invoicepy

CLI invoice tool, store and print invoices as pdf. save companies and customers for later use.

installation

pip install invoicepy

config

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

examples

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 in 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

cli

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

pdf

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.
  -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.

templates

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.

schema

contributing

if you written cool new template or improved some features, feel free to fork and PR. See contributing guidelines.

to-dos

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)

Credits

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

Licence

Free software: MIT license

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76 Dec 12, 2022

Releases(0.1.2)

0.1.2(Nov 29, 2021)

patch
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
0.1.1(Nov 26, 2021)

fixed sample-config command invoicepy-0.1.1.tar.gz .
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
0.1.0(Nov 25, 2021)
First release.

Features:

init config with sample-config command.

provide custom config flag with invoicepy -C, default ~/.pyconfig.json

print invoice pdf with pdf command.

invoices are saved to user config file (this can be disabled with --no-save option).

increment invoice number based on series field for given company based on saved invoices.

companies and customers can be saved configured with alias for quick access when creating new invoices.

simple template is provided, user can add their own templates with custom_templates_dir option. (-t flag)

open generated invoice in browser with -b flag.

support for vat lines, simple calculations are done to calculate tax amounts.

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
invoicepy-0.1.0.tar.gz(38.44 KB)