Invoice generator for tracked time

Turn your hours into a professional invoice — line items, payment terms, a pay-online link, and a branded PDF. Free with just your email, and the whole invoice lives in a shareable link.

Timesheet to invoice in three steps

A timesheet records the hours; an invoice gets you paid for them. Add each piece of work as a line item — description, hours, and rate — and the generator totals them, applies your payment terms, and produces a PDF your client can act on. Paste a Stripe or PayPal link and the invoice carries a "pay online" callout so the client can settle it without a follow-up email.

Need the hours first? Add them up with the billable hours calculator or grab a weekly timesheet template.

What belongs on an invoice for hourly work

An hourly invoice needs five things: who is billing (your name and contact), who is being billed (the client), an invoice number and issue date, payment terms (net 7, net 30, or due on receipt), and itemized line items showing hours times rate. A payment link shortens time-to-payment more than any other single element — invoices with a way to pay get settled faster than invoices that only state a total.

If the client goes quiet after the due date, the next step is a polite past-due reminder — leave your email in the reminder box and we will handle the follow-up for you.

Manual invoices vs invoices that fill themselves

This generator works because you already know the hours. The friction is remembering them accurately two weeks later. Automatic time tracking records your work as it happens and turns approved entries into invoices — with saved clients, Stripe payment links, and client reminders — so the invoice writes itself while you do the work.

Frequently Asked Questions

Enter your line items — a description, hours (like 7.5 or 7:30), and your hourly rate — and this generator totals them into an invoice you can download as a PDF. Add your client name, payment terms, and a payment link so the client can pay online.

Yes. There is no account, no sign-up, and no limit — just your email to unlock the PDF download. The invoice is encoded in the page URL, so you can bookmark or share it, and the PDF is generated in your browser — only your email is stored.

Yes. Paste any payment link — a Stripe payment link, PayPal, or your own checkout URL — and it is printed on the invoice as a 'pay this invoice online' callout so the client can settle it directly.

Both mean seven and a half hours. This generator accepts either format and multiplies the total by your hourly rate — 7.5 hours at $150/hr is a $1,125 line item.

Leave your email in the reminder box and we will handle past-due follow-up — free, with no account. Automatic client reminders are built into Rize invoicing for tracked teams.

No. The full invoice is encoded in the page link — use 'Copy share link' to save or share it. Opening the link restores every field exactly as you left it.

A timesheet records hours worked for payroll or records. An invoice bills a client for those hours: it lists line items, rates, a total due, payment terms, and a way to pay. Use a timesheet to track, an invoice to get paid.

Yes. Rize tracks your work in the background and turns approved time entries into invoices with Stripe payment links and automatic client reminders — no manual hour entry. Start a free trial to try it.

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Build an invoice once, or let Rize build every invoice for you. Rize tracks your hours automatically and turns them into payable invoices — no manual entry.