Document Style

Customize the look of your estimates and invoices. The style you choose here applies to PDFs, shared links, and printed documents.

Available Styles

GetCost offers several document layouts to match your brand. Go to Settings | Style to browse and select a style. Swipe through the styles to preview each one, then pick the one you want.

Style Plan What it looks like
Default Free The plain starting layout, used until you pick something else.
Classic Paid Traditional document look with alternating shading on the line item rows.
Sleek Free Line items grouped into boxed sections with alternating shading.
Top Stripe Paid A colored stripe across the top of the page. Lets you set a background color.
Bold Paid The same top stripe layout, printed with larger text. Choose this one if you want a bigger font on your printed estimates and invoices.
Lite Paid A lighter, centered header with no row shading.
Highlight Paid Line items picked out in your accent color.
Left Accent Paid Left-aligned layout with the accent color running down the side.
Solid Paid Your business header block filled with solid color.
Fill Paid Color filled across the background of the document.
On the free plan you have Default and Sleek. Every other style, including Bold, needs Essential or higher.
Note: We don't currently support fully custom styles or removing the business address. The available layouts are the supported options at this time.

Bigger Text When Printing

There is no font size setting in GetCost. The text size is built into each style, so you change it by changing the style rather than by typing in a size.

Bold is the large-text style. Go to Settings | Style, swipe to Bold and select it, and your documents print with a noticeably larger font. Bold requires a paid plan.

Tip: Printing from a web browser? The browser's own print dialog also has a Scale setting — raising it to 110% or 125% enlarges everything on the page, whichever style you are using.
Existing documents keep their original look. A document remembers the style it was created with, so switching to Bold affects documents you create from now on. Create a new estimate to see the larger text.

Colors

Each style allows you to pick a custom color that is used for headings, accents, and highlights on your documents. Choose a color that matches your business branding so your estimates and invoices look consistent and professional.

Tip: Your business logo is set separately under Settings | Business Information. The logo and the style color work together to give your documents a polished, branded appearance.

Display Options

Using the More button at the bottom left of the style screen, you can adjust what information appears on your documents.

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Hide Details

Hide item quantities and prices to show only totals.

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Text Size

Set by the style itself, not by this button — pick Bold for a larger font.

Don't see the More button? It only appears for styles that support these options. The Default and Sleek styles do not — pick another style first and the button appears.

Hide Prices & Quantities

You can send a client a document that shows the work but not the pricing or the quantities behind it — useful when you want to quote a single total rather than itemize what everything costs, or when you'd rather not show how many hours or units a job takes.

  1. Open Settings | Style

    Use the top left menu, then tap Style.

  2. Choose a style that supports it

    Classic, Top Stripe, Bold, Lite, Highlight, Left Accent, Solid and Fill all support hiding pricing. The Default and Sleek styles do not.

  3. Tap More

    The More button is at the bottom left of the style screen.

  4. Tick the option you want, then apply

    Choose from the three options in the table below.

Option What your client sees
Hide Item Prices Description and quantity stay. The unit, the unit price and the line total are hidden, so a client sees what and how much of it but not what each line costs.
Hide Item Quantities Description stays, and so does the line total. The quantity, the unit and the unit price are hidden, so a client sees what each line costs but not the hours or units behind it.
Hide All Items No line items at all — just your description and the document total.
Note: Ticking Hide All Items turns off the other two, since there are no lines left to hide anything on.
Existing documents keep their original look. A document stores the style it was created with, so changing this setting applies to documents you create from now on — an estimate you made yesterday will still show its pricing. To check your change, create a new estimate and preview that one. (Duplicating an old document copies its old style too.)
Pick one, not both. Hide Item Prices and Hide Item Quantities overlap — each hides the unit price. Ticking both leaves only the description and the document total, which is what Hide All Items does more cleanly.
Tip: These options need a paid plan, because every style that supports them is a paid style. On the free plan you only have Default and Sleek, which don't offer them.

Where Style Is Applied

The style you choose controls the appearance of your documents everywhere your clients see them.

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PDFs

Downloaded and emailed PDF files use your selected style, colors, and logo.

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Shared Links

When clients open an estimate or invoice link, they see your styled document.

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Print

Printed documents reflect the same style and layout.

Note: PDF output cannot be customized beyond the style and color options available here. The style you select is what your clients will see.