# Google Sheets Invoice Generator: an invoice PDF for every order

> Turn a spreadsheet of orders into clean invoice PDFs automatically. One row per invoice, your branding on every one, filed in Google Drive without manual work.

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## At a glance

- **What it does:** Turn a spreadsheet of orders into clean invoice PDFs, one per row, filed automatically.
- **Category:** Documents. Also searched as: free invoice generator, invoice template, invoices from google sheets.
- **Free plan:** 15 workflow runs to try it (one time), 1 active workflow, up to 5 steps.
- **Paid plans:** 200 to 6,000 workflow runs a month and 3 to 50 active workflows, depending on the plan ([pricing](https://orshot.com/pricing.md)).
- Each successful run uses one workflow credit; idle checks for new rows are free.

- **Time to first render:** Half of new users who render do it within 14 minutes of signing up, and a quarter within 5 minutes.

## Steps

1. **Trigger:** On a schedule (daily)
2. **Data source:** Google Sheets
3. **Action:** Render template (PDF)
4. **Destination:** Google Drive

## How to set it up

1. **Pick an invoice template:** Start from an invoice template in the Orshot library or design your own in the studio with placeholders for client, items, amounts, and dates.
2. **Connect your orders sheet:** Connect the Google Sheet where orders or billable work is tracked. Each row becomes one invoice.
3. **Map columns to invoice fields:** Point template placeholders at your columns: client name, invoice number, line items, total, due date.
4. **Activate the schedule:** Orshot renders a PDF per row on your schedule and files them in Google Drive, ready to send.

## Templates for this workflow

- [Olive Editorial Design Studio A4 Invoice with Cormorant Aperture Wordmark, Tall Serif INVOICE Header and Cream Alternating Table Rows](https://orshot.com/templates/1073.md)
- [Minimal & Professional Invoice Template](https://orshot.com/templates/96-minimal-professional-invoice-template.md)
- [Green Themed Invoice Template](https://orshot.com/templates/101-green-themed-invoice-template.md)
- [Teal Header Professional Invoice with Itemized Table](https://orshot.com/templates/1146.md)

## When to use it

### PDF generation

- **PDF generation API:** automate PDF generation for invoices, reports, proposals and one-pagers from a template, multi-page. It works as an invoice generator API without maintaining an HTML to PDF API and its print CSS. ([more](https://orshot.com/solutions/pdf-generation-api.md))
- **Bulk certificate generator and Google Sheets to PDF:** one certificate, badge or ticket per attendee row, from Google Sheets or Airtable. ([more](https://orshot.com/integrations/no-code.md))

## How to run it

- **In the app:** open the workflow, connect your accounts, pick your template and activate it. It then runs on its trigger.
- **From an AI agent:** connect the Orshot MCP server (`https://mcp.orshot.com/mcp`) and ask your agent to create, run or check a workflow.
- **From the API:** the Workflows API (`POST https://api.orshot.com/v1/workflows/:id/run`) is available to the MCP server and on the Enterprise plan ([docs](https://orshot.com/docs/api-reference/workflow-run.md)).

## FAQ

### Can Google Sheets generate invoices automatically?

Not by itself. Sheets holds the data but cannot produce a designed PDF. This workflow connects your sheet to an Orshot invoice template and renders one PDF per row, on a schedule or whenever new rows appear.

### How do invoice numbers work?

Keep an invoice number column in your sheet, or derive one from the row. Whatever is in the column is what prints on the invoice, so your numbering scheme stays under your control.

### Can the invoice show line items?

Yes. Template fields map to columns, so you can lay out item descriptions, quantities, and amounts however your design needs. For highly variable line item counts, many teams render one summary invoice per order row.

### Is this a replacement for accounting software?

No, and it does not try to be. It replaces the manual step of turning rows you already track into presentable branded PDFs. If you bill from QuickBooks or Stripe, you likely do not need it; if you bill from a spreadsheet, you do.

### What do the finished invoices look like?

Whatever your template looks like: your logo, brand colors, fonts, and layout. Every invoice comes from the same design, so client number 3 and client number 300 get the same polish.

## Related workflows

- [Generate invoice PDFs from Airtable records](https://orshot.com/workflows/invoices-from-airtable.md)
- [Send a certificate for every form submission](https://orshot.com/workflows/certificates-from-google-forms.md)
- [Issue certificates for everyone on your list](https://orshot.com/workflows/certificate-generator.md)

## About Orshot

Orshot is an API for automated image, PDF and video generation from templates. Design a template once (or import it from Canva or Figma), then generate from data through the REST API, n8n, Make, Zapier, 46 integrations, or an AI agent over MCP (`https://mcp.orshot.com/mcp`, 97 tools), and publish to 15 social platforms.

25k+ users, about 106.5k renders a month · 0.9s median image render · 99.98% uptime · 100 free credits every month, paid plans from $39.

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- **Designs you already have:** canva bulk create, canva api, canva automation, figma automation
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- **AI agents:** content automation, automated content creation

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## Links

- [All workflows](https://orshot.com/workflows.md)
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