/SmartBillify

Generate invoices intelligently

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🧾 SmartBillify

SmartBillify is a modest weekend project I've embarked on, aimed at generating PDF invoices with a touch of automation in Python.

🌟 Features

  • Generate PDF Invoices: Simple and clean invoice design.
  • Companies House Lookup: Verify company details in a jiffy. Green indicates validation, red indicates refusal of validation.
  • VAT Verification: Double-check VAT numbers with the HMRC API. Green indicates validation, red indicates refusal of validation.
  • Automated Due Date: Automatically calculates due date from the invoice date.

Example PDF: invoice_adjusted_INV12345.pdf Capture (1) (1)

🧾 SmartBillify

SmartBillify is a modest weekend project I embarked on, aimed at generating PDF invoices with a touch of automation in Python.

🌟 Features

  • Generate PDF Invoices: Simple and clean invoice design.
  • Companies House Lookup: Verify company details in a jiffy.
  • VAT Verification: Double-check VAT numbers with the HMRC API.
  • Automated Due Date: Automatically calculates due date from the invoice date.

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the following Python libraries:

  • fpdf: To design the PDF layout.
  • requests: To talk with external APIs.
  • uuid: To generate unique invoice numbers.
  • datetime: To handle dates.

How to Use

  1. Define the sender's and recipient's information.
  2. List down the items or services you're billing for.
  3. Call the generate_invoice_adjusted() function to produce your invoice in PDF format.

📚 Dependencies

  • fpdf
  • requests
  • uuid
  • datetime

📌 Planned Features

  • Web Front End: A user-friendly interface to allow users to input their invoice details.
  • LLM-based Parsing: Utilize Language Model-based parsing to intelligently interpret and generate invoices from free text inputs.

🤔 Thoughts

It was a delightful weekend exercise! There's a lot of scope for improvement, bugs to fix and features to add. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome.