📄 Invoice Template

Writer/Content Invoice Template

Content creation invoice per word/article. Example: 10 blog posts @ $250 each = $2,500.

What a content writing invoice should set out

• Each piece by working title, with its word count or agreed rate basis
• The rate applied — per word, per piece, per hour — stated once and used consistently
• Revision rounds included, and any additional rounds charged
• Research, interviews or sourcing priced separately where they were substantial
• The rights granted: first use, exclusive, perpetual, and whether a byline applies
• Kill fee terms, if a commissioned piece was not run
• Your ABN, GST and payment terms

Rights are the part clients and writers remember differently

Most content disputes come down to reuse. A blog post commissioned for one site appears in an ebook, a newsletter and a paid ad, and the writer discovers it months later. Naming the licence on the invoice is the cheapest possible insurance, and it also makes a second sale possible — you cannot license again what you have already given away by silence.

• State what the fee buys: which channels, which territories, for how long
• Say whether the piece may be edited or re-headlined without approval
• If work is ghostwritten, note that no byline attaches — it changes the rate

Getting paid as a freelancer

• Quote your ABN or the client must withhold tax at the top rate
• Invoice on delivery, not on publication — publication dates slip and are not your risk
• Charge a deposit on long commissions from new clients

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