hello fellas need help with a invoice

[Liquid_Scope_99]

Hello guys as i try many different ways grow my Income i have a lawn to mow it is a business.
I will need and invoice to get paid i looked on download.com most said they were free but weren't does anybody know of an easy and free to use invoice maker thingie. thanks in advance

[Airbozo]

Microsoft word has an invoice template included. In fact the 2007 version has several different formats.

If you don't have word, try Open Office. They have similar templates.

Hope this helps!

[burntheland]

Yeah, I was just going to suggest using Word or Open Office. All you really need to make it look official is a logo, two boxes, and a few rows and columns :p

[Liquid_Scope_99]

+rep guys thanks a lot really helps.
It will only be $50 each time i cut it but $100 month extra is gotta coem in handy and later on i summer i may get to mow it every week
thanks again

[Luke122]

Is it a big lawn? I'd mow lawns full time for $50 a cut!

[Oneslowz28]

I was going to suggest the Word templates or openoffice.org. If you decide to make this any bigger consider investing in quickbooks. I use it and it makes life so much easier.

$50 a cut is not bad if the place is small. I have a friend who owns a lawn service and charges $200 a month for businesses with up to 1 acre of lawn. That includes weed eating. On larger accounts he charges up to $300 a month with weed eating included. I pay him $75 a month for cutting my home 3 times with weed eating and shrub trimming included.

There is some good money to be had in lawn service. He commented a few weeks ago at our weekly football game that he has to cut 30 yards a day just to keep up with the demand. Granted we do have several very large subdivisions here. He has 3 crews of 2 men each. One to mow and the other to weed eat. Then they both do the clean up and any other landscaping needs. Oh and he works 6 days a week with 30 yards a day. Add that up and you can see the money making opportunity that is in lawn service.

[Liquid_Scope_99]

yes ,Oneslowz28 that would be a dream if i could get a third of that kind of business it would be great i think i have been looking at it all wrong i need a job for real steady income . You know something to count on but , What little time i have had to ask a round . Just at work i picked up well i will be mowing the company yard pizza hut which is very small .
Then i am going to ask the advance next door .there are several business in walking distance with the type of landscape that pizza hut has .
I also picked up a girl at works yard till she gets a mower maybe she will decide not to buy one lol .Another lady is in the process of buying a house and wants me to do all her yard work . I also did some pc work on one pc .
I am in the process of building a pc for a lady and have one suppose to work on soon .
Also working at the pizza hut delivering has taken me to areas i didn't even know existed.
I am not getting ahead of myself most of this may fall thru but .
I may go down in flames but im going to fight all the way and just imagine if the economy didn't suck right now lol

[Airbozo]

One of my cousins put himself through college mowing lawns in the summer and removing snow in the winter. He worked through high school and part of his first year of college and then stopped to study more. Once he got done with college he started mowing again until he found a job in his profession (Business degree), but eventually ended up doing yard work again. For many years he made as much or more money than I did...

[burntheland]

I pay the kid down the street 20 bones per cut.....fail! mwuhahahahahaha