Tile installation invoice template — prep, waterproofing and area
Most of a tile invoice is preparation the customer cannot see once it is finished. These templates itemise it while it still exists.
An invoicing spreadsheet that opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets, or prints to PDF. Pre-filled with the fields a tile installation invoice needs, plus the payment terms this trade most often gets caught out by.
- Blank — the invoice fields, ready to fill in by hand.
- Auto-calculating — same sheet with subtotal, tax, deposit and balance due wired up. Formulas work in Excel and Google Sheets.
- Printable — a clean one-page layout to fill in or save as PDF.
How tile installation work actually gets paid
Tile bills per square foot, but the hours are in what happens before any tile is set: flattening the substrate, installing backer or membrane, and waterproofing a wet area. None of that is visible at the end, which is exactly why it must be itemised at the time — an invoice that shows only 'tile, 60 sq ft' invites a customer to compare it against a material price. A flood test on a shower pan is a day with no visible progress and needs to appear as work, because it is.
What a tile installation invoice must contain
- Invoice number, issue date, due date and the surfaces covered
- Square footage by surface: floor, wall, shower pan, niche, curb
- Tile size, material and layout pattern, with the waste percentage
- Substrate preparation: levelling compound, patching, board replacement
- Backer board or uncoupling membrane installed, by area
- Waterproofing system in wet areas, and the flood test performed
- Setting material and grout type and colour, with any sealing
- Trim, edge profile, transitions and thresholds by linear foot
Where tile installation invoices go unpaid
- Preparation absorbed into the per-square-foot rate and then compared to a tile price
- Flood test day read as a day nobody worked
- Large-format tile set on a substrate the customer declined to have flattened
- Customer-supplied tile arriving short, with the delay and re-order billed to you
The estimate this invoice bills against
An invoice is only as defensible as the estimate it came from. BidWand writes the estimate from a plain description of the job — labour, materials, exclusions and assumptions — so the numbers on this invoice are ones the customer already agreed to.
Draft the tile installation estimate behind this invoice
This generates the estimate, not the invoice — describe the job and you get the itemised figures to bill from. No email needed to see the first one.
What you get — see the format first
A complete estimate you can send to the customer, built from the rate you enter:
| Description | Qty | Unit | Unit price | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor — itemized by task | hrs | hour | your rate | — |
| Materials — with your markup applied | qty | ea / sq ft | cost + markup | — |
| Permits, disposal, access | — | — | — | — |
Plus a plain-English scope summary, assumptions (what had to be guessed), exclusions (what you are not doing — the section that prevents most change-order arguments), and a validity period. Printable, or send the link.
Every figure comes from the rate and markup you supply. We never fill in a market price for you.
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