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Vertex42 specializes in Excel templates. Its Free Invoice Template is designed to give small businesses an easy and inexpensive way to bill their customers. It's customizable, too, and it even calculates subtotals and taxes. You need Microsoft's Excel to run it, or a similar program that can run Excel spreadsheets.
As with other Vertex42 templates we've tried, Free Invoice Template is a very small download, just under 11KB zipped and 43KB unzipped. We clicked the extracted template, which opened inside Excel 2010 in a protected view. We clicked Enable Editing, which allowed us to make and save changes to create our own documents. The template includes three different invoice styles, each with sample figures that do as good a job as a page of text in showing how the invoices work. We started by entering our company's name, address, and other information, including tax rates, and then we cleared the cells we'd be entering data into by simply highlighting them and deleting the content. When we'd finished our custom template, we named it and saved it the appropriate directory. To use our custom template, we opened it in Excel, entered the customer's data and our invoice data, named and saved it, and then either printed it for delivery or e-mailed it to the customer. Entering our data was easy; for instance, we merely had to enter an X to indicate a taxable item, and the spreadsheet would calculate the tax. We could also add comments, company slogans, customer IDs, and do pretty much anything else we could do with an Excel template. Web links accessed information on how to use Free Invoice Template, including a link to a corresponding Price Quote Template.
Excel templates let users create customized professional-quality documents quickly and easily. For small businesses, contractors, freelancers, and others, tools like Free Invoice Template can make a difference.
Publisher's Description
From Vertex42:
This Free Invoice Template by Vertex42.com is a simple and budget-friendly solution for small businesses looking for an easy yet professional way to bill their customers. The template is ideal for service providers and freelancers who charge for both labor and materials. You can indicate which items are taxable by entering an "x" in the Taxed column. The spreadsheet calculates the subtotals and tax for you. The template includes 3 different sample invoice formats to choose from, and 3 example item descriptions to show you how you might charge for project-based work, hourly work, and parts or materials. If you want to create a printable invoice or blank invoice that you can complete by hand, you can customize the invoice with your company name, address, and logo, then clear the cells that you will be entering and calculating by hand, and then print blank copies. For more information about how to manage and track your invoices using a template, you can visit the official author page (see the link within the spreadsheet).
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"Virus, virus, virus"
Version: Free Invoice Template 1.0
Pros
None, couldn't use because of the virus it installed
Cons
It installed a virus that immediately started screwing with my computer. Can't even open chrome to search the web. When I click on chrome it opens up as a fake web browser, wants me to buy stuff and telling me my performance is poor and I need to run some fix it program. I'm writing this on my ipad cause now I have to fix my desktop so these folks don't steal my passwords.
Summary
Virus, virus, virus
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"Basic, but does the job I needed doing"
Version: Free Invoice Template 1.0
Pros
Quick to download, easy to install
Cons
Paucity of instructions, but still easy to figure out.
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"**INFECTED**"
Version: Free Invoice Template 1.0
Pros
None unless you like trojans
Cons
Download is an exe file. Ad-watch live stopped it running, saying it was infected with Win32 trojan.
Summary
Good grief CNET I thought you checked these files?
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"BLEKKO VIRUS WILL BE INSTALLED UPON DOWNLOADING IT!!"
Version: Free Invoice Template 1.0
Pros
NONE! Blekko virus was installed upon downloading!!
Cons
Blekko virus was installed upon downloading!! BEWARE!!!
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"Simple, light weight template for multiple invoicing."
Version: Free Invoice Template 1.0
Pros
Intuitive and usable in minutes.
Cons
Can't think of an
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"Wow, some people rate negative because they're stupid."
Version: Free Invoice Template 1.0
Pros
IF you use MS Excel, these templates are a great resource and a time savings. Well designed and looks professional
Cons
If you're too stupid to know how to open a template like the first dope reviewer, DON'T BOTHER DOWNLOADING!! Otherwise there is NO CON to this free template. It's JUST a template!
Summary
Useful tool, if you aren't a negative rating "tool" just cause you're stupid to use MS Excel.
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"I couldn't figure out how to use it."
Version: Free Invoice Template 1.0
Pros
It's free.
Cons
I couldn't figure out how to use it.
Summary
It's worthless to me.
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"This is a useful template for entry level business."
Version: Free Invoice Template 1.0
Pros
Easy to use and is easily modifiable to my own needs.
Cons
Not much of a Con, but knowledge of MS Excel spreadsheets is necessary to use this template.
