Freelancing on SnapLedger · UAE · Lesson 2 of 6

Invoicing your clients

1:21 · Captions: English, Arabic, French and Chinese.

Most freelancers make invoices in a word processor: numbered by hand, VAT worked out on a calculator, and a copy lost somewhere in a folder. In this lesson, Nadia bills a client from SnapLedger instead.

What you'll learn

  • Upload your VAT certificate
  • Bill a client from the Invoice and PO Center
  • Issue a tax invoice in one step

Step by step

  1. Your VAT certificate — First, her VAT certificate. From it, SnapLedger knows she charges VAT, from which day, and when her returns fall due.
  2. A new invoice — Her invoices live in the Invoice & PO Center. She starts a new one.
  3. Your client — She writes it in English for this client, a media company in Dubai, and adds its tax registration number, so the invoice is a proper tax invoice.
  4. The work and the VAT — Then the work she did and her fee. SnapLedger works out the VAT and the total for her.
  5. Issued — She issues it. The invoice carries her name and tax number, her client's, the VAT and the total, numbered and dated for her, and filed in her vault.
  6. Your client, saved — One tap saves the client to her customer book, ready for the next invoice.

No templates, no calculator, no numbering by hand: her invoice goes out right the first time. Next, her receipts and her bank statement.