[[!meta title="Find Your (In)voice: Emacs for Invoicing"]] [[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2021 Bala Ramadurai"]] [[!inline pages="internal(2021/info/invoice-nav)" raw="yes"]] # Find Your (In)voice: Emacs for Invoicing Bala Ramadurai Ye Freelance warriors, please lend me your I/O devices for 5 minutes. Your time is your money! Do you find it a pain to generate an invoice, record the details into your accounting software and keep track of taxes and payments? You are not alone, I found the whole invoice thingy to be extremely painful. But worry not, Emacs comes to our rescue. My talk will give you a basic intro on how to use org mode, some embedded python code and file jugglery to generate stylistic and professional invoices. What you will learn during the session: - How to track your freelance time using orgmode - How to create the basic infrastructure for invoice generation - How to generate the invoice - How to manage multiple clients - How to enter the finance details into your accounting software - How to track invoice payments We will use the following packages: - Emacs+orgmode (duh?) - yasnippet - python layer (I use spacemacs, so whatever is the equivalent in your config) - Some unnecessary Shakespearean references [[!inline pages="internal(2021/info/invoice-schedule)" raw="yes"]] [[!inline pages="internal(2021/info/invoice-nav)" raw="yes"]]