Receipt Caker

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Invoices and Receipts for IT Services

IT services firms bill recurring support plans, project work like migrations and rollouts, hourly troubleshooting, and hardware or licences supplied to clients. Receipt Caker gives you a browser tool to itemize all of it on a professional invoice with a live preview and automatic totals. When a client pays, you build a matching receipt the same way.

How do IT services firms invoice with Receipt Caker?
Receipt Caker is a free browser tool for building IT services invoices and receipts. You add lines for a monthly support plan, project work, hourly time, or hardware and licences supplied, then enter the amounts. Tax and totals calculate automatically in the live preview. Add your business details and payment terms, then export a PNG for free or a watermark-free PDF with your logo on the Pro plan.

Documents it services issue

Support plan invoice

Charges a recurring managed support or maintenance plan, with the period noted.

Project invoice

Bills a defined project such as a migration or rollout, often by milestone.

Hardware and licence recharge

Passes through equipment or software licences supplied to the client, itemized per item.

Service receipt

Confirms a client payment, recording the amount, date and services settled.

Why it services use Receipt Caker

  • Combine support plans, projects, hourly time and hardware on one invoice.
  • Automatic subtotal, tax and total as you add each line item.
  • Add your logo and remove the watermark on the Pro plan.
  • No signup, and client figures stay in your browser during rendering.
  • Export a free PNG or a watermark-free PDF to email to clients.

How the billing workflow works

  1. 1

    List the services

    Add lines for the support plan, project work, hours worked and any hardware supplied.

  2. 2

    Enter amounts and tax

    Set fixed fees, hours and rates, or item prices and a tax rate; totals update live.

  3. 3

    Complete the header

    Fill in your business name, the client, invoice number, dates and payment terms.

  4. 4

    Export and send

    Download a PNG free or a PDF on Pro, then email the invoice to the client yourself.

Recurring plans and one-off projects together

IT billing tends to sit on two rails: the predictable monthly support plan and the variable project or break-fix work. A single client might owe their managed plan for the month plus a fee for a server migration and a couple of hours of ad hoc troubleshooting. Receipt Caker lets you set all of that out as separate lines on one invoice, so nothing gets lost and the client sees the full month at a glance.

With the live preview and automatic totals, adding a project line or an extra hour updates the total immediately, so the summary always matches the detail.

Reselling hardware and licences

When you supply equipment or software licences, those costs sit alongside your labour. Listing each item as its own line, separate from your service fees, keeps the invoice clear about what is a product and what is your time.

Because you write the descriptions and prices, you can itemize a batch of laptops, a switch, or a set of user licences precisely, which is exactly the detail a client's finance team wants to see.

Receipts and clean records

A receipt on payment gives both sides a record of what was settled, which is useful when support plans renew and projects overlap. You build it the same way, mirroring the paid invoice.

Everything renders in the browser and exports as a PNG or, on Pro, a branded PDF. Receipt Caker is a document generator; it does not monitor systems, track time automatically or collect payments, so those stay in your own tooling.

Frequently asked questions

Can I bill a support plan and project work on one invoice?
Yes. Receipt Caker uses line items, so you add the recurring support plan on one line, noting the period it covers, and then add separate lines for project work such as a migration or a rollout, which you can break into milestones if that matches your quote. You can also add hourly lines for ad hoc troubleshooting, entering hours and a rate. Each line has its own description, so the client can distinguish the managed plan from the project and from any extra time. The subtotal, tax and total recalculate automatically in the live preview, so the bottom figure always reconciles with the detail. This gives the client one clear document for the month rather than several. When it is paid, you issue a matching receipt. The tool builds and exports the invoice; it does not run recurring billing, so you create each period's document yourself.
How do I itemize hardware or licences I supplied?
Add each piece of hardware or each licence as its own line item with a clear description, a quantity and a unit price. For a batch of the same item, set the quantity and Receipt Caker multiplies it out; for mixed items, use a line each. Keeping these product lines separate from your labour lines makes the invoice transparent, so the client can see what is equipment or software and what is your service time. The subtotal, tax and total update automatically in the live preview as you edit. This level of detail is exactly what a client's finance team tends to want when signing off a bill that mixes products and services. When the invoice is paid, produce a receipt that records it. The tool generates and exports the document; sourcing the hardware and reconciling the cost in your own accounts remains your responsibility.
Does the tool track my time or monitor systems for billing?
No. Receipt Caker is purely a document generator, so it does not track time, monitor client systems, or capture usage to bill from. You enter the figures yourself from your own records, whether that is hours worked, a fixed project fee, a support plan or hardware supplied. What the tool does is turn those figures into a clean, itemized invoice or receipt in the browser, with automatic totals and tax, which you export as a PNG for free or a watermark-free PDF with your logo on Pro. Because rendering is client-side, the details you enter are not sent elsewhere to be processed. If you rely on monitoring or time-tracking tools for IT work, those stay in your own stack; Receipt Caker simply produces the professional document at the end, and you send it to the client and follow up in your usual way.

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