Automate Payment Receipts: Email, Archive, and Track with Stripe and Google Workspace — n8n Workflow

Medium complexity⚡ Trigger11 nodes🏷️ Invoice Processingby Rahul Joshi

Overview

Description This workflow automates the process of retrieving Stripe invoices, validating API responses, generating payment receipts, sending them via email, storing PDFs in Google Drive, and appending details to a Google Sheet ledger. It also includes an error logging system to capture and record workflow issues, ensuring financial operations are both automated and reliable.

What This Template Does (Step-by-Step) 📋 Manual Trigger – Start the workflow manually by clicking Execute workflow. 🔗 Fe

Nodes used

Google SheetsHTTP RequestGoogle DriveGmail

Workflow Preview

Fetch Invoices
Description: Makes an authenticated request to the Stri
Send Receipt Email –
Description: Sends an email to the customer using the i
Download File
Description: Uses the invoice’s hosted PDF link (invoic
IF (Already Receipted?)
Description: Looks into the invoice metadata field rece
IF (Paid?)
Description: Evaluates whether the invoice is marked as
Action: Rout
Expand List
Description: Since Stripe returns a bundled list of inv
Append to Ledger
Description: Adds a new row in the “Payment Receipts” G
Upload Invoice PDF
Description: Uploads the invoice PDF into a specific Go
Action: S
Action: Logs workflow errors and failures to
Description: This Google Sheets append node serves as t
Action: Validates that the Stripe API returne
Description: This conditional node acts as a data quali
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When clicking ‘Execute w…
Fetch Invoices
E
Expand List
I
IF (Paid?)
I
IF (Already Receipted?)
Download File
Send Receipt Email
Upload Invoice PDF
Append to Ledger
Error Logging
C
Check API Response
11 nodes10 edges

How it Works

  1. 1

    Trigger

    The workflow starts with a trigger trigger.

  2. 2

    Process

    Data flows through 11 nodes, connecting gmail, googledrive, googlesheets.

  3. 3

    Output

    The workflow completes its automation and delivers the result to the configured destination.

Node Details (11)

GO

Google Sheets

googleSheets

#1
HT

HTTP Request

httpRequest

#2
GO

Google Drive

googleDrive

#3
GM

Gmail

gmail

#4

How to Import This Workflow

  1. 1Click Download JSON button on the right to save the workflow file.
  2. 2Open your n8n instance. Go to Workflows → New → Import from file.
  3. 3Select the downloaded automate-payment-receipts-email-archive-and-track-with-stripe-and-google-workspace file and click Import.
  4. 4Set up credentials for each service node (API keys, OAuth, etc.).
  5. 5Click Test Workflow to verify everything works, then activate it.

Or paste directly in n8n → Import from JSON:

{ "name": "Automate Payment Receipts: Email, Archive, and Track with Stripe and Google Workspace", "nodes": [...], ...}

Integrations

gmailgoogledrivegooglesheetshttprequestifmanualtriggersplitout

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Nodes11
Complexitymedium
Triggertrigger
CategoryInvoice Processing

Created by

Rahul Joshi

Rahul Joshi

@rahul08

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