Save n8n Cloud invoices received in Gmail in Google Drive — n8n Workflow

Medium complexity Trigger11 nodes🏷️ Invoice Processing👁 3,181 viewsby Niklas Hatje

Overview

Who this is for This template is for everyone that wants to download their n8n Cloud invoices automatically as a PDF instead of downloading them manually. How it works This workflow checks your Gmail inbox for new n8n invoice emails from n8n's payment provider Paddle. Once it finds something, it converts the URL into a PDF using pdflayer and saves it in Google Drive. Setup Setup your Gmail and Google Drive credentials Create a free account at https://pdflayer.com/ Insert your pdflayer API key in

Nodes used

HTTP RequestGoogle DriveHTML

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Setup
1. Setup your Gmail and Google Drive credentials
1. Create a free account at https://pdflayer.com/
2. Insert your pdflayer API key into the `Setup` node
3. Insert the URL to the w
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How it Works

  1. 1

    Trigger

    The workflow starts with a trigger trigger.

  2. 2

    Process

    Data flows through 11 nodes, connecting filter, gmailtrigger, googledrive.

  3. 3

    Output

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

Node Details (11)

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HTTP Request

httpRequest

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Google Drive

googleDrive

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HTML

html

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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 save-n8n-cloud-invoices-received-in-gmail-in-google-drive 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": "Save n8n Cloud invoices received in Gmail in Google Drive", "nodes": [...], ...}

Integrations

filtergmailtriggergoogledrivehtmlhttprequestifsetsplitout

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Nodes11
Complexitymedium
Triggertrigger
Views3,181

Created by

Niklas Hatje

Niklas Hatje

@nik8n

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