markdown-invoicer

invoice-ninja

Simple invoice generator

Note: This module is not related to the PHP/Laravel invoicing site Invoice Ninja or its GitHub repository.

Getting Started

npm install invoice-ninja

Example Usage

var fs = require('fs');
var Invoice = require('./index.js');

today = new Date();
due = new Date()
due.setDate(today.getDate() + 14);

input = {
  currencyFormat: "£%d",
  invoice_number: 1421,
  date_now: today.toDateString(),
  date_due: due.toDateString(),
  from_name: 'nCrazed',
  client_name: 'Client Inc.',
  items: [
    {
      description: 'Freebie',
      quantity: 1,
      rate: 0,
      amount: 0
    }
  ]
};

var invoice = new Invoice();
invoice.generatePDFStream(input).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('invoice.pdf'));

The above code would create a pdf file that looks like this:

Options

Optional absolute paths to your custom template and/or css files.

options.baseTemplate

Type: String

Default: template.md

options.rowTemplate

Type: String

Default: row.md

options.cssPath

Type: String

Default: bootstrap.css

Input

All but currencyFormat are optional.

input.currencyFormat

Type: String

Format string for currency values. It's passed to util.format as the first argument and should include the currency symbol and the %d placeholder.

input.invoice_number

Type: String

input.date_now

Type: String

input.date_due

Type: String

input.subtotal

Type: Number

input.tax

Type: Number

input.shipping

Type: Number

input.paid

Type: Number

input.balance

Type: Number

input.from_name

Type: String

input.from_street

Type: String

input.from_city

Type: String

input.from_county

Type: String

input.from_post_code

Type: String

input.from_country

Type: String

input.client_name

Type: String

input.client_street

Type: String

input.client_city

Type: String

input.client_county

Type: String

input.client_post_code

Type: String

input.client_country

Type: String

input.items

Type: Array

Each element of the array represent a single item.

input.items.description

Type: String

input.items.quantity

Type: String

input.items.rate

Type: Number

input.items.amount

Type: Number