A free consultant estimate and quote template you fill in online rather than download and wrestle with in a word processor. This style opens in the quote generator instead of the invoice generator, so the header reads Quote and the date field is a valid-until date rather than a due date. Amber signals that a price is proposed, not yet due, which sets the right expectation before a client has agreed to the work. It is free with no account and no watermark, the totals calculate themselves, and the PDF is generated on your own device.
Quoting a project before it is confirmed
A quote is not an invoice with a different heading. It is a document that has to survive being forwarded, sat on for three weeks, and then compared against two others. That changes what belongs on it.
The most important field is the validity date, which is why this style opens in the quote generator, where the date field reads valid until rather than due. A quote without an expiry is an open-ended offer at today's prices, and consultants routinely find themselves held to a day rate they quoted eight months earlier. Thirty days is a normal window, and it also gives the client a reason to come back before it lapses.
Break the work into priced components rather than quoting one number for everything. A discovery phase, a delivery phase and a report priced separately let a client who cannot fund all three buy one of them, which is a sale a single figure does not give you. It also moves the comparison with competitors onto substance rather than price alone.
State what happens next in the notes: what triggers the start of work, whether a deposit is required, and what is explicitly not included. Scope disputes almost always trace back to something nobody wrote down at this stage.
This is one of 6 styles in the invoice templates gallery. None of them is a static file to download and edit: clicking through opens the real quotegenerator with this style's accent and example data already applied, so what you see above is what you get. Replace the example business, client and line items with your own, and your draft saves automatically in this browser as you type.
Not sure what the document itself has to contain? How to write an invoice covers the fields every invoice needs, and invoice requirements by country covers what is legally required where you are.