Overview

Project meant to generate invoices as PDF. It takes a client and a issuer as configuration during the init phase. During execution some information needs to be provided. The project idea came about after offering consultancy in the German market (IT Beratung) as a freelancer.

Design

Data structure documentation can be found here.

Usage

Init

Initial configuration will be done using the init command. Interactively fill in the client and the issuer information. This data will be saved under your home directory by default: ~/.invoicerender. Override this using the INVOICERENDER_HOME environment variable.

$ invoicerender init --client-count=2

Please provide the following information for the invoicerender initial configuration:

Header text: John Doe - Consulting
Footer text: No VAT shall be requested for these services under the EU law ...
Header logo: /tmp/images/logo.png

Please profide the issuer's information:
Name: John Doe
Street name and number: Müsterman str. 123
Post Code: 40123
City: München
Country: România
VAT No.: DE01234567
Income and sales tax number: 123456123456
Bank name: ING
IBAN: DE0123929838192389128907894567412
Swift/BIC Code: COBADEFXXXX

Client1 Information
...

Client2 Information
...

List

Use to list items that have been provided or generated.

Clients

List the registered clients

$ invoicerender list clients
NAME       ID
First      1
Second     2 

Issue

Generate an invoice for a named client with just one billable service. Use this when just one item description is required:

$ invoicerender issue --client=<client name> \
                      --item-description="Services provided last month" \
                      --item-unit-price=100 \
                      --item-currency=EUR \
                      --item-quantity=21 \
                      --item-vat-percentage=19

Generate an invoice for a named client with multiple billabe items:

$ invoicerender issue --client=<client name> --interactive --item-count=2

item1 Description: Services provided last month
item1 Unit Price: 100
item1 Currency: EUR
item1 Quantity: 21
item1 VAT Percentage: 19

item2 Description: Miscellaneous billable items
item2 Unit Price: 50
item2 Currency: EUR
item2 Quantity: 3
item2 VAT Percentage: 19