Start a blank invoice when you want a clean document rather than an edited demonstration. Open the creator through the product homepage, choose the blank workflow and enter your own invoice number, parties, dates and items. Treat the initially displayed values as starting values to review, not as verified details for your business.
A blank draft reduces the risk of leaving someone else’s example data behind, but it does not remove the need for preparation. Have the recipient’s billing instructions, your agreed prices and the confirmed tax treatment available first. The first-invoice preparation guide explains the surrounding workflow; this article concentrates on the first entry and the checks that keep a blank draft coherent.
Open a clean working document
You can start with the browser-based invoice creator and choose the blank invoice option. The current product does not require an account. Its blank workspace includes one line item and initial invoice and date values, so you can see the document structure before filling it. The country context and currency also begin with defaults that must be reviewed.
If you already have unsaved edits open, do not use the new-invoice control as a way to navigate. Save on the device or download an editable draft first. Replacing the document discards the current working values after the replacement is confirmed. This behaviour is different from creating a new saved invoice in an account-based dashboard, which this version does not provide.
Check that the seller and buyer fields are empty. If you see fictional company names and two example service lines, you are looking at the sample workflow instead. Either replace the sample deliberately or begin a new blank document. Do not mix half an example with half your own record.
Review defaults before typing the parties
Replace the initial invoice number with the number allocated in your own records. The application cannot know the last reference used by another accounting package or an older spreadsheet. Do not interpret the absence of a duplicate-number warning as evidence that a number is available.
Review the issue date and due date independently. A draft may initially show today’s date in both places, but your agreed payment terms may require something else. Confirm the currency before entering prices; changing the currency selection later changes the amount label, not the economic value through an exchange-rate conversion.
The country context records your selected context. It does not determine the correct tax rate, create a country-specific invoice profile or add government submission rules. Treat it as one piece of descriptive information, alongside the separate seller and buyer country fields.
Add the first complete line
Enter the seller and buyer names and addresses from trusted records. Add applicable identifiers and contact information without guessing missing values. Then describe one actual item supplied, including enough information for the customer to match it to an agreement or delivery.
For example, a fictional editor might enter “Copy-editing: October product brochure”, quantity 3, unit “hour” and unit price EUR 60.00. The amount before tax and discount is EUR 180.00. That result confirms the arithmetic of the entered values; it does not establish that three hours were approved or that EUR 60 was the contracted rate.
Use a dot for decimal values. Quantities support up to four decimal places, while unit prices, discount percentages and tax percentages support two. Enter the confirmed tax category and rate rather than leaving a starting value in place because the line already produces a total. Add a tax reason where the selected category requires one.
Review the first draft before adding more
Read the live preview after completing the first line. Check the two parties, invoice reference, currency, description, quantity and amount. Fix a wrong assumption now, before repeating it across a longer document. For multiple lines, use the add-item control and repeat this review for the different units or categories involved.
A field check can identify missing required entries and certain invalid values. It cannot verify that the customer exists, that a bank account belongs to the seller or that your tax decision is correct. A warning about a missing field is a prompt to consult the source record, not an invitation to invent a value.
If you need to practise with a completed example first, the sample-data review workflow explains how to do so without carrying fictional details into a real invoice. Keep practice and production drafts distinguishable in your downloads.
Preserve the work and choose a suitable output
Save on this device stores a draft in the current browser profile only when you request it. Later edits are not automatically saved. An editable JSON draft is useful when the invoice is incomplete or when you want a file you can import again, but it contains private business information and needs appropriate handling.
Before final output, run the field checks, read the preview and compare the data with your preparation records. The current creator supports printing, browser Save as PDF where available, application JSON and line-items CSV. None is a verified standards-based e-invoice export. If the recipient requests a specific structured format, keep this draft as preparation data and complete the required mapping and validation in supporting software.