The Stripe invoice template you'll never need

A proper invoice for Stripe payments should include: your business name, address, and tax/VAT number; customer details (name, company, address); a sequential invoice number; line items with description, quantity, and price; tax/VAT breakdown; payment date; and total amount. Stripe receipts include none of this.

Yes, you can create invoices manually using a template for each Stripe payment. However, this requires copying payment details from Stripe, filling in the template, generating a PDF, and emailing it to your customer — for every single payment. At scale, this does not work.

Stripe Invoicing generates invoices with a standard Stripe template. It works well but adds 0.4% per invoice (capped at $2) on top of processing fees. You cannot customize the template design. Stripdo generates similar professional invoices for $39/year flat.

PDF is the standard format for invoices. It is universally readable, printable, and accepted by accountants and tax authorities worldwide. Stripdo generates PDF invoices with all required fields and emails them automatically.

Invoice requirements vary by country, especially around VAT. EU countries require VAT number, rate, and amount. Some countries require specific tax notations. Stripdo handles this automatically — including EU VAT reverse charge notation and export notation.

Invoices should use sequential, unique numbering (e.g., INV-001, INV-002). Numbers should never repeat and should not have gaps. Manual numbering across hundreds of payments is error-prone. Stripdo handles sequential numbering automatically.

With Stripdo Pro, yes. Your company logo appears on every invoice PDF alongside your business details. The Starter plan includes all other invoice features without the custom logo.

EU invoices must include: seller and buyer name and address, VAT identification numbers for both parties, a sequential invoice number, the date of issue, a description of goods or services, the net amount, applicable VAT rate and amount, and the gross total. For cross-border B2B sales, reverse charge notation is required. Stripdo includes all of these fields automatically.

Yes. UK invoices follow HMRC rules and must include your VAT registration number, the invoice date, a unique sequential number, your business name and address, the customer's name and address, a description of goods or services, the total excluding VAT, the VAT rate, and the total including VAT. The UK is no longer part of the EU VAT system, so reverse charge rules differ.

The US does not have a federal invoice format requirement like the EU. However, best practice is to include your business name, EIN or tax ID, customer details, a unique invoice number, date, line items, and total. For B2B transactions, your customer's accounting department will expect these fields to process payment.

Use a consistent prefix followed by a sequential number, such as INV-0001, INV-0002 or 2026-001, 2026-002. Many businesses include the year in the format. The key rules: numbers must be unique, sequential, and have no gaps. Tax authorities in most countries require this. Stripdo generates sequential numbers automatically.

If you serve international clients, invoices may need to be in the customer's language or at minimum include English alongside the local language. EU regulations generally require invoices to be understandable to the tax authority of the buyer's country. Stripdo generates invoices with standard fields that work internationally.