Please anyone help me, do I split the labour and material costs on an invoice?

Question

Can someone look up what the last invoice they received looked like, did it have labour seperate from material costs and also were the material costs split up into every little thing or was it more less lumped together? Like for a floor, furnace, new windows installed... anything? Please?

Answer 1

if you are doing the invoice for yourself to give to a customer then do it how you want.
if they already know what you charge for labor then its no big deal to seperate.
if you want to keep things private then combine.

there is no reason a person needs to know you paid 1500 for a furnace and are charging them 3000 total for an install, unless they are paying for the furnace. most materials have a list cost. its up to you if you want them to know it was cheaper

Answer 2

Break it down: total material cost, labor cost, tax on materials, total due. That should do it. That way they know you are not charging too much for labor. Most people don't know the cost of things. Alot of times, they even cushion the material costs if they got the materials cheaper, but charge the clients for market price.

Answer 3

With my cars the material and labor is seperate. The materials are often listed seperately, while the labor is just one total hour figure.

For my furnace there was the furnace and new flue pipe. And one total for the combined labor.

Answer 4

They should separate the invoice. Sales tax may have to be added to the material cost and not to labor.

Answer 5

Come, come sir, Mr MacShane made a genuine mistake as did the higher ups in the Labour party !

Answer 6

really depends on what kind of work you are doing...sometimes in construction the client doesn't need to know what you are charging in terms of labour...if you are doing a bunch of tasks then you will probably charge a lump sum for labour and not specific time cost and a client who is trying to cheap out will try to cut out one task and try to get you to reduce the labour portion as well...makes for one hell of a mess...small time reno it is best to charge as flat fee for certain tasks...materials and labour included...let a customer ask for the breakdown if they absolutely need it

Answer 7

I have them listed on bills both ways depends on the person.
price of material total or by line item and then the
price of labor
then tax
then the total

Answer 8

Yes they were split up and materials are all listed.

Answer 9

I'm sorry I cannot help. I am underage. Sorry.