Generate Stripe invoice and send it by email — n8n Workflow

Low complexity⚡ Trigger5 nodes🏷️ Invoice Processing👁 1,881 viewsby Solomon

Overview

Generating Stripe invoices through the API can be tricky since it requires four steps to generate and send it via email to the customer.

With this workflow you can create Stripe invoices automatically and make Stripe send the invoices to the customer email.

How it works

To generate a Stripe invoice, you need to create a customer, specify the invoice items, create the invoice, and finalize it.

What should be a simple task involves multiple steps.

This workflow simplifies the process by provi

Nodes used

HTTP RequestStripe

Workflow Preview

Create Customer
Stripe | Invoice Items
Stripe | Create invoice
Stripe | Finalize invoice
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How it Works

  1. 1

    Trigger

    The workflow starts with a trigger trigger.

  2. 2

    Process

    Data flows through 5 nodes, connecting httprequest, manualtrigger, stripe.

  3. 3

    Output

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

Node Details (5)

HT

HTTP Request

httpRequest

#1
ST

Stripe

stripe

#2

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 generate-stripe-invoice-and-send-it-by-email 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": "Generate Stripe invoice and send it by email", "nodes": [...], ...}

Integrations

httprequestmanualtriggerstripe

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Nodes5
Complexitylow
Triggertrigger
Views1,881
CategoryInvoice Processing

Created by

Solomon

Solomon

@solomon

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httprequestmanualtriggerstripe
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