https://www.jtdonn.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-04-30 https://www.jtdonn.com/blog/how-to-invoice-your-first-project monthly 0.5 2026-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976c84a839be067e3d2b97c/c8282852-b95c-474d-ab56-da32a8795584/Screenshot+2026-04-30+at+2.28.47%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Invoice Your First Project - Make it stand out This is the simplest invoice, straightforward for billing only your time, with an hourly rate. Or, if it’s a flat rate you might just have a line item for $XXX and then break out the meeting dates (if they want it that detailed) But in this example it’s easy to see how many hours are being billed and for what rate with a clear total. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976c84a839be067e3d2b97c/9a97e90f-15e6-40e5-8982-062da2a1671d/Screenshot+2026-04-30+at+2.31.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Invoice Your First Project - Make it stand out In this case, we’re billing not just for time, but for travel expenses because you traveled for a couple days. When you have expenses, it’s a good idea to break them out separately because they won’t be treated the same as labor in most cases. But even if they are treated equally, this makes it much easier for your client to see how much was incurred for each category. Generally speaking, this format is a good way to show these costs broken out. It’s clear that you’re charging for labor / time from 1/5-1/21 and then a trip on 1/30-1/31. Of course, include copies of the receipts with your invoice. And to make it even cleaner, combine the receipts into 1 file with the invoice. (on a mac, you can do this in Preview). Try not to send all the receipts as different files. From a professional standpoint, sending one PDF file is clean and straightforward. Or, at the very least send just 2 files: one with the invoice and one with all the expenses combined into one file. One of my client’s contractors sent 10 separate attachments; 1 was the invoice and the other 9 were receipts. All of it has to go into the payment system as one file, so I had to combine all the receipts with the invoice to make one PDF. This is tedious and really shouldn’t be something you expect your client to do for you. Again, we’re trying to organize everything so it’s as easy as possible for them to pay you! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976c84a839be067e3d2b97c/df93ae0f-fdda-49ee-b73a-862fdc51b8ad/Screenshot+2026-04-30+at+2.41.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Invoice Your First Project - Make it stand out This shows 2 separate projects and each project has it’s own set of hours. Your client might want to see how much time you spent on one project vs another, Since those might have separate budgets.. So this way they can easily see 5 hours were spent on Project 1 and 4 hours on Project 2. Also good to ask your client, do they need separate invoices for each project. If you can combine multiple projects on one invoice, this is a clean way to show exactly what you did for each one. The same would go for events. 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