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Placeholders you can drop into templated text (e.g. an Item's description). They resolve to live values at the point of use — for example, when an item is picked into a line on an invoice the placeholders are replaced using that invoice's dates.

FieldDescriptionResolved example
{{month-year}}The current month and year at the time the field resolves.e.g. June-2026
{{invoice date}}The Invoice Date of the invoice the line item is added to.e.g. 01/05/2026
{{due date}}The Due Date of the invoice the line item is added to.e.g. 28/05/2026
{{invoice number}}The invoice number of the host invoice. Use in email templates (subject/body). When typed into an Item description at edit time, the token is preserved as-is because the invoice number isn't assigned until save — it resolves later when the email template renders.e.g. INV-1024
{{customer name}}The name of the customer the invoice is addressed to. Same deferred-resolution rule as Invoice Number: kept literal until the email template renders.e.g. Alex Kurm
{{billing company}}The name of the Billing Company that issued the invoice. Use in email subject lines and bodies. Same deferred-resolution rule as Invoice Number / Customer Name: kept literal until the email template renders.e.g. SimpleBooks Pty Ltd
{{accounts email}}The Billing Company's accounts email (the address invoices are sent from). Same deferred-resolution rule as Billing Company.e.g. accounts@simplebooks.dev
{{invoice link}}The customer-facing public URL for viewing the invoice as a web page. Use when you need the raw URL string (e.g. inside an HTML anchor's href attribute).e.g. https://books.example.com/i/abc123…
{{invoice link button}}Same URL as {{invoice link}} but wrapped in an inline-styled HTML button — drop into the HTML email body as a clearly clickable call-to-action.e.g. View Invoice button

These tokens are case-insensitive and tolerant of inner whitespace. Type them verbatim into an Item description (or any field that supports them) and they will be replaced when the value is consumed.

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