No-code quickstart guide

Before you start using Stripe Invoicing, help your future customers understand your products and terms of service by establishing your business and customizing how your brand appears.

Brand your business

By default, customers can pay invoices with any of the payment methods that you’ve enabled in your Invoice template. If you’re a first-time user, Stripe automatically enables card, ACH bank transfer, and WeChat Pay payment methods. To enable additional payment methods, you need to activate them in your Payment methods settings.

In some situations, there might be restrictions that prevent payment methods from being used for an invoice. For instance, a payment method might only operate in one currency, or have limitations on the amount that can be paid. Stripe doesn’t automatically select a payment method when these limitations prevent it from being used. To learn more, see Payment methods.

Choose additional payment methods

You can create and send an invoice from the Dashboard. Invoices provide an itemized list of goods and services rendered, which includes the cost, quantity, and taxes. You can also use them as a tool to collect payment. Learn more about using the Dashboard.

Create and send an invoice

You can use the Invoice template to customize ​​the content of your invoices. Set a default memo, footer, numbering scheme, and determine your default payment terms. Because you know more about your customers and your business than Stripe does, make sure your invoices include all of the required information. See the full invoice customization guide at Customize invoices.

Configure the Invoice template

Manage tax information

Invoices move through different statuses from the time they’re created to when they’re paid. Easily track the status of an invoice on the Invoices page. To let your customer know that an invoice’s due date is approaching, quickly send them an email reminder. For a more information on tracking your invoices, see Manage invoices.

Track and manage your invoices

Invoicing Plus includes advanced features to automate how you collect and reconcile invoice payments.

Automate invoicing and get paid faster

You can automate Stripe Invoicing and get paid faster by choosing to automatically charge your customer’s payment method on file. If you’re a Plus user, let Stripe handle invoice recovery issues.

Automate invoicing

Close your books and account for revenue

Using automatic reconciliation means that you don’t need to expose your sensitive bank account details to users or manually reconcile open invoices with your bank. With auto-reconciliation for invoices, Stripe can:

• Match incoming payments with invoice amounts.
• Manage overpayment or underpayment, when the amount paid doesn’t match the invoice.
• Reduce the number of API calls required to transfer funds into Stripe.
• Manage payment retries on open invoices.

Close your books