Generate PDF invoices for your customers in laravel

Quick question: Are multi-page invoices properly handled? I mean, what happens if there is a large number of line items, that don't fit on a single page?

I would expect the following:

• Page number (x out of y) on each page
• Subtotals on top of each page (except on first page, of course)
• Totals only on last page
• Optional header/footer on consecutive pages

Thanks a lot!

The big issue with dompdf is that it is slow as hell on bigger installations and images. Rendering an invoice takes about 30 seconds per page. (Logo and a bootstrap table)

As you are using a single Class file where you do the actual PDF it shouldn't be a big deal adding another generator in there. I'm currently evaluating a few choices to see which ones actually improve speed.

Hi, I was trying to generate pages in the same document, but I don't know how to go about doing this. I have tried using two make();but it didn't work is there any fix you can offer

The addition of that template variable to specify a custom template broke PDF generation for anyone who already had this package in use, since we didn't expect to have to specify a template.

This PR seeks to set a sensible default for that variable based on the previously recommend location of the default invoices template.

Great lib, but I've encountered on a problem that putting custom template is impossible since blade lookup only happens within library scope. edit: current workaround is to clone PHP class into project and pass to it name of template (since class is in project scope, it works just fine ;)

I have a requirement to generate invoices with and without VAT, but I can't find the exact way to achieve this as the example does not show this.

Do you define differnet tax rates in the config file ?

'tax_rates' => [
    [ 'name'      => 'VAT', 'tax'       => 20, 'tax_type'  => 'percentage', ],
 [ 'name'      => 'noVAT', 'tax'       => 0, 'tax_type'  => 'percentage', ],
  ],

and then when you make an invoice, how exactly do you define what tax rate to use ?

$invoice = \ConsoleTVs\Invoices\Classes\Invoice::make()
                ->addItem(......)
                ->number(.....)
               ->tax_rates('VAT') ??????????????????? or  ->tax(false) or ?????

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

I am testing this amazing plugin and trying to figure out if I can pass a custom argument in addItem method in order to import images in cells.

Does anyone have implemented that?

Is the library capable of handling different tax rates for each product? In Germany, we have two rates (7% and 19%) for different kinds of products.

Can i show

• the tax class for each line item on the invoice?
• total tax amount for each class separately?

Thanks in advance!

The total price calculation breaks in here (it's something to do with bcmul) If the inputs to the method are:

$name = 'blah';
$price = '8,333.325';
$ammount = 1; 
$id = '';
$this->decimals is the default (2)

The output will return 0.00

public function addItem($name, $price, $ammount = 1, $id = '-')
  {
      $price = number_format($price, $this->decimals);

      $this->items->push(Collection::make([
          'name'       => $name,
          'price'      => $price,
          'ammount'    => $ammount,
          'totalPrice' => number_format(bcmul($price, $ammount, $this->decimals), $this->decimals),
          'id'         => $id,
      ]));

      return $this;
  }

BTW amount is mispelt here 😄

The due date can be editable on each invoice. The due date can be set to null, so no due date appears on invoice. The default due date is set to 3 months.

The save() method saves it in the default disk in the Storage facade. It would be nice being able to specify which disk you want to save in a project with multiples (e.g Storage::disk('s3')...).

I can send a PR to add an array of options to the save() method to take that in consideration (or any other better suggestions to handle this case).

I'm getting this error:

Type: RuntimeException

Message: A facade root has not been set.

Filename: /homepages/6/d487641550/htdocs/estaxi/vendor/illuminate/support/Facades/Facade.php

Line Number: 258

Backtrace:

File: /homepages/6/d487641550/htdocs/estaxi/vendor/consoletvs/invoices/Classes/PDF.php
Line: 57
Function: __callStatic

File: /homepages/6/d487641550/htdocs/estaxi/vendor/consoletvs/invoices/Classes/Invoice.php
Line: 378
Function: generate

File: /homepages/6/d487641550/htdocs/estaxi/vendor/consoletvs/invoices/Classes/Invoice.php
Line: 425
Function: generate

File: /homepages/6/d487641550/htdocs/estaxi/application/views/wallet/withdrawdata.php
Line: 30
Function: show

I'm using the example code:

 $invoice = \ConsoleTVs\Invoices\Classes\Invoice::make()
                ->addItem('Test Item', 10.25, 2, 1412)
                ->addItem('Test Item 2', 5, 2, 923)
                ->addItem('Test Item 3', 15.55, 5, 42)
                ->addItem('Test Item 4', 1.25, 1, 923)
                ->addItem('Test Item 5', 3.12, 1, 3142)
                ->addItem('Test Item 6', 6.41, 3, 452)
                ->addItem('Test Item 7', 2.86, 1, 1526)
                ->addItem('Test Item 8', 5, 2, 923, 'https://dummyimage.com/64x64/000/fff')
                ->number(4021)
                ->with_pagination(true)
                ->duplicate_header(true)
                ->due_date(Carbon::now()->addMonths(1))
                ->notes('Lrem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.')
                ->customer([
                    'name'      => 'Èrik Campobadal Forés',
                    'id'        => '12345678A',
                    'phone'     => '+34 123 456 789',
                    'location'  => 'C / Unknown Street 1st',
                    'zip'       => '08241',
                    'city'      => 'Manresa',
                    'country'   => 'Spain',
                ])
                ->show('demo');```

Description

I want to publish the configurations files, but I did not see any command I can copy/paste to do so.

Expected behavior

I can see some instructions to generate and customize the configuration files.

Actual behavior

No instructions in the documentation to customize the configuration files.