Toggl-Invoicer, A Contractor Style Monthly Invoice Generator for Toggl

This is a monthly style invoice generator for contractors who use Toggl to track their time.

When I started using Toggl, I looked around at similar projects to this one had done, and none of them quite fit what I was looking for, so I decided to roll my own. I wanted something that would generate a LaTeX style invoice which could be manually edited or adjusted, then compiled the invoice to a PDF which could be sent to clients. Dockerizing the whole thing was the easiest way to avoid requiring a massive set of texlive dependencies to be installed.

Dependencies

Toggl-Invoicer runs in a docker container that includes all of its dependencies. A wrapper script is installed as "toggle-invoicer" that runs the command inside docker. Because of this, the only thing you need is docker.

A Makefile is included ot build the image and install/uninstall the wrapper script. You need "make" in order to use that. You could install the wrapper script by hand as well.

Installation

Either run make build, or, pull mschout/toggl-invoicer:latest from docker hub to get the docker image.

1. You should edit the CLI wrapper script in bin/toggl-invoicer-wrapper to reflect where you would like to store your invoices as well as where your config.ini is. I use Dropbox to sync my invoices and config across my machines, so the default paths use Dropbox.

2. Copy config.ini to the location you specified in the wrapper script and edit it accordingly. At a minimum, you must set your Toggl API key.

3. Either copy the bin/toggl-invoice-wrapper to a location in your $PATH of your choosing, or, run make install to install it to /usr/local/bin.

Usage

The wrapper script mounts your config file and invoices directory into the docker container when it runs. Because of this, you should not use the --invoice-dir option when running from the wrapper script. The usage here assumes the wrapper script is in use.

All commands include a --help option that explains their usage.

Environment Variables

The wrapper script recognizes the following Environment Variables:

TOGGL_INVOICE_TEMPLATE

If set and is the path to a file, this will be used as the XeLaTeX template that your invoice will be generated from, instead of template.tex from this distribution.

E.g.:

TOGGL_INVOICE_TEMPLATE=$HOME/etc/toggl/custom-template.tex

CONFIG_FILE

The path to config.ini on your system.

INVOICE_DIR

The path where invoices will ge stored.

Example Usage

Generate a new invoice for the current month

toggl-invoicer generate

Generate a new invoice for a specific month

You can generate an invoice for a specific month using YYYY-MM syntax to specify the month name.

toggl-invoicer generate 2018-02

Override the Invoice Number

The default is to generate the next invoice number in the sequence where the invoice number is the current year and a three digit sequence number. If you want to generate a specific invoice number you can use the --invoice-number option

toggl-invoicer generate --invoice-number 123456

Compile a .tex Invoice to PDF

You only need to provide the invoice number for the invoice to compile. The PDF will saved in the same directory as the .tex file.

toggl-invoicer compile 2018001