InvoiceTools
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Free marketing agency invoice and estimate templatesMake the value of
every campaign clear.

Create professional estimates, invoices and receipts
for strategy, creative and campaign work.

Create a marketing invoice
  • Professional templates
  • Easy to customize
  • U.S. ready (USD)

From brief to billed.

A simple path from idea to income.
Keep your projects, people and payments
moving forward.

  1. Brief

    Capture goals
    and get aligned.

  2. Scope

    Define work
    and pricing.

  3. Build

    Do the work
    and keep momentum.

  4. Invoice

    Turn progress
    into a professional invoice.

  5. Receipt

    Get paid and
    close the loop.

Campaign scope

A clear foundation for a successful project.

Campaign briefRiverton Collective
StrategyAudience, messaging, positioning,
key ideas.
CreativeCampaign concept, creative direction,
key deliverables.
ProductionDesign, copy, editing, asset production.
MediaMedia planning, placements, coordination.
ReportingFinal assets, performance summary,
next steps.

Clear objectives
lead to better work.

Define the scope
early to keep
everyone aligned.

Turn great work
into lasting client
relationships.

A clear scope
makes for a smoother
invoice.

Flexible pricing

Price the engagement your way.

Use our calculators to quickly price your work,
whether it's a one-time project or an ongoing retainer.

Project fees

For defined campaigns and deliverables.

Retainers

For ongoing creative partnerships.

Templates

Your marketing template studio.

Professionally designed. Easy to customize.
Get from draft to done, faster.

All 10 marketing agency invoice designs

Send a payment link with the invoice

Send payment link

ACH • card • Venmo • Cash App

Use your own payment method.

Keep it simple

Keep the commercial side clear.

A straightforward process from send to receipt.
Tracking is optional. Use what works for you.

  1. 01

    Send

    Share your invoice with your client.

  2. 02

    Open

    Your client can view it (tracking optional).

  3. 03

    Receipt

    Mark as paid when you receive payment.

Questions?

Frequently asked questions.

View all FAQs
Can I customize the marketing invoice template?

Yes. Add your agency's logo and details, rename the lines, set your own rates and totals in USD, and write your own terms. Nothing is locked, and the tools run in the browser with no signup to make and download a document.

Are these templates for U.S. businesses?

They are written U.S. first: dollar amounts, U.S. addresses and payment methods such as ACH, card, Venmo and Cash App. You can still change the currency wording and the tax line for work billed elsewhere.

Can I use my own payment method?

Yes. Unless you turn on Pay now with your own Stripe account, InvoiceTools does not process payments. You add your own payment link, such as PayPal, a Stripe link, Wise, Venmo, Cash App or your bank details, and the client pays you directly.

Is client tracking required?

No. Tracking is optional. You can download a PDF and send it yourself; if you choose a tracked link instead, you can see when the client opened it and mark it as paid.

Can I add my logo and terms?

Yes. Upload your logo, set your agency details, and write payment terms, a deposit note or a kill fee clause in the notes so the commercial side of the campaign is agreed in writing.

What should a marketing agency invoice include?

Your agency details and the client, an invoice number and dates, then a line for each part of the engagement: strategy, creative, production, media management and project coordination, with the amount for each. Close with the total in USD and your payment terms.

Can I create a campaign estimate?

Yes. Start with the estimate first, with the same lines you plan to bill, so the client approves the scope before the work starts. When it is approved, open the same lines as an invoice.

Can I list project fees and retainers?

Yes. Put a project fee on its own line and a monthly retainer on another, with the month named, so the client can see what is a one-time campaign cost and what recurs.

What should an agency invoice include?

Show the retainer for the month, any project fees such as strategy or creative, and the ad spend as a pass-through line, never blended into your fee. Name the deliverables and the reporting period so the invoice matches the contract and the monthly report. Larger clients will also want their purchase order number and the right billing contact on it.

How much should I charge for campaign strategy?

It depends on how many channels and audiences the plan covers, how much research and competitor review it needs, whether it includes messaging and a media plan, the size of the client, and whether you expect to run the campaign afterward. The generator opens that line at $1,200.00 so the invoice is not blank; replace it with your own fee.

How do I show ad spend separately from my fee?

Put ad spend on its own line at cost, marked as pass-through, with the retainer and any production above it. Mixing the two makes your fee look like a multiple of what it is and makes the invoice impossible to check against the platform's billing. If the client pays the platform directly, leave spend off the invoice and show it in the report instead.

Should I bill the retainer before or after the month?

Many agencies bill at the start of the month for that month's work, so you are not financing a client's campaign. If you front ad spend on your own card, bill it in advance or ask the client to add their own payment method to the ad account, so a slow payer never leaves you owing the platform. A recurring invoice handles the monthly fee.

What can I do when a client stops paying the retainer?

Your contract is the leverage, so spell out that work pauses after a set number of days overdue and that ownership of creative passes on payment. Pause campaigns billed to your own card, keep the client's ad accounts and pages accessible to them, and send a statement of the balance. Holding a client's accounts hostage tends to end in a worse dispute.

Do I charge sales tax on marketing services?

In many states marketing, advertising and consulting services are not taxed, but some states tax some of them, and printed materials or physical promotional products often are. Digital products and software you resell may also be taxable depending on the state. Keep printed and physical items on their own lines so tax applies to them alone, and check your state.

How do I bill a percentage-of-spend management fee?

Show the ad spend for the period, the percentage in your contract, and the resulting fee as its own line, so the client can check the arithmetic. Some agreements add a minimum monthly fee so a low-spend month still covers your time; if yours does, say which applied. Bill it after the month closes, once the platforms' figures are final.

Is this a marketing agency invoice template?

Yes. It is a marketing agency invoice template that handles a monthly retainer, project work and pass-through media spend on the same document without confusing the three.

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Give every campaign
a clear commercial finish.

Create a marketing invoice

What to include in an agency invoice

  • Retainer period and scope. The month the retainer covers and what it includes, such as channels managed and meetings, so the client can compare the fee with the contract.
  • Ad spend at cost. Media spend on search and social platforms, marked as pass-through and kept apart from your fee, so both figures can be checked separately.
  • How the fee was calculated. Whether your management fee is flat or a share of spend, with the spend figure it was calculated from, so the math can be checked.
  • Creative deliverables. The ads, videos or landing pages produced, with sizes and variations, so a request for more versions is clearly new work.
  • Hours outside the retainer. Extra strategy sessions, rush work or new campaigns billed hourly or as a project fee, so the monthly figure stays the same.
  • Third-party tools and assets. Stock images, fonts, software seats or paid tools bought for the client, billed at cost or with your markup stated.
  • Ownership of creative. Who owns the finished ads and when ownership transfers, often on payment, which matters if the client later moves to another agency.
  • Client PO and billing contact. The purchase order number and the accounts payable contact at the client, since larger companies may not pay an invoice they cannot match.

Made for the way marketing agencies work

  • The lines every retainer has

    Campaign strategy, ad management monthly, creative production, reporting. Pick marketing and they are already listed.

  • Spend and management fee, separately

    Ad spend and your fee on different lines. Clients who cannot see the split assume the worst about both.

  • Attach the report, get it approved

    The month's numbers next to the month's fee is what makes renewal a formality rather than a conversation.

  • Paid on the first

    A payment link on the monthly invoice, so the retainer does not become an accounts chase.

  • Retainers, planned once

    Same client, same monthly figure. Plan the run once with the recurring invoice planner, then send each invoice on its date.

  • The proposal becomes the invoice

    Pitched with a scope, billed against the same scope, so nobody rereads the proposal to check.