clarintux / invoice_maker

Cross-platform and multi-language automated invoice generator, wich support various invoice templates.

Invoice Maker

Cross-platform and multi-language automated invoice generator, wich support various invoice templates. Written in Python and wxPython..

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Preamble

A single generator that meets the different needs of everyone is probably impossible. To try to achieve this, Invoice Maker lets the user choose the language, the appearance of invoices and other things. Invoice Maker (v0.1) supports English, Italian, French, Spanish and German. 7 HTML templates are available.

Installation

• On Linux (Debian/Ubuntu based:

  sudo apt install git wkhtmltopdf wxpython-tools python3-pdfkit  # requirements
  sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python  # symbolic link to use python3 with 'python' command
  git clone https://github.com/clarintux/invoice_maker.git  # clone this repository in '$HOME/invoice_maker'
  chmod +x ~/invoice_maker/invoice_maker.py   # permit execution
  chmod +x ~/invoice_maker/send_mail.py       # permit execution
  

• On Linux (Arch based):

  yay -S git wkhtmltopdf-static python-pdfkit python-wxpython  # requirements
  git clone https://github.com/clarintux/invoice_maker.git  # clone this repository in '$HOME/invoice_maker'
  chmod +x ~/invoice_maker/invoice_maker.py   # permit execution
  chmod +x ~/invoice_maker/send_mail.py       # permit execution
  

• On Windows and Mac:

  • If not installed, install Python
  • Install wxPython:

  pip install wxPython
  

  • Install wkhtmltopdf:
  • Install pdfkit:

  pip install pdfkit
  

  • Clone the repository:

  git clone https://github.com/clarintux/invoice_maker.git
  

Replace the image logo.jpg with a JPG file with your logo. Modify TEXT1, TEXT2 and TEXT3 in the file text.txt accordently to your needs. Start invoice_maker and save your data and a invoice number. Insert data and invoice items for each customer.

Enjoy! :-)

P.S.: To automatically send invoices to customers, changes in the module send_mail.py are required. I can not predict wich port and server and things are used in your smtp server...

Usage

• python invoice_maker - Launch the GUI
• --help - display help and exit
• <locale code> - use selected locale without GUI
• --template - choose a template between 1 and 7 without GUI
• --all - generate all invoices without GUI
• --send - send all generated invoices without GUI

Examples

Assuming invoice_maker.py is in your path, it can be used like:

invoice_maker.py
invoice_maker.py --help
invoice_maker.py it --all --template 1
invoice_maker.py de --all --template 2
invoice_maker.py en --all --template 3 --send

Credits for Templates

• https://codepen.io/tjoen/pen/wvgvLX
• https://codepen.io/pvanfas/pen/vYEmGmK
• https://bootsnipp.com/snippets/9gjD
• https://htmlpdfapi.com/blog/free_html5_invoice_templates
• https://sparksuite.github.io/simple-html-invoice-template/