Creating InvoicesPro
Generate professional invoices from your tracked time.
Overview
TeeckIn generates invoices directly from your time entries. Select the entries you want to bill, customize the invoice details, and export to PDF or mark as sent.
Pro Feature
Creating an Invoice
- 1Go to Billing page
- 2Select entries to include (check boxes or "Select All")
- 3Click Create Invoice
- 4Review and customize invoice details
- 5Click Generate
Invoice Details
Customize these fields on each invoice:
Assigned automatically from your numbering pattern when the invoice is sent. See Document Numbering below.
Date the invoice is issued. Defaults to today.
When payment is due. Defaults to 30 days from issue.
Auto-filled from linked topic. Edit to change recipient.
Each time entry becomes a line. Edit descriptions if needed.
Additional text (payment instructions, thank you, terms).
Optional tax rate to add to the subtotal.
Line Items
Each selected time entry becomes an invoice line item:
| Description | Hours | Rate | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dashboard redesign - homepage | 4.5 | $95 | $427.50 |
| Dashboard redesign - analytics | 3.0 | $95 | $285.00 |
| Total | $712.50 | ||
Tip
Editing Linked Time (drafts)
The Time Entries (or Work detail, on a quote-based invoice) section lists the tracked time linked to the invoice. While the invoice is a draft, use Edit time entries to add or remove linked time — pick from your unbilled entries, or uncheck one to unlink it.
Drafts only
Supplements
Supplements are extra charges on top of an invoice's base — a flat fee, expenses, or extra tracked time billed by the hour. They appear in their own section on the invoice and PDF, separate from the base amount.
While an invoice is still a draft, open it and use to:
- Add free-form supplement lines (description, quantity, unit price).
- Attach unbilled tracked time as a priced supplement (hours × rate).
- Remove any supplement you added.
Drafts only
Tip
Invoices from a Quote
When you convert an accepted quote into an invoice, the invoice mirrors the quote's fixed price. The invoice detail page shows a “Created from quote” link back to the original quote, and the invoice PDF prints a “Ref. quote”line — so both you and your client can trace an invoice to the deal it came from.
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Invoice Actions
After creating an invoice:
- Download PDF — Get a professional PDF to email or print
- Mark as Sent — Record that you've sent it to the client
- Mark as Paid — When payment arrives, mark it paid
- Cancel Invoice — Issue a credit note that reverses a sent/paid invoice (see below). Drafts are simply deleted instead.
Cancelling an Invoice (Credit Notes)
Once an invoice is sent it has a number and becomes part of your legal sequence — it can no longer be edited or deleted. To correct or undo it, you issue a credit note (avoir) that reverses it.
- 1Open the sent or paid invoice
- 2Click Cancel Invoice
- 3Confirm — a credit note is created with its own number
What happens: the invoice is marked Cancelled, a credit note documents the reversal (its amount nets the invoice to zero in your totals), and the invoice's tracked time returns to unbilled so you can re-invoice it correctly.
Why you can't just delete it
Invoice Status
Document Numbering
Invoice numbers are assigned automatically and sequentially. Configure the format under Billing → Settings → Numbering, with a separate sequence for invoices, credit notes, and quotes.
Numbers are assigned when you send
Build a pattern from these tokens (everything else is kept verbatim):
{YYYY}/{YY}— year of the issue date{MM}/{DD}— month / day{seq}/{seq:N}— the counter, zero-padded to N digits
Example: F {'{MM}'}-{'{YYYY}'}-{'{seq:3}'} produces . Choose whether the counter resets . Choose whether the counter resets, yearly, or monthly — a resetting pattern must include the matching date token (e.g. monthly needs {'{MM}'} and a year), or numbers would repeat.
Tip
Not legal advice
Viewing Past Invoices
- 1Go to Billing page
- 2See all invoices with status and amounts
- 3Use filters to find specific invoices by client, status, or date
- 4Click any invoice to view details or update status