Want to put your logo on your invoice? Change the fonts? Add some color to it? Now you can! We just launched a small yet powerful new feature in Freckle that allows you to add custom HTML to any invoice.
For example, here’s what the default styling of an invoice looks like:
And here’s the same invoice with a tiny amount of custom HTML!
Here’s the HTML snippet that makes this work:
<style>
#invoice, #invoice_report {
font-family: Georgia;
}
#invoice div.custom-header {
padding: 0 0 20px 0;
margin: 0 0 20px 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid #9dd64b;
}
</style>
<img src="https://asset0.letsfreckle.com/
images/sites/logo_bigger.png">
You’ll find the custom HTML header field when you create or edit any invoice—just put some HTML in, done!
Pretty simple! Now, you might not be a web designer, but if you have one handy or hire one, it’s really easy to add some personality to your invoices! You can add any arbitrary HTML you want, including custom CSS styling, images, text or anything really.
Tip: If you do include images or other external assets, be sure to serve them from a SSL-enabled web server, that is URLs starting with “https”. This makes sure that when your clients view your invoice, they won’t get warning messages about “mixed secure and non-secure content” in some browsers (like Internet Explorer).
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Great! This helps a lot, and saves me time, no more producing reports with your data again, you do that for me! =]
Hey—awesome! Let us know how it goes and if we have to adjust the feature so you can build the invoice of your dreams!
This is a great start! What would make my day, is the possibility to call an API in order to POST a JSON for the creation of a PDF…
For now I have the following workflow: download a CSV, transform it into JSON and send it to our invoicing tool that generates PDFs using FOP.
But I am aware this is not really what anyone else does
We do plan to eventually support generating PDFs, but it’s not in our immediate timeline. We also have plans to have a full API for invoices, but again I don’t have a date for you on that.
Frecklin’ awesome!
Yes!!! Thanks
