Purchase Photo

[Dolby]

As you know from the other thread, someone approached me and said I should take a photos at the show. He said I'd get R250.00 for 10 photos and he'd take R50.00 - which I'm cool with.

I took photos. put my copyright and watermark on them - and made them 50kb now. I sent through and they're up on Facebook .... with the first 'order' coming through. I'm told to invoice - and this where I'm lost :/

I'm not a company - I can simply download a template and send it in my personal name?
Do I forget the R250.00 figure and only put the R200.00 figure?
Do I take VAT off the R200.00 (ie R176 + VAT)?

I'm sure how to go about this :/

 

[Fudzy]

Have you got a VAT number?

 

[Dolby]

Nope?

I was just guessing, as invoice I've seen have VAT ...

So I can issue a normal invoice, no VAT at R200.00?

 

[AniV]

Anybody can issue an invoice. You don't have to be a company to issue an invoice.
You can issue an invoice in your own name instead of a company name.

You can also make up a name, like perhaps "Dolby2000 Photographic" and use that. It doesn't have to be a registered company or anything. You could put a damn unicorn on the invoice if you wanted to, and in Comic Sans write the amount underneath. That counts too.

I'm sure you could just take a regular invoice template and swop out the company details for your own details, drop the VAT number and put your preferred method of payment information on it. Voila. Invoice.

Edit: I recommend adding a section to the invoice where you explain that since they've purchased the images, they will receive <insert size and type of image> and that they may <redistribute/publish/post/copy/edit/burn> the images as long as they don't <sell them and make money/cut out your photographer stamp/eat them with tomato sauce> without contacting you and arranging permission. Or whatever your attribution/permission beliefs are.

 

[Fudzy]

Anybody can issue an invoice. You don't have to be a company to issue an invoice.
You can issue an invoice in your own name instead of a company name.

You can also make up a name, like perhaps "Dolby2000 Photographic" and use that. It doesn't have to be a registered company or anything.

You could put a damn unicorn on the invoice if you wanted to, and in Comic Sans write the amount underneath. That counts too.

I'm sure you could just take a regular invoice template and swop out the company details for your own details, drop the VAT number and put your preferred method of payment information on it. Voila. Invoice.

If he's invoicing a company he might need a VAT number, I'm not clued up at all but I put together a website for an organisation that required an invoice (with VAT number) so I issued the invoice using my dad's company (which is the family's surname so it was quite fitting )

 

[undesign]

If you're not a registered VAT vendor then there is no VAT on the invoice. Doesn't matter who you are invoicing.

 

[bwana]

If he's invoicing a company he might need a VAT number, I'm not clued up at all but I put together a website for an organisation that required an invoice (with VAT number) so I issued the invoice using my dad's company (which is the family's surname so it was quite fitting )

You only need a VAT number if you're VAT Registered.