How to Create an Automated Invoice in Excel | Including Formulas and Customer Database

[@TheBellaBubbles]

I want to leave a really huge thank you on this video. I know what it’s like to make videos for a small audience and get not very many views. I just wanted to say after getting wrongfully terminated from my job and not having enough money for a lawyer I was looking for a new job. I finally found one a month later and managed to impress my new employer by automating their invoice system to spreadsheets with this series and save them thousands on paper and ink they would typically have to mail out each day. Thank you so much for helping me and so many others.

[@saitoglobal8830]

Have you donated to the fund raiser as a gesture of your appreciation? Its for a good cause :)

[@terrencedithejane9270]

This is probably one of the best tutorials in the world🙌🏾 the guidance in these series is absolutely phenomenal and easy to follow along. Thank you very much for gifting us with this wonderful automated invoicing system ❤ it definitely will make it easy for my business!!

[@ChesterTugwell]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MalibuBlondie]

I searched the internet high and low for the perfect way to set up invoices and receivables all while maintaining a customer database- and I am so glad that I stumbled upon this video! Fantastic explanation and narrating. Thank you for posting such a miraculous invention! I've been using this file for my small business, with some adaptations, and it works WONDERFULLY.

[@carlnicosia881]

Great series sir! I almost purchased an invoicing system for my business, but my girlfriend insisted I do some research and create my own. I found this series and all she's been saying is "I told you so!" LOL. A few tweaks and scripts to get it running on my Mac, but I now have a perfect invoicing system for my business! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@preppy_767]

Hi Carl, would you mind to share your tweaks to get this to work on MAC OS? Thanks!

[@annalinden-fraser137]

I'm a writer and really only know how to work in Word .... this is the first time I've ever felt I understood excel. What an absolutely marvellous tutorial, many thanks!

[@sarahbaskerville4615]

Finished following all six videos. Going to go through all again to polish off.. Absolutely brilliant. Thank you Chester.

[@lesliepeters9501]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! This is *exactly* what I need! I cannot tell you how many zillions of hours and $$ you have saved me. I can now ditch the $600/year quickbooks subscription and build my own. Your video descriptions are incredibly clear and educational. I was able to expand your system to include time tracking and create more buttons to generate the invoice from a log of services rendered for each client. I really cannot thank you enough for this wonderful resource and excellently delivered content.

[@ChesterTugwell]

That's great to hear. 👍

[@petuniamatsidisosithole6453]

Thank you so much for taking your time to share this and educate us. I almost bought an invoicing system but my partner told me to Google this for my business and it's exactly what I was looking for. You've saved me monthly subscriptions . Many thanks to you.

[@dejanandjelkovic2192]

The contribution is very detailed and instructive. Great praise for your patience and willingness to share your knowledge with others. I am grateful that there is someone willing to do this. You enabled others to speed up their work and give them a great incentive to achieve their goals

[@craigjonker3547]

This is really awesome. Not only have you put a lot of work into this, but its downloadable. You have saved me time and money and I thank you for that

[@nezmaf]

This tutorial video was one of the best. Explaining well, and clearly, all details are said nothing is ignored. Tune of voice and speed etc. Why not everyone around the world is not following this guy? well-educated person

[@user-nj5qe8qz3l]

Mr. Chester, with your help I now have a fully built invoicing system from automated invoices to generation of account statements. Thank you, you are a great teacher!❤

[@kurtgraber4390]

Huge Thankyou Chester! After 20 yrs of QBooks and a few upgrades Im forced to their subscription service with my appx 100 invoices a year. Went through all 6 videos and was able to modify to get a solution that works for me. As a non Excel user, I was able to build your basic KEEL to get the process started. Now Im back up and running a simple invoicing database. Thankyou for not wasting my time, sticking to the point and really helping!!!! Goodbye QB

[@ChesterTugwell]

Welcome

[@madrabbit9007]

This is awesome! My dad has been using a TYPEWRITER to send out invoices! I will be taking over the company next year and with this I can a move us into the 21st century.

[@KrakISback22]

Will definitely use this as my guide on automating our invoices. Thank you so much Chester for the tutorial.

[@mattrea6310]

This video is amazing, very clear and easy to follow. I am starting my new small business and can't afford much to start with. Thank you to your series of videos Chester, I was able to create an invoice to get myself going. I am very thankful I have come across your videos and you certainly have been a life saver. Not only that, you have educated me on how to use excel and the many uses it has. I am sure you have only scratched the surface on what excel can really do. I don't post comments very often but truly thank you for your videos and I also look forward to learning more from you. Truly amazing!!!!

[@ChesterTugwell]

Thanks Matt - I appreciate your comment

[@patty6236]

Thank you for this video! I will watch more of your other videos to refresh my skills and knowledge in Excel. I learned all these in College but have forgotten most of them especially the macros, formulas, etc. Super thankful I found this video because this is exactly what I need for my business now. Who knew right? That almost 20 years down the line we'd find ourselves still using Excel for data entry, record keeping, etc. I thought before, in 20 years I'm sure what I'm learning now would be useless because technology would be so advanced by that time but...I find myself here now watching this video. 😄

[@rhondajohn271]

This is EXACTLY what I needed for my business. Thank you so much!

[@youssefoumalek6599]

This video alone will probably get you into heaven. Brother, you are indeed an accessible source of knowledge! You have saved me. May God bless you and protect you from any harm.

[@amitywhite9678]

Hi, I do not generally add comments online, but this tutorial merit my comments. My wife and I want to start a rental business, we needed an invoice system, did not know how to do that. Your tutoral has helped significantly. than you. will watch the other videos .

[@aprillynsalgado2866]

THE BEST TUTORIAL EVER!!! Thank you so much for taking your time to do this.

[@ChesterTugwell]

You're very welcome!

[@nickpalmer327]

I have just used this tutorial and found it excellent. Just the right speed to work along and an excellent level of detail.

[@ZivaiMarangarire]

You, Sir, are a star. You have really been a great help. In two videos, I have found the answers to all I needed for automating my invoice.

[@nicholasmorgan9237]

This is one of the best presentations on how to use Microsoft excel I have seen , I have known for a long time that Exel can do many things but didn't know where to start. Chester explains things brilliantly , I got the invoice and macros working because thanx to Chester I understood what I was doing. Thank you very much for your professional contribution.

[@ChesterTugwell]

Nicholas - thanks for your generous comment.

[@j1sluvme]

I'm only 3 mins in the video and I'm already thanking you! Thank you!

[@JohannasHair]

Excel, Word and Corel Draw are such excellent software!

[@thelionspet]

Hi Chester, I just wanted to say a big thank you. You helped me a lot today, not on this subject, but on creating a numbered style list. Your explanation is wonderfully clear. Much appreciated. Angela

[@ChesterTugwell]

My pleasure, especially as you seem to be a cat lover 🐈‍⬛

[@thelionspet]

@@ChesterTugwell I am a cat lover indeed. Dogs too.. and the odd monkey lol

[@rezesmate]

What a great explanation and useful tutorial for automated invoice creation! Thank you Chester!

[@joedineley3853]

Hi Chester, You have made auto invoicing a very, "less stressful" experience. Thank you so much!😃

[@edgardlacle832]

Simply wonderful and clear teaching. This video is a game changer for me when it comes to using excel. Looking forward to viewing more of your videos

[@betyil4035]

chester i feel so smart thanks to you i could make it from scratch omg thank youuuu I love you you are an angel..

[@ChesterTugwell]

Glad I could help!

[@mattkriese7170]

I am so excited to have found this series. Legend.

[@CaswallJacobs]

Hi Chester, you're a great teacher. I've followed your series on how to create an invoice and I've benefitted a great deal. Needless to say, however, I'm still asking for more: How about tackling the aspect of printing the invoice, especially creating and printing an invoice that may span multiple pages??. This one is quite scarce on the internet. Thanking you in advance.

[@timarieb]

This really transformed my understanding of Excel! You are a great teacher!

[@ChesterTugwell]

Many thanks

[@MiuArtStudioUK]

You have made this boring job fun and easy thank you for this fantastic tutorial :)

[@koketsobaenahmakunyane6335]

Thank you so very much!!! This was was such a GREAT video, detailed and easy to follow.

[@rebinreji2192]

Hi Chester, thank you for this series of videos. I was looking for this for a couple of weeks, and I found this tutorial of yours today. It was clear and informative. Keep doing more! God Bless!

[@ChesterTugwell]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MarkytheSparky]

Great tutorial! I can’t wait to follow along the rest of the series as I look to replace FileMaker Pro for my invoicing

[@ChesterTugwell]

Have fun!

[@Lord_Commanda]

This video has been really helpful. Thank you so much

[@hunterschramel3393]

Thank you for these amazing videos! Quick question, what macro do I need to insert in order for me to input a price and have it automatically multiply it by a percentage (all in the same cell)?

[@WaveringSoul]

Extremely easy to understand video.. Thanks for sharing it with us..

[@MrNaturalcure]

Learned a lot you are an awesome person and teacher

[@shindran]

i liked this video. It really helped me understand how I can make my tasks more efficient. Thank you for taking the time.

[@hezekiahtom5265]

Man this is really beautiful and an eye opener

[@dqforever5]

Those who may be having trouble using the F3 key on Mac..you can simply type the name you saved... just place an equal sign first.

[@francesfletcher9180]

THANK YOU< Chester! Super helpful. I spent the entire day working on an invoice with customer list and item list dropdowns. This was unfamiliar territory and I could not have accomplished this without this most excellent tutorial. Thank you!

[@mrsbpottsdesigns]

This was very helpful! Thank you. I wondered on how to do this. Your video made it so much easier for me to do our business invoices. 😀

[@ChesterTugwell]

Glad it was helpful!

[@iandsouza3289]

This was superb! Apart from a very basic knowledge I am not at all adept at Excel. However, thanks to your extremely simple and clear instructions, creating my Invoice was a piece of cake. Thank you so much! Now I'm tempted to move on to try and get the macros... biting off more than I can chew maybe?... ah well, nothing ventured nothing gained! LOL!!

[@Nickyscrafts]

You've gained a new subscriber! I am new to Excel and am intrigued and overwhelmed with all the possibilities and project ideas. Your calm demeanor and clear instructions make this project easy to understand and follow. Thank you!

[@aqwalezareen2994]

Extremely informative. The quite useful technique for designing Invoice Template

[@shariqmqureshi]

Mr. Chester, I learned a lot from your video but just one thing I'd like to add. I think you forgot to add the multiply formula in the VAT column. As it will only calculate only a single VAT item no matter what the quantity is. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[@colinstobbart599]

Great video but yes you are right I was about to say the same

[@lynneatkins5411]

So easy to follow although paused and replayed a lot many thanks

[@Ruriraia]

Thank you! Just subscribed you because of this helpful video, hope you keep guide us in excel 😊

[@hollyhnin]

Thank you for your sharing. That's so easy to learn and great invoice.👍☺

[@ryanbennett8524]

This is super helpful and there's nothing else like it that I have found. Truly the answer to my prayers. Quick question - I have many different types of addresses from companies in different countries. Sometimes I will have a blank address box for Address 4 and Address 5 for example. Right now it's displaying a zero - how do I make the zeros just appear as blank cells if they do not refer to part of an address?

[@lotelenishikulo2386]

You have done magic there, thank you so much. 😊

[@louiekiryakos2899]

You Are Number One. Thank you Very Much

[@jimcampbellphotography1515]

Excellent video, many thanks. Fantastic and very easy to follow.

[@SssvcreationsAu2015]

I love how you explain things that make it easy to follow. I am wanting to create an invoice for my husbands business that is super easy to use which actually means I am unable to do a Drop down menu. My Husband is in the Automotive industry and some of his customers have more than 1 car so my way of thinking was if I could type the Rego number into the field and all relevant information shows up on the invoice. My question is how can I go about that?

[@malikdewangso2621]

it is very simple to understand and follow the guidance. thank

[@waleedalbuamer844]

Great video man! You're the best. I cannot thank you enough! I mean with this, I'm going to ask the company to drop TALLY PRIME and drop the Company Server and work on this. It's good and effective, have you made a video to link this invoice to store inventory? If not, then you definitely should.

[@wayneedmondson1065]

Great demonstration! Thanks Chester!!

[@darlingtondlipenga8145]

This is good work. I just had a challenge with the camera

[@Juliusstarcraft]

Top tier stuff mate! Srsly saved me massive headaches, cheers!

[@detectivethinker3637]

This is so useful! I would definitely need this skill in my next job. It took me a while to grasp, but I am satisfied with my overall result. I have been trying out things whilst you were explaining. You are a star!

[@ChesterTugwell]

Glad it was helpful!

[@EnigmaFarmer]

Chester, thank you very much for this series on creating an Invoice, it has been so so helpful, I have followed all the videos and am now using this for my small business, you are a star. Just one question, is there a way that when i select an item from my popdown box in description, the price can be populated at the same time. Thank you again

[@melaniehargrave3939]

Absolutely fantastic tutorial !!!

[@nezmaf]

Looking forward even to meeting you if you ever came to Dubai

[@shafqatpervezkhan]

Very good job, great way to explain.

[@annettekruger499]

Excellent tutorial, easy to understand. Thank you so much. Ps. Any possibility for adding Customer statements.

[@AJ-nm9gb]

concise and beautiful.....! good job mate

[@adriennegolembo3982]

Great video, I am a beginner and this has been extreme useful thank you. Your manner and speed is spot on and you make it very easy to follow the tutorial. THANK YOU.(One observation, your vat calculation is incorrect. It should be 20% of I19 not G19. ) I am looking to create a document which is specifically to track complaints to the council so need a unique number for this as well as a link to email exchanges. I will use what I have learned in this tutorial to do as much as I can however do you have a tutorial for this type of document please

[@kellysmith533]

Such a fantastic walkthrough and explanation. Thank you for taking the time to do this. On a side note, this template that you have shared for Excel is there a way that I would be able to convert this into Google Sheets without loosing the macro/automated actions? Thank you in advance.

[@carlynwright8968]

This is wonderful! Do you have a tutorial for generating an invoice based on table of data where one vendor may have multiple line items and one may only have one line item, and how to merge them into one invoice based on something like a purchase order or reference number?

[@craigallan4322]

Very informative and useful. Thanks Chester

[@dany28ro]

Hi Chester... great work on the spreadsheet template. Just a quick comment (hopefully a constructive one)... when you calculated the VAT in the table, you calculated the VAT amount only for 1 item. It should either be multiplied by the nr of items in the table or resolved in the VAT Total.

[@ChesterTugwell]

Yep, school boy error, I fixed that on the download some time ago, but thanks for pointing out.

[@samriley-stock6005]

This video has been a huge help! Very easy to follow as well. One weird thing though is when I go onto my Visual Basic application, it is all in German? I've gone into options, language and all my preferences are in English and I can't change it to English? Any help from comments or from yourself would be much appreciated!

[@Frank-si2jd]

Hello Chester, thanks for this very nice tutorial! I'm actually copying this Invoice template, which looks very convenient. I did however, found a small error in your explanation on the calculations. In minute 21 you are copying the total of the VAT's column but these are actually VAT's of 1 unit! Not for all 6 of them. You will need another calculation there! The solution: =SUM(I19:I35)*0,20 (total of exc vat * 20%)

[@ChesterTugwell]

Yep, that has already been fixed in the downloadable template.👍👍👍

[@lasseberg8457]

Simply brilliant!

[@mojotramp]

That’s amazing very good and clear to follow thank you,

[@jacquesdailey4700]

Rookie question with reference to the customer dropdown: Is there a simple way to grab a customer from the customer list, when the list grows to more than a few dozen customers? I imagine scrolling down the list would become problematic. Thank you for the video; Quite helpful.

[@steveharvey6841]

I have to say that your video's are excellent, how about adding a quote/cost estimate facility to your automated excel invoice, I.E. make a quote, customer approves, push a button and invoice is genererated from quote data

[@mahanteshgidnavar0008]

Thank you Sir.. Well explained, and Great work

[@mak4142]

These vidios are awesome. When you create a new invoice it clears all the formulas how do you stop this happening? or have i missed a step?

[@allseasonsvacationrentalll9377]

Hello thank you from that video I would really need to use that., I tried to download the file however I have a MacBook Air and it did not copy the formulas ;( is there a way you can do that template for excel for MacBooks. Thank you!!!

[@dearvlogn]

Thank very much for these content 🙏🏽

[@denisebuzzelli3755]

Hi Chester. Question - in the description area, is there a way to merge the invoicing information in from another tab in the workbook? I have a "recording sheet" where I list orders as they come in, so I may have the same customer listed 30 times between other customers. Is there a way to pull in the billing details for just that customer in the description table?

[@Zanazher]

Thanks, its working perfectly, only i want to use 9% and 21% tax, do u have a video about that?

[@evelynvanzyl2703]

Hi, I like your invoice system that you have created. Is there a possibility that you can incorporate a credit, debit note and quotation to this system?

[@powerflex500]

I followed this tutorial step by step until I reached the formula tab to change the name on column J but my version on excel doesn't have a "Name Manager". It only has "Define Name" and Create from Selection". So that is far as I have gotten. Any suggestions as to why there is no option for "Name Manager on my version of Excel. Thanks.

[@komailworld3601]

thank you so much really helpful

[@aimedia4x]

Enjoyed your video thank you

[@musclemoversfitnessltd6252]

I need some help, I am getting stuck by 16:21, reason being it continues to tell me there's an error in making a new formula, any suggestions? i tried adding a comma as suggested by the computer but it does not seem to work

[@kayephillips5238]

🙃I have beeen teaching myself how to do an automated Invoice quite successfully, in no small part due to your fantastic tutorials, for the most part everything as worked without a hitch, thank you I have struck 2 problems for the want of a better term, 1st, when I enter a new customer into the customer list it appears to be outside the table, I have got around this by clicking on the bottom of the lowest right cell and dragging it down so it adds the selected rows to the table 2nd, I used the first row in the customer list as a message i.e. Click here to select the customer --> the arrow points at the drop down button, but when I print & save the invoice it saves the customers name and does not return to the click here message as the customer.

[@frederickmadrigal403]

Amazing! Any chance to have this tutorial using Google Sheets? It would be really great.

[@user-ge2ox7lg2q]

Thank you. I've learned a lot already. In the United States, our address use a city, state, and zipcode separated by comas all in one line. How can I or can you point me in the direction of how to recall these from the Address 3, 4 and 5 fields and write them to the invoice in the city, state, zipcode format?

[@tararead2818]

Great video thanks. My only problem now is when I haven't got a full address for certain clients and rather than a blank space it inserts a zero. How can I get it to just leave a blank cell when the address column doesn't contain data - or is that not possible?

[@HitRunTX]

Outstanding man!

[@shemustnotbenamed]

Thank you so much for this❤

[@shaheryarahmad9685]

Hey this video helped me a lot in many ways and I am very grateful for this lesson but can you tell what if we just want to change the invoice number and all data of consignee and description etcetera shows up. Can you help in this regard. I will be very grateful