Email receipts to billing email address

Edit:
I was annoyed.
Sadly Open AI (and I) are using MFA to authenticate. At least, closer. To automation. I only need to provide a one time password and press enter. The rest is now solved.

(Still newbie on this forum so cant share the link. I let chatGPT do the main part of the work for me.)

https://github.com/moggleif/openai-download-receipt-or-invoice

P.S. I might look into creating a script or so, to run in the browser or whatever, to get it automated even further, we will see.


OpenAI just have to check a box.

https://docs.stripe.com/payment-links/post-payment#send-email-receipts

Text from Stripe regarding send-email-receipts

Stripe can automatically send email receipts to your customers after successful payments. You can enable this feature with the email customers for successful paymentsoption in your email receipt settings. To customise your receipt colour and logo, go to the Branding settings.

To display custom text, use the description attribute on the PaymentIntent. Some examples include:

  • Description of goods or services provided
  • Authorisation code
  • Subscription information
  • Cancellation policies

Automatically send paid invoices!

In addition to ordinary receipts, Payment Links can generate paid invoices as proof of payment. Invoices have more information than receipts. For subscriptions, Stripe generates invoices automatically, but for one-off payments, you need to enable them.

To generate invoices, toggle Successful payments on in your Customer emails settings. Then, when creating a Payment Link, select Create an invoice PDF in the After payment tab. You can configure your invoice, including adding a memo, footer, and your tax ID in your invoice template settings.

After the payment completes, Stripe sends an invoice summary with links to download the invoice PDF and invoice receipt to the email address your customer provides during checkout. You can also view the invoice in the Dashboard or access it programmatically by listening to the invoice paid event through an event destination.

Pardon me…chatGPT said OpenAI just should do this

Unfortunately, there isn’t a way for an end-customer to ā€œturn onā€ Stripe’s automatic invoice or receipt emails yourself — that’s entirely controlled by the merchant’s Stripe settings. If you didn’t get an email receipt or invoice, the only thing you can do is ask the company to resend it or to enable Stripe’s Customer emails for successful payments.

Here’s what the merchant needs to do on their side to make sure you—and every customer—get a proper invoice or receipt automatically:

  1. Enable Customer emails
    In the Stripe Dashboard under Settings → Customer emails, they must toggle on Successful payments. This tells Stripe to email customers whenever a one-off payment succeeds.
  2. Generate an invoice PDF
    If they’re using a Payment Link (rather than a subscription), they also need to edit the Payment Link and, in the After payment tab, check Create an invoice PDF. They can customize the look (memo, footer, tax ID) in Settings → Invoicing → Invoice template.

Once they’ve done that, Stripe will automatically send you an email containing:

  • A brief invoice summary
  • A link to download both the full invoice PDF and the receipt
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+1 for this function. Would be a great time saver

So yeah… this looks like a big F*uck you from OpenAI.
Seriously… its not that difficult to toggle that feature in stripe.
Instead, me and milions of other users are forced to be reminded of a missing invoice from their accountant, then having to manually search for the invoice in the UI every month.
Seriously?
Sorry, but this is beginning to damage my calm.

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That’s what I’ll do too. n8n I’m looking at you.

More than a year later and this is still not implemented. Looking for another service now.

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+1 I’ve been using Claude AI for a long time, they have no problem sending me the receipts every mont on email.

This needs to be pinned to the top.

Need this!!!100% sure we need this. Surprised still don’t have that!

+1, this would help a lot. It’s a pain to navigate all the way into the stripe portal every time and download the receipt for bookkeeping every month.

Please implement this feature - or via API. Just any means that would allow automation of invoice processing.

Adding my +1. The queue is now officially longer than a NASA launch window.

+1 - you could save lots of time for accountants around the world

+1 on this, this would be a good option.

+1 PLEASE add this feature

Adding my vote. This is an essential feature for business and recordkeeping.

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+1 This is bare mimimum in 2025. An AI company not providing something like this… ridiculous.

Completely needed and necessary. +1

+1 that would really help. same issue here

Another +1 into the void. If you could hear us, you’d have done this basic accounting function.

Absolutely amazed at how this is still not solved in Q3 2025.
If the decision was up to me I’d consider ending our premium seats.
Why do I need to download these invoices manually every month??