CLI invoice tool, store and print invoices as pdf. save companies and customers for later use.
pip install invoicepy
see troubleshooting section below for common problems
config stores companies and customers by alias and invoices.
custom_templates_dir is available for customising templates.
write sample config with:
invoicepy sample-config
# then customize it in $HOME/.invoicepy.conf
- print pdf saving it in current directory, result is invoice nr. BAR001
invoicepy pdf --company foo --customer bar --line '{"price":10, "qty": 20, "name":"1h services"}' --series BAR
when above is repeated twice, the invoices numers will increase, BAR002, BAR003. this is calculated per series. see below for more options.
- below example won't save invoice in config, open in it browser and use custom template specified in
custom_templates_dir:
invoicepy pdf --company foo --customer bar --line ... -b --no-save --series BAR --number 25 --curency USD --template my_custom_template.html
invoicepy [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Options:
-C, --config PATH
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
sample-config generate sample config in home dir
pdf prints pdf to given path
Options:
-l, --line TEXT json string of invoice line, can pass multiple. ex:
--line '{"price":15, "qty": 100, "name":"1h cleaning
services", "vat": 21}' --line ... [required]
The fields are as follows:
`price` - price of product
`qty` - quantity of product
`name` - name of product
`vat` - vat rate %
-c, --company TEXT company alias as in configuration. [required]
-r, --customer TEXT customer alias as in configuration. [required]
-d, --date TEXT invoice date, `create_date` field. `yyyy-mm-dd` format
-e, --due-date TEXT If due date is not provided, `payment_term_days` is
used to calculate it.
-s, --series TEXT invoice series [required]
-n, --number INTEGER invoice number, if not provided, it will calculated
from company config for given series.
-u, --currency TEXT currency, default=EUR
-o, --output PATH output path, can be new filepath, directory. If it's
not provided the invoice pdf will be saved in current
directory.
-t, --template TEXT template name, ex. simple.html. `custom_templates_dir`
will be searched first, then package templates.
--save / --no-save decides whether to store invoice in config file.
-b, --browser open generated invoice in browser.
--help show this message and exit.
currently two templates are available:
simple.html- simple english template (default).simple_lt.html- simple lithuanian/english template.
you can pass your own template name with -t. see custom_templates_dir (config section). have a look on schema below in case you want to write your own templates. templates are written in html and use jinja2 templating language.
| Problem | Solution |
|---|---|
invoicepy: command not found |
Your distro didn't append python bin folder to your PATH. You can check where package lives with pip3 show invoicepy and add appropriate path. Example in your .bashrc: export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin" |
OSError: encoder jpeg2k not available |
This is caused by pillow needing some extra libs, on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libjpeg8-dev then pip install --no-cache-dir -I pillow. On other distros find libjpeg8-dev equiavilent or google around for solutions regarding pillow. |
sample-config says Aborting and exists |
Fixed in 0.1.1 |
if you written cool new template or improved some features, feel free to fork and PR. See contributing guidelines.
- use babel for translations and locale
- extend tests
- consider moving config to yaml
- backup copy config on start
- invoices should have unique ids (maybe companies and customers too?)
- view saved invoices
- reprint saved invoices (?)
- package for arch (AUR)
This package was created with Cookiecutter and the johanvergeer/cookiecutter-poetry project template.
Template taken from here and slightly modified: https://github.com/sparksuite/simple-html-invoice-template
Free software: MIT license