materials are mostly paid for before the work starts. That is the whole problem with the paperwork: the customer is looking at a total and thinking about labor, while the money that has already left your account is sitting in fourteen panels stacked on their lawn.

An illustration of a fence post, a post level, a bag of fast-setting concrete, a claw hammer and a roll of wire, with a koi swimming among them.
01On the document

What fence contractors
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
Fence panel, supplied and installedeach
Post, supplied and seteach
Rail, supplied and installedeach
Gate, supplied and hungeach
Old fence tear-out and haul-awayjob
Digging and post holeshrs
Site visit and estimateeach

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
TEAR-OUT
Old fence tear-out and haul-away$220
Subtotal$220
MATERIALS
Cedar privacy panels, 14$700
Posts and rails, 15$525
Gate, supplied$160
Subtotal$1,385
INSTALL
Installation labor, 2 days$640
Subtotal$640
Total$2,245
Grouped line items are free, on all nine templates.
A photograph of a fence contractor setting a post into a freshly dug hole along a backyard boundary, panels stacked on the grass.
Price book
Fence panel, supplied and installedeach
Post, supplied and seteach
Rail, supplied and installedeach
One tap puts the line on the invoice.
This job, grouped
TEAR-OUT$220
MATERIALS$1,385
INSTALL$640
Total$2,245
No signal needed. It is written here.
02Why fence contractors use it

Three things that
save the evening.

A deposit that covers the lumber

Quote the job, take a deposit against it, and the invoice shows what was paid up front and what is left. The materials are bought with their money rather than yours.

Materials and labor, told apart

Group them with their own subtotals so a customer comparing your price with a cheaper one can see that the difference is in the posts rather than in the day.

The estimate becomes the invoice

What was quoted converts with the lines, the client and your terms intact, so the document at the end matches the one they said yes to in March.

03 · Questions

Asked by fence contractors.

How do I take a deposit for materials before starting?

Record the deposit against the document. The invoice then shows the full price, what has been paid and the balance outstanding.

Can I invoice for a fence by the linear foot rather than per panel?

Yes. A price-book line carries its own unit, so you can bill per panel, per linear foot or per day, whichever way you priced it.

What if the ground turns out to be rock?

Add the extra digging as its own line before you send the invoice. It reads as work that happened rather than as a price that changed.

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