If you often invoice your customers for the same product or service, you can create a price list item in FreeAgent to save you having to manually enter that item each time.
Price list items can be added to both invoices and estimates.
Creating a price list item
Click Settings at the top right, then click Price List.
If this is your first price list item, click Start My Price List, or if not, click Add New Price List Item.
A Price List pop-up box appears. You'll notice this looks very similar to the box you'd use to create a new item on an invoice or estimate, so fill it in in exactly the same way.
The only difference is that you need to give the item a name or a code in the top box. This is what lets you distinguish between the different items on your price list; it won't appear on your invoices or estimates.
Quantity of a price list item
It's also important to note how the quantities work.
For example, here I charge my customers for a quarter's worth of management consultancy.
The quantity is 3 because there are 3 months to a quarter, and I've put in the unit price for 1 month, because the unit is months.
Category and VAT
Choose the default income category that you want sales of this item to go into, and the default VAT rate that's used for sales of this item - standard, reduced, or none.
Adding a price list item to an invoice
When I come to invoice my customer, I'd choose to add the item from a price list.
FreeAgent then automatically pre-populates the item boxes from the price list.
If I wanted to invoice the customer for 2 quarters at once, i.e. 6 months, I would change the quantity, like this.
I could also change the income category and VAT rate for this particular sale.
FreeAgent allows you to choose the current standard VAT rate or the previous one, so you can charge the correct standard rate depending on the date of your invoice.
If once I've made changes to a price list item, I want to save that as a new price list item, I can.
For example, let's say I decide to invoice my customers for a monthly retainer instead of a quarterly one.
I'd change the quantity to 1 month, then tick the "Add this to your Price List" box, and put in the price list name or code.
Once I click Create and Finish, the price list item appears on the invoice just as any other item would, and you're then ready to continue creating and sending the invoice as normal.