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Invoice

The problem​

You need a professional invoice that renders to PDF, has queryable line items, and supports payment tracking with deadlines.

The solution​

title: Invoice #2026-0042
summary: Cloud migration services — Phase 1
meta: | type: invoice | domain: finance | track: true

// Print layout
page: | size: A4 | margins: 2.54cm
font: | body: Inter | heading: Inter | size: 11pt
header: Acme Corp | align: left | size: 9pt
footer: Page {page} of {pages} | align: center | size: 8pt

section: Parties

contact: Acme Corp | role: Provider | email: billing@acme.co | phone: +1-555-0100
contact: GlobalTech Industries | role: Client | email: accounts@globaltech.co | phone: +1-555-0200

section: Line Items

| Description | Qty | Unit Price | Total |
| Cloud infrastructure setup | 1 | $15,000 | $15,000 |
| Data migration (500GB) | 1 | $8,000 | $8,000 |
| Security audit | 2 | $5,000 | $10,000 |
| Training sessions | 4 | $2,000 | $8,000 |

section: Summary

metric: Subtotal | value: 41000 | unit: USD
metric: Tax (8%) | value: 3280 | unit: USD
metric: Total Due | value: 44280 | unit: USD | color: green | weight: bold

section: Payment

deadline: Payment due | due: 2026-04-15 | status: pending
text: Wire transfer to Acme Corp, Account #****4521, Routing #****7890.
text: Late payments subject to 1.5% monthly interest.

track: | by: billing@acme.co

Step by step​

  1. Identity — title: and summary: identify the invoice. meta: with track: true enables the trust chain.
  2. Layout — page:, font:, header:, footer: control PDF rendering.
  3. Contacts — contact: blocks for both parties. These are queryable across all your invoices.
  4. Table — Standard table for line items. For templates, use each: items to make this dynamic.
  5. Metrics — metric: blocks for subtotal, tax, total. Queryable and renderable with emphasis.
  6. Deadline — deadline: for payment due date. Color-coded by proximity in rendered output.
  7. Track — track: enables the revision history.

Query it​

# Find all pending invoices
intenttext query ./invoices --type deadline --status pending --format table

# Find invoices for a specific client
intenttext query ./invoices --type contact --content "GlobalTech" --format json

# Total revenue across all invoices
intenttext query ./invoices --type metric --content "Total Due" --format csv

Render to PDF​

intenttext invoice.it --print --theme corporate
intenttext invoice.it --pdf --theme corporate

Template version​

Convert this to a reusable template. See Building Templates.

Next steps​