Edge cases
Send an invoice in Spanish via text message
The message you send can be in Spanish. The invoice page and the PDF labels are in English, so the text should carry the amount and the due date in Spanish too.
Write the text in Spanish and be honest about the page
A customer who reads Spanish should not have to decode the amount from an English sentence. Write the SMS in Spanish, with the total and the timing in that language. The line you type can use Spanish descriptions, as this example does for the kitchen and the oven, because the parser cares about the numbers and the commas, not the dictionary. What you should not promise is a translated product. The invoice page says “Invoice”, “Bill to” and “Total due” in English, and the PDF does the same. Say that in the Spanish message so the English page is not a surprise. You still send the WhatsApp or the SMS yourself. InvoiceTXT does not translate and does not deliver the text.
State the total in the Spanish sentence
150 in the message should match three hours at 35 plus the oven at 45.
Warn them the page is in English
A single clause prevents a confused reply.
Keep the descriptions in the language they use for the job
“Limpieza de cocina” is clearer to Ana than a renamed English line.
Do not mix the due date
“A pagar al recibir” matches due on receipt. If you change one, change the other.
What to put on this invoice
- A greeting and the place or the job
- The amount in digits
- When you want to be paid, in Spanish
- The link, plus a note that the page is in English
Questions about this job
¿La factura se traduce sola?
No. El mensaje puede ir en español. La página y el PDF siguen en inglés.
¿Puedo escribir los conceptos en español?
Sí. Esta página de ejemplo lo hace. Revisa que las cantidades sigan siendo correctas.
¿Envían ustedes el WhatsApp?
No. Copias el enlace y lo pegas en tu propio chat.
El mensaje va en el idioma del cliente. La página de la factura, hoy, va en inglés. Dilo antes de que abran el enlace.
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