An invoice is an important commercial, accounting and fiscal document
From a commercial perspective, an invoice is a document that allows your business to get paid for the products and/or services it provides to its customers.
From an accounting perspective: an invoice is an accounting supporting document that allows you to record your company's sales.
From a fiscal perspective, an invoice must include a certain number of mandatory mentions and must be kept for several years.
Why not use a free invoice template on Word or Excel?
When an entrepreneur starts their business and needs to write their first invoice to record their first sale: they often make the mistake of searching the internet for a free Excel invoice template.
After some time, their business grows:
- They now need to write several invoices per week or even per day.
- They sell more and more different items or services to different customers.
- They must verify that their invoice numbering is correct.
- They must check that all their previous invoices are paid and possibly send reminders to bad payers.
- They must write numerous quotes and follow up on estimates they've sent to prospects.
- They must find and verify all invoices sent to a customer because this customer is blocking payment for a dubious reason or simply to buy time.
- They must send a duplicate to one of their customers who has lost the original invoice.
- They cannot easily find a customer's address or the price of an item.
- They must check with each invoice that the numbering is correct and follows the continuous sequence.
- They cannot easily find a customer's address or the price of an item.
- They must check with each invoice that the numbering is correct and follows the continuous sequence.
- They must manually calculate their monthly turnover and cash flow.
- They must remember to backup their Excel invoice files.
- They must protect their PC against viruses, failures, losses, theft...
- They must transmit all invoices from the previous quarter to their accountant to encode their accounting.
- They may need to prepare for a tax audit.
- ...
And all this in addition to their main activity which generally takes more than 12 hours a day at the beginning and all the other administrative tasks related to managing their business.
At some point, they begin to regret their choice because they notice that they spend more time in front of their computer on Excel for management chores than developing their business.
Using cloud-based invoicing software saves you time and protects you from the dangers of using a free Excel invoice template.
With online invoicing software, you won't encounter all the problems mentioned above and you'll save time to focus on your main activity.
With Flexina, you can fully customize your invoice templates for free with the help of invoicing professionals.
When you become a customer, our customer service helps you configure your professional invoice template for free.
You can thus directly issue professional invoices with a fully customizable template in your company's image.
Don't use a free Excel invoice template, trust Flexina instead
With the Flexina cloud invoicing software, you'll save an average of more than two hours per day for your commercial management.
Your company's management data will be protected and automatically backed up several times a day.
You'll be able to quickly access your invoicing and commercial management at any time and from anywhere (at your customers', on vacation, at your mother-in-law's...) from your phone, tablet, PC or MAC.
You'll have at your side a competent customer service composed of computer engineers and accountants who for more than 10 years have been supporting hundreds of other entrepreneurs.