How to Customize Invoice PDF Template

With a Timely account, you have the flexibility to customize and edit your invoice PDF templates, allowing you to enhance communication with your customers. By sending personalized email purchase information, you can showcase your brand’s unique voice and style while ensuring that all crucial data is shared. In this post, we will guide you on how to customize invoice PDF templates.

1. Invoice Overview

Invoices are essential documents generated whenever someone makes a purchase. With respect to events, invoices are issued when a customer completes a ticket purchase. If the purchase happens to be online, customers receive an email (ticket/RSVP template) containing the corresponding invoice PDF and tickets. 

With Timely Event Ticketing Software, you can personalize your invoice PDF template by modifying the header, body, footer, and customizing the available dynamic fields. This guide provides an overview of how to edit these fields to create a comprehensive and reliable template.

2. Timely Standard Invoice PDF Template

Timely’s standard invoice PDF template has a clean design. The image below shows an example of an invoice pdf a customer will receive by email after purchasing an event ticket.

3. How to Edit Invoice PDF Templates

By customizing your Invoice PDF Template, you can add more information and branding to the document, ensuring your customers have all the details of their order. 

To edit Timely standard invoice template, follow these steps:

1. Go to your Timely account
2. On the left side, go to the Ticketing/RSVP menu. Then, click on the Templates tab

3. On the Templates page, go to Ticket and choose the Invoice PDF Template option. Click on the Edit button

4. This will open the Template Editor, where you can modify the template’s title, header, body, and footer. 

When rewriting your email template, make sure to include all the available dynamic fields as desired. It’s important to maintain the table structure for the data to be correctly displayed on the PDF. Any information placed outside the table will not be shown in the Invoice PDF.

Each ticket type generates a row in the table displaying the quantity, individual value, and total cost. If you remove this information, the corresponding column can also be omitted.

5. Adding Dynamic Fields to your Invoice Template

Dynamic fields are fields in Timely’s database you can use to display stored system information in your templates. For instance, if a customer adds their address while making a purchase, this information will be automatically populated in the dynamic field “Customer Address,” eliminating the need to enter it manually.

You can edit the following Dynamic Fields in your Invoice Template:

Field Code	Field Name	Description
calendarUrl	Calendar URL	The website address of the calendar where the tickets were purchased or RSVP’d.
currency	Currency	The currency of the ticket of the event.
customerAddress	Customer Address	Address informed by the buyer on the checkout page.<<Address L1>><<Address L2>><<City>> <<State>> <<Zip Code>><<Country>>
customerEmail	Customer Email	The email of the customer who purchased or RSVP’d.
customerFirstName	Customer First Name	The first name of the customer who purchased or RSVP’d.
customerLastName	Customer Last Name	The last name of the customer who purchased or RSVP’d.
eventDate	Event Date	The date and time of the event where the tickets were purchased or RSVP’d. It can be the event, instance or slot.
eventTitle	Event Title	The title of the event where the tickets were purchased or RSVP’d.
invoiceItems	Invoice Items	The list of order items and details.Title / ValueDescription / <<ticketName>> or <<rsvpName>>Quantity / <<quantity>>Unit price / <<ticketPrice>> <<currency>>Amount / <<quantity>> x <<ticketPrice>> <<currency>>
orderNumber	Order #	The number of the order. The same on the Ticket/Invoice screen.
orderDate	Order Date	Date from the purchase transaction.
orderDiscount	Order Discount	The order total discount.
orderSubtotal	Order Subtotal	The subtotal order amount.
orderTax	Order Tax	The total amount of taxes.
orderTotal	Order Total	The invoice amount.
taxInformation	Tax Information	Tax account and Tax Address.TAX Id: <<tax account>><<Address L1>><<Address L2>><<City>> <<State>> <<Zip Code>><<Country>>
taxInvoiceContent	Tax Invoice Content	The Tax Invoice Content.
taxTitle	Tax Title	The Tax Name defined when the tax was created.
taxRate	Tax Rate	Tax rate related to the ticket.

When you use a dynamic field, the order/purchaser information will replace the dynamic fields on square brackets. You can add these dynamic fields multiple times throughout your template, if you wish.

6. Preview, Save, Cancel or Restore Your Changes

After you have finished editing your Template, you will find the following buttons at the bottom of the page:

• Preview PDF: This button allows you to open the PDF you just edited and see how it will appear in your users’ email before saving it.

• Save: Click on this button to save the changes you made in your template.

• Cancel: Use this button to cancel the changes and close the editing tab.

• Restore Default: If you want to revert your template to its original version, click on this button. You can perform this action at any time. To confirm the restoration of your template to the original version, you must click the save button.

Need Additional Help?

For further guidance and support, please visit our Help Center. If you have any inquiries or need assistance, don’t hesitate to contact our customer success team by opening a support ticket from your Timely account’s dashboard.

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