Create or Find Stripe Customers and Automatically Generate Invoices — n8n Workflow

Medium complexity⚡ Trigger9 nodes🏷️ Invoice Processing👁 452 viewsby Audun

Overview

Save hours of manual billing work with this Stripe automation workflow!
Designed for entrepreneurs, SaaS founders, and online business owners, this template checks if a customer already exists in Stripe based on their email. If no customer is found, it automatically creates a new one, generates a draft invoice, adds a product line item using a Stripe Price ID, and finalizes the invoice — making it ready for payment.
This workflow helps ensure clean customer data and efficient billing without

Nodes used

HTTP Request

Workflow Preview

Get Stripe Customer

Customer exists?

Create customer

Create invoice

Finalize invoice

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When clicking ‘Test work…

Set invoice data

Set customer id

Add item to invoice

9 nodes9 edges

How it Works

1
Trigger
The workflow starts with a trigger trigger.
2
Process
Data flows through 9 nodes, connecting httprequest, if, manualtrigger.
3
Output
The workflow completes its automation and delivers the result to the configured destination.

Node Details (9)

HTTP Request

httpRequest

How to Import This Workflow

1Click Download JSON button on the right to save the workflow file.
2Open your n8n instance. Go to Workflows → New → Import from file.
3Select the downloaded create-or-find-stripe-customers-and-automatically-generate-invoices file and click Import.
4Set up credentials for each service node (API keys, OAuth, etc.).
5Click Test Workflow to verify everything works, then activate it.

Or paste directly in n8n → Import from JSON:

{ "name": "Create or Find Stripe Customers and Automatically Generate Invoices", "nodes": [...], ...}

Integrations

httprequestifmanualtriggerset

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Nodes9

Complexitymedium

Triggertrigger

CategoryInvoice Processing

Created by

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